Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon

Politics & Social Sciences

Stith Thompson

Warren E. Roberts

Social Sciences

Academia Scientiarum Fennica

<p>These migratory legends, most of them on religious themes, are divided into 8 categories, the biggest of which tell of fairies, of witches and witchcraft, of ghosts and revenants, of spirits of rivers, lakes and the sea. In addition to summaries of the contents there is a type index containing references to printed sources and the manuscript collection and catalogues of the Norwegian Folklore Institute in Oslo.</p>

The Migratory Legends: A Proposed List of Types with a Systematic Catalogue of the Norwegian Variants

Reidar Th. Christiansen

<p>The death of Baldr and its aftermath comprise the central moment of Scandinavian mythology. This book attempts to make sense of that story in the context of its thirteenth century recording by paying close attention to the texts themselves rather than to hypothetical background in cult or ritual. It elucidates both the literary and probable socio-historical context, and in connection with the latter it draws special attention to the fact that Baldr's story does not end with his death but always involves acts of vengeance, thus suggesting an involvement with bloodfeud.</p>

Murder and Vengeance Among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology (FF Communications, 262)

John Lindow

James Fenimore Cooper's landscapes in the leather-stocking series and other forest tales (Sarja-ser. Humaniora)

Valtiala, Nalle

This book studies the structure and style of orally transmitted fairy tales from Eastern Morocco in Berber and dialectal Arabic. Drawing on materials collected in his own fieldwork and other sources, the author pays special attention to the aesthetics of the fairy tale as understood by Max Lüthi and to the analysis of tale-specific formulae. Two hitherto unpublished Figuig Berber fairy tales are appended, as is a comparison of two versions of an Eastern Riffian story which, though collected independently at an interval of 60 years, show remarkable similarities.

A Study of Eastern Moroccan Fairy Tales (Folklore Fellows' Communications, 274)

Maarten Kossmann

The Black Gentleman :Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion

Ülo Valk

Songs of the Border People: Genre, Reflexivity, and Performance in Karelian Oral Poetry

Lotte Tarkka

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Academia Scientiarum Fennica publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Academia Scientiarum Fennica