Folklore -- Classification
Here are entered lists of types, themes, motifs, variants, etc. of folklore material compiled with the aim of arranging them in certain clearly defined groups, as well as works discussing the principles upon which systems of classification may be based.
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Folk literature -- Themes, motives
- Folklore -- Italy -- Sicily -- Classification
- Folklore -- West (U.S.) -- Classification
- Folklore -- Themes, motives
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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)- Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) (10 volumes; London: Privately printed by C. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924-1928), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, ed. by N. M. Penzer, trans. by C. H. Tawney, contrib. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara: or, Ocean of the Streams of Story (2 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by J. W. Thomas, 1880-1884), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, trans. by C. H. Tawney
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
- Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
- Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1961), by Bacil F. Kirtley (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
- Sicilianische Märchen, Aus dem Volksmund Gesammelt (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1870), by Laura Gonzenbach, contrib. by Otto Hartwig (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Folklore archives -- Canada -- Directories- Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States (1997 edition), by Peter Bartis and Stephanie A. Hall (HTML at LOC)
- Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide (1995), by Stephanie A. Hall (illustrated HTML at LOC)
- Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States (1997 edition), by Peter Bartis and Stephanie A. Hall (HTML at LOC)
- Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara Walker (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Alan Dundes, ed. by Simon J. Bronner
- Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #55; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1997), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy (page images at unt.edu)
- Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society (partial serial archives)
- A Book of Folk-Lore, by S. Baring-Gould (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ethnology in Folklore (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892), by George Laurence Gomme
- The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, by Thomas Keightley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk Tales From Many Lands (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1910]), by Lilian Gask, illust. by Willy Pogány (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folklore as an Historical Science (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), by George Laurence Gomme (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- An Introduction to Folk-Lore (London: David Nutt, 1895), by Marian Roalfe Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
- The Magic of the Horse-Shoe. With Other Folk-Lore Notes, by Robert Means Lawrence (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London: Printed for the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., 1881), by John Aubrey, ed. by James Britten
- Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale, by Edward Clodd (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Die Polyphemsage in der Volksüberlieferung (in German; Helsinki: Frenckellska Tryckeri-Aktiebolaget, 1904), by Oskar Hackman
- Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life (3 volumes; Chicago and Milwaukee: J. H. Yewdale and Sons co., c1903), ed. by Cora Linn Daniels and C. M. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts (continually updated anthology), ed. by D. L. Ashliman (HTML at Pitt)
- Greek Folk-Songs From the Ottoman Provinces of Northern Hellas (with essays on paganism and folklore; second edition; London: Ward and Downey, 1888), ed. by John S. Stuart-Glennie, trans. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
- The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry into Fairy Mythology, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Strange Story Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
- Symbolism of the East and West (London: G. Redway, 1900), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations (London et al.: G. Routledge And Sons, 1894), ed. by E. F. King
- Myths and Dreams (second edition, revised; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Edward Clodd
- The Natural Genesis (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1883), by Gerald Massey
- This Way to Christmas (based on the 1916 edition, with commentary), by Ruth Sawyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Curiosities of Olden Times (London: J. T. Hayes; New York: Pott and Amery, 1869), by S. Baring-Gould
- Curiosities of Olden Times (revised and enlarged edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould
- De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Launcelot D. Dowdall
- The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- We Two in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Decima Moore and Frederick Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.