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The Motif Index: Bibliography.

Books with Motif Indexes in the Society Reference Library.

The Society is always on the lookout for additions to its library, especially with regard to Motif Indexes. Among the books that include a Motif Index, and the specific Type and Motif-Index books on hand either owned by the Society or that are available to the Society for reference, are the following:

AARNE, Antti and Stith THOMPSON.
1973 The Types of the Folktale. FF Communications No.184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
ABRAHAMS, Roger D.
1973 (1963) Deep Down in the Jungle. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company. Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia.
BAKER, Ronald L.
1982 Hoosier Folk Legends. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
BAUGHMAN, Ernest W.
1966 Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America. The Hague: Mouton & Co.
BEN-AMOS, Dan & MINTZ, Jerome R.
1970 In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov [Shivhei ha-Besht]; The Earliest Collection of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
BORDMAN, Gerald.
1972 Motif-Index of the English Metrical Romances. FF Communications No.190. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
BRIGGS, Katharine.
1976 An Encyclopedia of Fairies; Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures. New York: Pantheon Books.
—. 1978 The Vanishing People. Fairy Lore and Legends. New York: Pantheon Books.
—. 1980 Nine Lives. The Folklore of Cats. New York: Pantheon Books.
BRIGGS, Katharine and TONGUE, Ruth L. (eds.)
1969 (1965) Folktales of England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
BRUNVAND, Jan Harold.
1993 The Baby Train, & Other Lusty Urban Legends. Includes an unnumbered type-index. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
CHASE, Richard.
1943 The Jack tales. Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
CHILDERS, J. Wesley.
1948 Motif-Index of the "Cuentos" of Juan Timoneda. Bloomington: Indiana University Publications. Folklore Series No. 5.
CHRISTIANSEN, Reidar Th.
1992 The Migratory Legends. A Proposed List of Types with a Systematic Catalogue of the Norwegian Variants. FF Communications No. 175. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
CLARKE, Kenneth Wendell.
(1958) A Motif-Index of the Folktales of Culture-Area V West Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis (photocopy)
CROSS, Tom Peete.
1969 Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature. New York: Kraus Reprint Co.
DORSON, Richard M.
1959 American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
—. 1973 America in Legend. Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books.
—. 1976 Blood-Stoppers and Bear-Walkers. Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
—. 1974 Buying the Wind. Regional Folklore in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
—. 1981 Folk Legends of Japan. Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company: Publishers.
DORSON, Richard M (ed.)
1975 Folktales Told around the World. Includes indexes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
—. 1983 Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Essays by various authors. Extensive chapter notes, bibliography, and indexes.
EBERHARD, Wolfram (ed.)
1976 (1965) Folktales of China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
FOWKE, Edith.
1976 Folklore of Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
—. 1979 Folktales of French Canada. Toronto: NC Press Limited.
—. 1986 Tales Told in Canada. Toronto: Doubleday Canada limited.
—. 1994 Legends Told in Canada. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.
GRANGER, Byrd Howell.
1977 A Motif Index for lost mines and treasures applied to redaction of Arizona legends, and to lost mine and treasure legends exterior to Arizona. FF Communications No.218. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica; Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
IKEDA, Hiroko.
1971 A Type and Motif Index of Japanese Folk-Literature. FF Communications No.209. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
JAUHIAINEN, Marjatta.
1998 The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates. FF Communications No. 267. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
KIRTLEY, Bacil F. A.
1971 Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
KLYMASZ, Robert B.
1973 Folk Narrative Among Ukrainian-Canadians in Western Canada. Ottawa: National Museum of Canada.
KUUSI, Matti.
1972 Towards an International Type-System of Proverbs. FF Communications No.211. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
KVIDELAND, Reimund, and Henning K. SEHMSDORF (eds.)
1996 Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
LEACH, Maria.
1979 (1964) The Luck Book. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
—. 1961 Noodles, Nitwits, and Numskulls. New York: Scholastic Book Services.
—. 1977 (1959) The Thing at the Foot of the Bed, and Other Scary Tales. New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
—. 1974 Whistle in the Graveyard. Folktales to Chill Your Bones. New York: The Viking Press.
LEACH, Maria (ed.)
1972 Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. One volume edition.
LIDOW, John.
1978 Swedish Legends and Folktales. Berkeley: University of California Press.
MACDONALD, Margaret Read.
1982 The Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children. Detroit: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. and Gale Research Inc.
MASPERO, Gaston.
2002 Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Hasan El-Shamy. Santa Barbara: ABC-CDTO, Inc.
MEGAS, Georgios A.
1970 Folktales of Greece. Translated by Helen Colaclides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
NYERGES, Anton N.
1952 The Folktale; A Type and Motif Analysis, Motif Index, and Type Index [of Cheremis Folklore] pp.13-117 in Thomas A. SEBEOK (q.v.), Studies in Cheremis Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
O SUILLEABHAIN, Sean and Reidar Th. CHRISTIANSEN.
1967 The Types of the Irish Folktale. FF Communications No.188. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
POSTMA, Minnie.
1974 Tales from the Basotho. Austin: University of Texas Press. American Folklore Society Memoir Series Vol. 59.
RAMANUJAN, A. K.
1991 Folktales from India. A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. New York: Pantheon Books.
RANKE, Kurt (ed.)
1966 Folktales of Germany. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
ROBERTS, Warren.
1952 The Proverb [in Cheremis Folklore] pp. 118-169 of Studies in Cheremis Folklore, edited by Thomas A. SEBEOK. (q.v.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
EL-SHAMY, Hasan M.
—. 1980 Folktales of Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
—. 1995 Folk Traditions of the Arab World; A Guide to Motif Classification. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
—. 1999 Tales Arab Women Tell: And the Behavioral Patterns they Portray. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
—. 2006 A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
EL-SHAMY, Hasan M. (ed.)
2002 Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt. By Gaston Maspero. Santa Barbara: ABC-CDTO, Inc.
SIMPSON, Jacqueline.
1979 (1972) Icelandic Folktales and Legends. Berkeley: University of California Press.
TAFT, Michael.
(1983) Motif Index for the Tall Tales of British Columbia. Victoria: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Photocopy; supplied by the Provincial Archives in Victoria. 4 single-sided pages. [Note: Although cited with the text the MI was not published with Taft’s book Tall Tales of British Columbia. (Sound Heritage Series Number 39)]
TAYLOR, Archer.
1972 (1954) An Annotated collection of Mongolian Riddles. Taipei: The Orient Culture Service. Pages 135-239 of Comparative Studies in Folklore; Asia-Europe-America.
THOMPSON, Stith.
1955-1958 Motif-Index of Folk Literature. A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends. Rev. & enlarged ed. 6 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
—. 1971 (1929) Tales of the North American Indians. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
—. 1977 The Folktale. Berkeley: University of California Press.
THOMPSON, Stith and Jonas BALYS.
1958 Republished 1976 [A Motif Index of] The Oral Tales of India. Westport: Greenwood Press.
UTHER, Hans-Jörg.
4004 The Types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography.
    Part I: Animal Tales, Tales of Magic, Religious Tales, and Realistic Tales, with an Introduction.
    Part II: Tales of the Stupid Ogre, Anecdotes and Jokes, and Formula Tales.
    Part II: Tales of the Stupid Ogre, Anecdotes and Jokes, and Formula Tales.
—. 2008 Handbuch zu den “Kinder und Hausmärchen” der Brüder Grimm. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
VAN DEUSEN, Kira.
1999 Raven and the Rock. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
WALLS, Jan & Yvonne. (tr.)
1980 West Lake; a collection of folktales. Chinese Tales from Hangzhou. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co.; San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc.
WATERMAN, Patricia Panyity.
1987 A Tale-Type Index of Australian Aboriginal Oral Narratives. FF Communications No. 238. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
WURZBACH, Natascha and Simone M. SALZ.
1995 Motif Index of the Child Corpus: The English and Scottish Popular Ballad. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

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