Greek and Roman fables (FFCommunications No. 56), supplemented by the oriental fables listed in Chauvin's Arabian Bibliographie. The literary history of these tales is well known, so that no attempt was made to supply all of them with bibliographical apparatus, but only to place them definitely in the body of fable literature. In all, some five hundred fables appear in the classification.
New Edition
Certain additions have been suggested by Professor Ben Perry's monumental Aesopica, though the expected volume of comparative notes has not been available.
Periodicals Excerpted.
First Edition
Mélusine.
Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde.
Journal of American Folklore
Danske Studier
New Edition
Anuario de la Sociedad Folklorica de Mexico
Les Archives de Folklore
Volkskundliche Bibliographie
Annual bibliographies in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America and in Southern Folklore Quarterly.
Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde
Arv
Folklore (Naples)
A number of local folklore journals from South America, the United States, and France.
Books and periodicals which have been explored with some thoroughness in the search for motif-studies are indicated in the general bibliography by an asterisk. Works which are arranged according to the present index are marked specially (☉). They need no page reference.
