Need inspiration? Stith Thomas online!
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mme_hardy If you're a scholar of folklore, Stith Thomas is an honored name. He created Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. This is and was the Dewey Decimal system for folklore.
T11.4.4. Love through seeing marks of lady’s teeth in fruit which she has bitten.
T11.6. Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven.
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. (Tove‘s magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love.
A full six volumes of Stith Thomas will set you back a pretty penny. But the University of Alberta has put it online! Hurrah!
T11.4.4. Love through seeing marks of lady’s teeth in fruit which she has bitten.
T11.6. Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven.
T85.4.1. Ring of Fastrada. (Tove‘s magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love.
A full six volumes of Stith Thomas will set you back a pretty penny. But the University of Alberta has put it online! Hurrah!
