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Folk Tales and Myths
« on: June 07, 2004, 12:55:14 AM »
I never even got around to taking the folklore class at BYU, but I found this website yesterday and have spent all day reading it.  I feel deeply imbedded in this ultimate manifestation of my fantasy-geekiness.

But man, this site is great- it's so well organized and HUGE.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Do any of you know more about the Aarne-Thompson classification system, and/or know of anything interesting that I could read on it?  
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Re: Folk Tales and Myths
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 01:26:51 AM »
I've heard it mentioned a couple of times in folklore classes, but we never focused on it.

This is a great site, Fuzzy.  Thanks for the link.
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Re: Folk Tales and Myths
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2004, 08:59:42 AM »
Hey, this is great. I've run across this site before but never remembered it later. Another one for you is www.surlalunefairytales.com, which has annotated versions of the most popular fairy tales.
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