The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780198605096
First sentence: AARNE-THOMPSON INDEX, shorthand for The Types of the Folktale, the classification system for international folk tales developed and first published in 1910 by the Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne under the title Verzeichnis der Marchentypen (Index of Types of Folktale).