Antti Aarne

:"The Aarne-Thompson system catalogues some 2500 basic plots from which, for countless generations, European and Near Eastern storytellers have built their tales. As Europeans and Near-Easterners travelled to the New World, the Far East, Africa, and other distant places, their tales migrated as well, often flourishing in their new environments. Hence, the Aarne-Thompson system encompasses tales found around the world." (Ashliman 1987 p ix)

REFERENCES

Antti Aarne, ''The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography,'' The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki 1961 ISBN 9514101324.

Ashliman, D.L., 1987 ''A Guide to FolkTales in the English Language'' Greenwood Press.

Uther, Hans-Jörg 2004. ''The Types of International Folktales : A Classification and Bibliography'', Parts I-III : the ATU classification system

EXTERNAL LINKS

Folktale Types - an explanation of the AT-number system.

D.L. Ashliman, "Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts"

Structural Analysis of Variants of Tale Type 361 : an example of the Aarne-Thompson analytic method

Reflections on International Narrative Research on the Example of the Tale of the three Oranges (AT 408)

Classifying folktales - The Third Revision of the Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index

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