Stith Thompson

Stith Thompson Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist".

He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature'', a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The folktale
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1946
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    Tales of the North American Indians
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1966
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    The oral tales of India
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1958
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    Our heritage of world literature
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1942
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    One hundred favorite folktales
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1968
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    Four symposia on folklore
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1976
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    Motif-index of folk-literature ; a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends.
    by Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
    Published 1955
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    Motif-index of Mediaeval Spanish exempla.
    by Keller, John Esten
    Published 1949
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