Stith, thy name resounds throughout the ages.
Today was spent trying to familiarise people with The Types of the Folk Tale by Antii Aarne and Stith Thompson, which tries to present describe and annotate every folktale type (an abstraction gleaned from comparison of known versions through which can be used to locate and identify subsequently encountered versions and locate them in a larger context of a narrative repertoire), in part through reference to their motifs (for which Thompson also created an index, The Motif-Index of Folk Literature). Much sort of hands-on things today.
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