Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Volume 6.2: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends Revised edition by Thompson, Stith (1960) Hardcover

by Stith Thompson

"This monumental work has now become... the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars." -- Southern Folklore Quarterly

"A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection." -- Volkskunde

"An invaluable aid to students and scholars... " -- Reference & Research Book News

Indiana University Press, with the generous support of the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, is pleased to announce the republication of this folklore classic, in honor of the centenary of the American Folklore Society.

Hardcover

First published January 22, 1960

About the author

Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 13, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral) for cataloging individual motifs.