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Siberian peoples represented in Holmberg's Siberian Mythology and in several important monographs.

Persian literary tales like the Thousand and One Days, analyzed in Chauvin.

Volumes on Semitic, Armenian, and Indic Mythology from The Mythology of All Races.

New Edition

Eberhard and Boratav's types of the Turkish folktales, an exhaustive study of an important field.

Neuman's large motif-index of Talmudic-Midrashic Literature, opening up much biblical and other Jewish material.

Theodor Gaster's Thespis and Oldest Stories in the World, which explore some Near East material difficult of access.

Thompson-Balys, Motif and Type-Index of the Oral Tales of India. Comprehensive — over 200 works indexed.

Bødker's notes on the Panchatantra, from his edition of an old Danish translation.

The Buddhist world explored anew in Malalasekera's Dictionary of Pali Proper Names.

(d) The Far East

First Edition

For China, Chavannes' Cinq cent contes, mentioned above (Buddhistic), Werner's Myths and Legends of China and Ferguson's Chinese Mythology.

For Japan, Mitford's rather inadequate collection.

Scott's Indo-Chinese Mythology.

New Edition

Eberhard's Typen chinesischer Märchen, with its extensive coverage of ancient and modern texts in Chinese.

Graham's new Ch'uan Miao collection, for which I have furnished the type-index.

Hiroko Ikeda's extensive analysis of both published and unpublished Japanese tales.

Zong In-Sob's new Folk Tales from Korea.

Hatt's study of Asiatic influences in American Folklore.

(e) Oceania

First Edition

For Indonesia, DeVries's Volksverhalen uit Oost Indië, with its extensive comparative notes, as well as special studies such as those by Voorhoeve and Coster-Wijsman.

Fansler's Filipino Folktales, with his comparative notes.

The general Pacific area, as covered in Dixon's Oceanic Mythology.