Studies in folklore : in honor of Distinguished Service Professor Stith Thompson /
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Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press,
[1972, c1957]
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Biographical sketch of Stith Thompson.
- The brave tailor in Danish tradition, by L. Bodker.
- The sisters and the troll: notes to a folktale, by R. T. Christiansen.
- Celtic tales from Cape Breton, by M. Leach.
- A medieval story and its Irish version, by J. Szo?ve?rffy.
- The emergence myth in native North America, by E. Wheeler-Voegelin and R. W. Moore.
- Hugh Miller, pioneer Scottish folklorist, by R. M. Dorson.
- Classifying performance in the study of verbal folklore, by W. H. Jansen.
- Folklore in the novels of Thomas Deloney, by W. E. Roberts.
- Toward a statistical contingency method in folklore research, by T. A. Sebeok.
- Toward a definition of formal style, with examples from Shawnee, by C. F. Voegelin and J. Yegerlehner.
- A miscellany of tune notes, by S. P. Bayard.
- Some Norwegian contributions to a Danish ballad, by W. E. Richmond.
- Abraham Lincolnʹs When Adam was created, by F. L. Utely.
- American analogues of the couvade, by W. D. Hand.