thread: 2006-03-09 : Those things in The Dragon Killer
On 2006-03-10, Kaitlin BH wrote:
I think somebody else mentioned the Stith Thompson folktale motif index above; there's also the Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index, which was intended to catalog and classify all known folktales by "type" (not the most well-defined word ever). It's kind of Eurocentric - I think they have like five variants on Cinderella - but it's still useful and nifty for folklorists like me. I believe wikipedia has an article on Antti Aarne, the guy who's primarily responsible for spreading the idea of tale types.
