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Title
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Beastly Folklore
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Joseph D. Clark
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Creator
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Clark, Joseph D.
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:16:05Z
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2002-07
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1968
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:16:05Z
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Date Issued
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1968
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Abstract
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This book is a folksy poor man's Motif Index. As Clark writes in the foreword, These sketches are presented in a popular and folksy manner (iii). He mentions Stith Thompson's Motif-Index and The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore specifically and provides two pages of bibliography at the end. The thirty-one sketches, listed in a T of C on v, start each with a prose summary of several pages, followed by Derivative Names, Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, and Superstitions and Motifs in two sections using references first to Brown and then to Stith Thompson. The prose summaries are written in lively fashion. Here is a paragraph from the chapter on the fox. Well! Well! This legendary son of a bitch! What can you do about his treachery toward the innocent, the helpless, the unsuspecting, the foolish, and the gullible? Sermonize all you will concerning his quick-wittedness and derpravity, the fox retains his foxiness (52). The derivative names for fox run for two-and-a-half pages and include such things as foxglove, foxhole, foxtail saw, and fox and geese. Proverbs on the fox include The fox smells his own stink first; The fox may grow grey, but never good; set a fox to keep one's geese (not a good idea!); At length the fox turns monk; and references to Aesop's FWT and FG. Superstitions and Motifs include When fox shams death, he catches a crow (K827.4); Fox leads an ass to the lion's den, but he himself is eaten (K1632); and -- new to me but delightful -- Fox confesses to the cock and then eats him (K2027). There is good stuff here!
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Identifier
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8266 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Metuchen, NJ
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Subject
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QL89.C55 1968
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Secondary
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole