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  • The trick is knowing what your Aarne-Thompson type is.

    100 Things About Me yuki_onna 2008

  • All my poetry involving folkloric themes will be included, plus a series of false Tale Types modeled on the Aarne-Thompson system that will link the poems together.

    A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects yuki_onna 2007

  • That’s a version of the tale called “The Runaway Pancake,” classified by folklore scholars as Aarne-Thompson type 2025.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • This story of the little boy puncturing the pretensions of the emperor’s court has parallels from other cultures, categorized as Aarne-Thompson folktale type 1620, although the tale itself has no identified oral sources.

    The September 2007 Bear Market in NASA Temperature "Pasts" « Climate Audit 2007

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