Author:Stith Thompson
American scholar of folklore
Works[edit]
- Old English poems. Translated into the original meter together with short selections from old english prose (1918), co-authored with by Cosette Faust [1], [2]
- European tales among the North American Indians. A study in the migration of folk-tales (1919) [3]
- Tales of the North American Indians (1929) [4]
- The new handbook of English (1939), co-authored with Malcolm McLeod [5]
- The Folktale (1946) [6]
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local legends (1955–58), in 6 vols.
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