Folktales Told Around the World

Richard M. Dorson

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Année: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780226375342
• Sujet: Social Sciences
• Sous-sujet: Sociology

All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.

Index of Motifs

All references are to Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk Literature, 6 vols. (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955–58) unless otherwise indicated as follows. Motifs from other indexes: B = Ernest W. Baughman, A Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America (Indiana University Folklore Series, No. 20: The Hague, 1966); and K = Bacil F. Kirtley, “A Motif-Index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1955). Suggested motifs: m = Arsenio Manuel for the Philippines; n = Philip A. Noss for the Gbaya of Cameroun; p = Paul Powlison for the Yagua of Peru; and s = Harold A. Scheub for the Xhosa of South Africa; and st = John Milbury-Steen for the Gbande of Liberia.

Motif Number	Motif Title	Tale Title	Country
A155	Animals of the gods	Treasure, Envy, and Witchcraft	Peru
A165.1	Animals as attendants of god	Treasure, Envy, and Witchcraft	Peru
A418	Deity of particular mountain	Treasure, Envy, and Witchcraft	Peru
A511.1.9	Culture hero born from egg	Kondoy	Mexico
A526.7	Culture hero performs remarkable feats of strength and skill	Kondoy	Mexico
A571	Culture hero asleep in mountain	Kondoy	Mexico
A641	Cosmic egg	The Lake of Langui	Peru
A811	Earth brought up from bottom of p...