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Jacobs.—Science of Folk-tales.
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APPENDIX.




List of Folk-Tale Incidents common to European Folk-Tales, with Bibliographical References.

The following tentative list of folk-tale incidents does not profess to give all the incidents or separate "actions" in the plots of the whole corpus of the European folk-tale. It merely attempts to bring together such incidents as have been commented on by the great masters of the folk-tale—the Grimms, Prof. Köhler, M. Cosquin, etc.—as being common to several of the European folk-tales. Incidents in italics occur in drolls: some few occur likewise in the more serious tales, and are then entered twice. No attempt has been made to include the mediæval stories and legends as, e.g., in Jacques de Vitry's Exempla, or even the more subtle details of the beast-tales: these last have already been named and bibliographised. Complete folk-tales, story-types, radicles, and formulæ, involving a succession and concatenation of incidents, are also excluded. I have given a tentative list in the Handbook of Folk-lore, pp. 117-135.




Abbreviations.

A. R. = Archæological Review.

Benf. = Benfey, Pantschatantra, 1859.

C. = E. Cosquin, Contes le Lorraine, 1886.

Ch. = F. J. Child, English and Scotch Ballads, 1882. seq.

Cln. = W. C. Clouston, Book of Noodles, 1889.

Cr. = Crane, Italian Popular Tales.

G. = Grimm, Household Tales, tr. Mrs. Hunt, 1885.

J. K. = Jones and Kropf, Magyar Folk-tales, 1890.

Ka. = R. Köhler in Archiv fur slavischen Philologie.

Kb. = R. Köhler in Bladé, Contes agenois.

Kg = R. Köhler in Gonzenbach, Sizilianische Marchen, Bnd. ii.

Kj. = R. Köhler in Jahrbuch für eng. und rom. Philologie,

Kk. = R, Köhler in Kreutzwald, Estnische Marchen.

Km. = R. Köhler in Miltisine, t. ii, or (with Rom. figures) in Marie de France, Lais, ed. Warncke.

Ko. = R. Köhler in Orient und Occident.

Lcp. = A. Lang in Cupid and Psyche.

Lg. = A. Lang in Grimm-Hunt, Introd.

Lm. = A. Lang in Custom and Myth.

R. = W. S. Ralston, Russian Folk-tales.

S. = M. Stokes, Indian Fairy Tales.

T. = Temple, Wide-awake Stories, 1885.


In the majority of cases the names I have given to the incidents will suffice to identify them with students of the folk-tale for whom I have written. In any case a reference to the source indicated will decide.