CLT 3378 Final Exam Review Sheet Review Terms Antti Aarne He was a Finnish folklorist He developed the method of comparative folklore tales which later became the Aarne Thompson classification system of classifying folktales Stith Thompson He was an American scholar of folklore He further developed the method of comparative folklore tales which became the Aarne Thompson classification system of classifying folktales folktale type Helps folklorists identify recurring patterns Type index organizes folktales into broad categories like Animal Tales Fairy Tales Religious Tales Aarne Thompson classification system uses a number system to categorize certain types of tales folktale motif Folktales categorized by type are further subdivided by motif patterns Aarne Thompson classification system uses a number system to categorize tales into type and motif AT Folktale Type 720 The Aarne Thompson type 720 my mother slew me my father ate me Most commonly recognized with the german fairy tale The Juniper Tree The Rose Tree an English fairy tale and The Crow s Nest a Hungarian fairytale are other such tales recognized under this type The Crow s Nest A Hungarian fairy tale categorized under the AT Folktale Type 720 Poor family mom kills son cooks him into cabbage stew sister wraps up bones of brother in linen cloth and puts them in a hollow tree boy turns into crow and sings song He sings song to men who give him cloak walking stick and mill stone Gives cloak to sister walking stick to father and drops mill stone and mothers head killing her The Juniper Tree A German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm categorized under the AT Folktale Type 720 Woman wishes for a child as red as blood and as white as snow near a Juniper Tree She has child and dies a few days after and is buried under the Juniper tree Father remarries and has daughter Marjory Step mother wants her daughter to inherit money So step mother offers son an apple While reaching for it she slams the box s heavy lid on him beheading her step son She then ties the head back onto body Step mom tells Marjory to give boy a box on the ear if he does not share his apple She boxes him on the ear and his head falls off Mother makes a stew of the boy and Marjory buries the bones beneath the Juniper tree A bird flies out and sings a song to men who give the bird a gold chain red shoes and a mill stone Bird gives gold chain to father red shoes to sister and drops millstone on mothers head The brother then returns with a puff of smoke and brother sister and father all have dinner The Rose Tree A English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs categorized under the AT Folktale Type 720 A man has a daughter by his first wife and son by his second Step mother hated the daughter Step mother said she would comb daughters hair Step mother cuts off her head with axe She then stewed her heart and liver Husband said it tasted strange Brother buried sister under a rose tree and wept under it every day A white bird appeared and sang its song to men who gave her red shoes a gold watch and a millstone Bird gave shoes to boy watch to father and dropped mill stone on step mother killing her Cupid A character in the novel The Golden Ass Cupid is the Roman god of love and the son of Venus He is sent to make Psyche fall in love with ugliest creature on earth Cupid falls in love with Psyche and marries her Psyche is never to look at Cupid Psyche A character in the novel The Golden Ass Psyche was a princess in Greek mythology She is a beautiful girl hated by Venus Married to Cupid She goes through tasks to win acceptance of Venus She opens a cosmetic box and falls into slumber Revived by Cupid Turned into goddess of the soul Lucius Apuleius From the Metamorphoses of Apuleius or The Golden Ass Lucius is the protagonist of the Latin novel Lucius practiced magic and while trying to turn himself into a bird he truned into an ass He finds salvation through the intervention of the goddess Isis AT Folktale Type 425 The Aarne Thompson type 425 search for the lost husband Most commonly recognized by the Brothers Grimm German fairy tale The Singing Springing Lark The Singing Springing Lark German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm A man asks what his daughters would like One wants diamonds another pearls and the youngest wants a singing springing lark Man sees a lark in tree but Lion guards it Lion gives it to man who promises to give the lion the first thing that meets him as he arrives home Youngest daughter greets man first Youngest daughter goes to Liion s castle At night lions turn to humans She marries the lion who traded her father the lark At older sister s wedding in which the girl and the lion are attending candle light hits lion and turns him into dove for 7 years Every seven steps wife takes dove will drop a feather and a drop of blood to let her track him She loses the trail and asks the sun where the dove is Sun gives her a casket She asks moon Moon gives her egg She asks night wind and east and west wind She asks south wind and says that dove is lion again and is fighting a dragon Night wind tells her to strike lion and dragon with a reed to return them to human Dragon turns to princess who takes the man to her castle to marry him The girl follows and finds dress in casket and sells it to princess at the price of a night with man But the princess drugs the man and he sleeps Next the girl finds a chicken with twelve gold chicks and sells them to the princess at price of night with man Man does not drink sleeping drug and the girl and man escape home on a griffin The Tale of Tulisa Originated in India It is an AT type 425 search for the lost husband Tulisa marries a secretive man Three old women advise Tulisa to question the man When Tulisa insists on knowing his name he tells her it is Basnak Dau and turns into a snake and sinks into a stream The castle and the wealth disappear A squirrel tells Tulisa that the man s mother would recover her son s the king of the snakes wealth if the son s mortal wife could be persuaded to ask him his name This was accomplished by Sarkasukis in the form of an old woman Tulisa plans on getting the wealth back Tulisa then crosses a river of snakes to reach the nest of the bird of Huma so she could hatch its egg in her bosom She then serves in the palace of the queen The Huma hatched and picked ou the green snake s eyes that laid on the …
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