Details

Subject(s)

• Folklore—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Tales—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Fairy tales—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Editor

• Haase, Donald [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Encyclopedias [Browse]

Summary note

Provides alphabetically arranged entries on folk and fairy tales from around the world, including information on authors, subjects, themes, characters, and national traditions.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1057-1121) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Guide to Tale-Type, Motif, Migratory Legend, and Ballad References Used in the Entries
• Guide to Related Topics
• Introduction
• Aarne, Antti (1867-1925)
• Adaptation
• Advertising
• Aesop (sixth century BCE)
• Afanas'ev, Aleksandr (1826-1871)
• African American Tales
• African Tales
• Age
• Aladdin
• Albanian Tales
• Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
• Alcover, Antoni Maria (1862-1932)
• Alexander, Lloyd (1924-2007)
• Ali Baba
• Amades, Joan (1890-1959)
• Amano Yoshitaka (1952- )
• Anansi
• Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)
• Andersen, Hans Christian, in Biopics
• Anderson, Walter (1885-1962)
• Andersson, Christina (1936- )
• Anecdote
• Animal Bride, Animal Groom
• Animal Tale
• Animation
• Anno Mitsumasa (1926- )
• Anthropological Approaches
• Anti-Fairy Tale
• Anti-Semitism
• Aphorisms
• Apuleius, Lucius (c. 124-c. 170 CE)
• Arabian Nights
• Arabian Nights Films
• Archetype
• Archives
• Arnim, Bettina von (1785-1859)
• Arnim, Gisela von (1827-1889)
• Art
• Asbjømsen, Peter Christen (1812-1885)
• Asturias, Miguel Angel (1899-1974)
• Atwood, Margaret (1939- )
• Aucassin et Nicolette
• Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d' (1650/51-1705)
• Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, Comtesse d' (d. c. 1700)
• Australian and Aotearoan/New Zealand Tales
• Authenticity
• Avery, Frederick 'Tex' (1908-1980)
• Aztec Tales
• Baba Yaga
• Bachelier, Anne (1949- )
• Balázs, Béla (1884-1949)
• Ballad
• Bârlea, Ovidiu (1917-1990)
• Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937)
• Barthelme, Donald (1931-1989)
• Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
• Basile, Giambattista (1575-1632)
• Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919)
• Bawdy Tale
• Bear's Son
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beauty and the Beast (Television Series)
• Bechstein, Ludwig (1801-1860)
• Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo (1836-1870)
• Beech Mountain Jack Tale
• La Belle et la Běte (1946)
• Benavente, Jacinto (1866-1954)
• Benfey, Theodor (1809-1881)
• Bernard, Catherine (c. 1663-1712)
• Beskow, Elsa (1874-1953)
• Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990)
• Bible, Bible Tale
• La bibliothèque bleue
• Bilibin, Ivan (1876-1942)
• Birth
• Das blaue Licht (1932)
• Block, Francesca Lia (1962- )
• Blood
• Bluebeard
• Bluebeard Films
• Bly, Robert (1926- )
• Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
• Böhl de Faber, Cecilia (1796-1877)
• Bolte, Johannes (1858-1937)
• Boratav, Pertev Naili (1907-1998)
• Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)
• Bošković-Stulli, Maja (1922- )
• Brentano, Clemens (1778-1842)
• Briggs, Katharine M. (1898-1980)
• Broadside
• Bronté, Charlotte (1816-1855)
• Brothers
• Brothers Grimm in Biopics
• Broumas, Olga (1949- )
• Browne, Anthony (1946- )
• Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson (1849-1924)
• Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)
• Burton, Tim (1958- )
• Busk, Rachel Harriette (1831-1907)
• Byatt, A.S. (1936- )
• Bye Bye Chaperon Rouge (1989)
• Le cabinet des fées
• Cabrera, Lydia (1899-1991)
• Calvino, Italo (1923-1985)
• Cannibalism
• Cante Fable
• Čapek, Karel (1890-1938)
• Capuana, Luigi (1839-1915)
• Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
• Carter, Angela (1940-1992)
• Cartoons and Comics
• Castroviejo, Concha (1910-1995)
• Cat
• Cautionary Tale
• Cazotte, Jacques (1719-1792)
• Celtic Tales
• Chain Tale
• Chamisso, Adalbert von (1781-1838)
• Chamoiseau, Patrick (1953- )
• Changeling
• Chapbook
• Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400)
• Childhood and Children
• Children's Literature
• Chinese Tales
• Chukovsky, Kornei (1882-1969)
• Cinderella
• Cinderella Films
• Cinderfella (1960)
• Clarke, Susanna (1959- )
• Classical Antiquity
• Clergy
• Clothing
• Cocchiara, Giuseppe (1904-1965)
• Collecting, Collectors
• Collodi, Carlo (1826-1890)
• Coloma, Luis (1851-1915)
• Colonialism
• Colors
• The Company of Wolves (1984)
• Comparative Method
• Conduit Theory
• Contamination
• Conte de fées
• Context
• Coover, Robert (1932- )
• Correia, Hélia (1949- )
• Coyote
• Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887)
• Crane, Walter (1845-1915)
• Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798-1854)
• Cross-Dressing
• Crowley, John (1942- )
• Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
• Cumulative Tale
• Cupid and Psyche.
• Dadié, Bernard Binlin (1916- )
• Dahl, Roald (1916-1990)
• Dance
• Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897)
• Davenport, Tom (1939- )
• Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)
• De Lint, Charles (1951- )
• De Morgan, Mary (1850-1907)
• Dean, Pamela (1953- )
• Death
• DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
• Dégh, Linda (1920- )
• Delarue, Paul (1889-1956)
• Deledda, Grazia (1871-1936)
• Deulin, Charles (1827-1877)
• Devil
• Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
• Didactic Tale
• Diffusion
• Diop, Birago (1906-1989)
• Disability
• Disney, Walt (1901-1966)
• Donoghue, Emma (1969- )
• Doré, Gustave (1832-1883)
• Dorson, Richard M. (1916-1981)
• Dragon
• Duffy, Carol Ann (1955- )
• Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953)
• Dumas, Philippe (1940- )
• Dundes, Alan (1934-2005)
• Dutch Tales
• Duvall, Shelley (1949- )
• Dvořrák, Antonín (1841-1904)
• Dwarf, Dwarves
• Editing, Editors
• Egyptian Tales
• Eichendorff, Joseph Freiherr von (1788-1857)
• Ekman, Fam (1946- )
• El Dorado
• Elf, Elves
• Ende, Michael (1929-1995)
• English Tales
• Epic
• Erdrich, Louise (1954- )
• Erotic Tales
• Ershov, Pyotr (1815-1869)
• Espinosa, Aurelio M. (1880-1958)
• Estonian Tales
• Ethnographic Approaches
• Etiologic Tale
• Ever After (1998)
• Ewald, Carl (1856-1908)
• Ewing, Juliana Horatia (1841-1885)
• Exemplum, Exempla
• Fable
• Fabliau, Fabliaux
• Faerie and Fairy Lore
• Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole (1903-1963)
• Fairy, Fairies
• Fairy Tale
• Fakelore
• False Bride
• Family
• Fantasy
• Father
• Feminism
• Feminist Tales
• Fēngshén Yanyì
• Ferré, Rosario (1938- )
• Fieldwork
• Film and Video
• Finnish Tales
• Fisherman and His Wife
• Folk
• Folklore
• Folktale
• Food
• Forbidden Room
• Fouqué, Friedrich de la Motte (1777-1843)
• Fractured Fairy Tales (1959-1964)
• Frame Narrative
• Franz, Marie-Louise von (1915-1998)
• Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (1852-1930)
• Freeway and Freeway II (1996, 1999)
• French Canadian Tales
• French Tales
• Freud, Sigmund (1856-1938)
• Frobenius, Leo (1873-1938)
• Frog King
• Frost, Gregory (1951- )
• Froud, Brian (1947- )
• Function. v. 2. G-P
• Gaarder, Jostein (1952- )
• Gág, Wanda (1893-1946)
• Gaiman, Neil (1960- )
• Galland, Antoine (1646-1715)
• García Márquez, Gabriel (1928- )
• Garner, Alan (1934- )
• Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)
• Gay and Lesbian Tales
• Gender
• German Tales
• Gesta Romanorum
• Ghost Story
• Gilgamesh
• Glinka, Mikhail (1804-1857)
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
• Gonzenbach, Laura (1842-1878)
• Gozzi, Carlo (1720-1806)
• Grace, Patricia (1937- )
• Graphic Novel
• Grass, Günter (1927- )
• Greek Tales
• Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta Persse (1852-1932)
• Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863)
• Grimm, Ludwig Emil (1790-1863)
• Grimm, Wilhelm (1786-1859)
• Gripari, Pierre (1925-1990)
• Gripe, Maria (1923- )
• Grundtvig, Svend (1824-1883)
• Hair
• Hamilton, Anthony (1646-1720)
• Hamilton, Virginia (1936-2002)
• Hansel and Gretel
• Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908)
• Harry Potter Films
• Hartzenbusch, Juan Eugenio (1806-1880)
• Harun al-Rashid (766-809)
• Hauff, Wilhelm (1802-1827)
• Hau'ofa, Epeli (1939- )
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
• Hay, Sara Henderson (1906-1987)
• Helakisa, Kaarina (1946-1998)
• Helvig, Amalie von (1776-1831)
• Henson, Jim (1936-1990)
• Hesse, Hermann (1877-1962)
• Historic-Geographic Method
• Hoban, Russell (1925- )
• Hoffmann, E.T.A. (1776-1822)
• Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874-1929)
• Holbek, Bengt (1933-1992)
• Honko, Lauri (1932-2002)
• Hopkinson, Nalo (1961- )
• Housman, Laurence (1865-1959)
• Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
• Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
• Hybridity, Hybridization.
• Ihimaera, Witi (1944- )
• Illustration
• Imbriani, Vittorio (1840-1886)
• Inca Tales
• Incantation
• Incest
• Indian Ocean Tales
• Infertility
• Informant
• Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)
• Initiation
• Innocenti, Roberto (1940- )
• Internet
• Intertextuality
• Into the Woods
• Inuit Tales
• Iranian Tales
• Ispirescu, Petre (1830-1887)
• Italian Tales
• Jack Tales
• Jacobs, Joseph (1854-1916)
• Janosch (1931- )
• Jansson, Tove (1914-2001)
• Japanese Popular Culture
• Japanese Tales
• Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965)
• Jātaka
• Jest and Joke
• Jewish Tales
• Jones, Diana Wynne (1934- )
• Jones, Terry (1942- )
• Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)
• Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
• Kalevala
• Karadřzić, Vuk Stefanović (1787-1864)
• Kathasaritsagara
• Keller, Gottfried (1819-1890)
• Khemir, Nacer (1948- )
• The Kind and the Unkind Girls
• Kinder- und Hausmärchen
• King
• Kirikou et la sorcière (1998)
• Kittelsen, Theodor (1857-1914)
• Köhler, Reinhold (1830-1892)
• Korean Tales
• Kreutzwald, Friedrich Reinhold (1803-1882)
• Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-2005)
• Kushner, Ellen (1955- )
• La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695)
• La Force, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de (c. 1650-1724)
• La Llorona
• Laforet, Carmen (1921-2004)
• Lagerkvist, Pär (1891-1974)
• Lagerlöf, Selma (1858-1940)
• Lane, Edward W. (1801-1876)
• Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
• Latin American Tales
• Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929- )
• Lee, Tanith (1947- )
• Legend
• Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie (1711-1780)
• Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)
• Lhéritier de Villandon, Marie-Jeanne (1664-1734)
• Lindgren, Astrid (1907-2002)
• Linguistic Approaches
• Literary Fairy Tale
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Lochhead, Liz (1947- )
• Loorits, Oskar (1900-1961)
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
• Lubert, Marie-Madeleine de (c. 1710-c. 1779)
• Lüthi, Max (1909-1991).
• MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
• Machado y Alvarez, Antonio (1848-1892)
• Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949)
• Magic Helper
• Magic Object
• Magical Realism
• Maguire, Gregory (1954- )
• Mailly, Jean, Chevalier de (c. 1724)
• Malerba, Luigi (1927- )
• Märchen
• Mardrus, Joseph Charles (1868-1949)
• Marie de France (fl. 1160-1190)
• Marriage
• Martín Gaite, Carmen (1925-2000)
• Matiřcetov, Milko (1919- )
• Matute, Ana María (1926- )
• Maya Tales
• Mayer, Charles-Joseph, Chevalier de (1751-1825)
• McKillip, Patricia A. (1948- )
• McKinley, Robin (1952- )
• Megas, Georgios A. (1893-1976)
• Méliès, Georges (1861-1938)
• Memorate
• Memory
• Men
• Mermaid
• Metafiction
• Metaxa-Krontera, Antigone (1905-1972)
• Mhlophe, Gcina (1958- )
• Middle Ages
• Mirror
• Miyazaki Hayao (1941- )
• Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
• Mizuno Junko (1973- )
• Moe, Jørgen (1813-1882)
• Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921)
• Momaday, N. Scott (1934- )
• Monogenesis
• Moral
• Mother
• Mother Goose
• Mother Holle
• Motif
• Motifeme
• Müller, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)
• Munro, Alice (1931- )
• Murat, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de (1670-1716)
• Musäus, Johann Karl August (1735-1787)
• Music
• Music and Musical Instruments
• Myth
• Mythological Approaches
• Namjoshi, Suniti (1941- )
• Napoli, Donna Jo (1948- )
• Nasreddin
• Nationalism
• Native American Tales
• Naubert, Benedikte (1756-1819)
• Négritude, Créolité, and Folktale
• Nesbit, E. (1858-1924)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
• Nielsen, Kay (1886-1957)
• Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)
• Nonsense Tale
• North American Tales
• Novalis (1772-1801)
• Novel
• Novella
• Numbers
• Nyblom. Helena (1843-1926)
• Nyström, Jenny (1854-1946)
• Ocampo, Silvina (1903-1993)
• Oehlenschläger, Adam (1779-1850)
• Ogre, Ogress
• Oicotype
• Once upon a Mattress
• Opera
• Opie, Iona (1923- ) and Opie, Peter (1918-1982)
• Oral Theory
• Oral Tradition
• Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE).
• Pacific Island Tales
• Panchatantra
• Pantomime
• Parable
• Parody
• Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966)
• Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)
• Pear ta ma 'on maf (The Land Has Eyes) (2004)
• Peasant
• Peau d'řane (Donkey Skin) (1970)
• Pedagogy
• Pérez Galdós, Benito (1843-1920)
• Performance
• Perodi, Emma (1850-1918)
• Perrault, Charles (1628-1703)
• Peter Pan Films
• The Piano (1993)
• Pig
• Pitrè, Giuseppe (1841-1916)
• Pitzorno, Bianca (1942- )
• Piumini, Roberto (1947- )
• Pizarnik, Alejandra (1936-1972)
• Planché, James Robinson (1796-1880)
• Poetry
• Pogorel'sky, Antony (1787-1836)
• Politics
• Polívka, Jiřrí (1858-1933)
• Polygenesis
• Popeye the Sailor
• Portuguese Tales
• Postmodernism
• Pourrat, Henri (1887-1959)
• Pratchett, Terry (1948- )
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Prince
• Princess
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Propp, Vladimir (1895-1970)
• Proverbs
• Prøysen, Alf (1914-1970)
• Psychological Approaches
• Pú Sōnglíng (1640-1715)
• Puck
• Pullman, Philip (1946- )
• Punishment and Reward
• Puppet Theater
• Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799-1837)
• Puss in Boots. v. 3. Q-Z
• Queen
• Race and Ethnicity
• Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939)
• Ranke, Kurt (1908-1985)
• Raud, Eno (1928-1996)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Rego, Paula (1935- )
• Reiniger, Lotte (1899-1981)
• Religious Tale
• Reynard the Fox
• Richter, Ludwig (1803-1884)
• Riddle
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
• Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (1837-1919)
• Rodari, Gianni (1920-1980)
• Róheim, Géza (1891-1953)
• Röhrich, Lutz (1922-2006)
• Le roi et l'oiseau (The King and Mister Bird) (1980)
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)
• Rowling, J.K. (1965- )
• Rumi, Jalal al-Din (1207-1273)
• Rushdie, Salman (1947- )
• Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
• Russian Tales
• S., Svend Otto (1916-1996)
• Saga
• Saint's Legend
• Salmelainen, Eero (1830-1867)
• Salomone-Marino, Salvatore (1847-1916)
• Salon
• Sand, George (1804-1876)
• Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
• Sarnelli, Pompeo (1649-1724)
• Scandinavian Tales
• Schami, Rafik (1946- )
• Schenda, Rudolf (1930-2000)
• Schwind, Moritz von (1804-1871)
• Scieszka, Jon (1954- )
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Ségur, Sophie, Comtesse de (1799-1874)
• Seki Keigo (1899-1990)
• Sendak, Maurice (1928- )
• Sex, Sexuality
• Sexton, Anne (1928-1974)
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
• Sheherazade
• Sherman, Delia (1951- )
• Shoe
• Shrek and Shrek II (2001, 2004)
• Shua, Ana Maria (1951- )
• Shvarts, Evgeny (1897-1958)
• Silent Films and Fairy Tales
• Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948- )
• Simple Forms
• Simpleton
• Sindbad
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991)
• Sisters
• Slavic Tales
• Sleeping Beauty
• Smith, Kiki (1954- )
• Snow White
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
• Sociohistorical Approaches
• Soldier
• Solinas Donghi, Beatrice (1923- )
• Sorcerer, Sorceress
• South Asian Tales
• Soviet Fairy-Tale Films
• Spanish Tales
• Spiegelman, Art (1948- )
• Spinning
• Splash (1984)
• Stahl, Caroline (1776-1837)
• Stamps
• Steig, William (1907-2003)
• Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
• Storm, Theodor (1817-1888)
• Storytelling
• Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480-1558)
• Strindberg, August (1849-1912)
• Structuralism
• Sukasaptati
• Swan, Anni (1875-1958)
• Swan Maiden.
• Tale Films
• Swan Maiden
• Tailor
• Taketori monogatari
• Tale Type
• Tall Tale
• Tang Kristensen, Evald (1843-1929)
• Tawada Yōko (1960- )
• Taylor, Edgar (1793-1839)
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'ich (1840-1893)
• Television
• Tenèze, Marie-Louise
• Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)
• Terayama Shūji (1935-1983)
• Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
• Theater
• Thief, Thieves
• Thief of Bagdad Films
• Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)
• Thumbling, Tom Thumb
• Thurber, James (1894-1961)
• Tieck, Ludwig (1773-1853)
• Till Eulenspiegel
• Time and Place
• Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892-1973)
• Tolstoy, Lev (1828-1910)
• Topelius, Zacharias (1818-1898)
• Tourism
• Tournier, Michel (1924- )
• Transformation
• Transgression
• Translation
• Trauma and Therapy
• Trickster
• Trnka, Jiřrí (1912-1969)
• Trueba, Antonio de (1819-1889)
• Tutuola, Amos (1920-1997)
• Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
• Twins
• Ubbelohde, Otto (1867-1922)
• Uncle Remus
• Undine
• Unfinished Tale
• Ungerer, Tomi (1931- )
• Urban Legend
• Urform
• Utopia
• Valenzuela, Luisa (1938- )
• Valera, Juan (1824-1905)
• Variant
• Verdaguer, Jacint (1845-1902)
• Vess, Charles (1951- )
• Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de (c. 1695-1755)
• Violence
• Virgin of Guadalupe
• Volkov, Aleksandr (1891-1977)
• Walker, Alice (1944- )
• Walker, Barbara G. (1930- )
• Walt Disney Company
• Warner, Marina (1946- )
• Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)
• Werewolf, Wolf, Wolves
• Wieland, Christoph Martin (1733-1813)
• Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
• Willow (1988)
• Windling, Terri (1958- )
• Wish
• Witch
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Woman Warrior
• Women
• Wonder Tale
• Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
• Wossidlo, Richard (1859-1939)
• Wú Chéng'ēn (c. 1500-1582)
• Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962)
• Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
• Yep, Laurence (1948- )
• Yolen, Jane (1939- )
• Young Adult Fiction
• Zelinsky, Paul O. (1953- )
• Zipes, Jack (1937- )
• Zur Mühlen, Hermynia (1883-1951).

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Greenwood encyclopedia of folktales & fairy tales

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