 TITLE        Dictionary of literary themes and motifs / Jean-Charles
                Seigneuret, editor ... [et al.]
 PUBLISHER    New York : Greenwood Press, c1988.
 Leyburn-Reference      PN43 .D48 1988 v. 1

(An alphabetical catalog [Adolescence, Afterlife, Alchemy, Alienation... La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Birth of the Hero... Dance, Dance of Death, Death and the Individual... Stupidity, Sublimity, Terror...]; for each entry, a discussion of occurrences and relations, differing treatments in specific time periods, and a short bibliography)

 AUTHOR       Thompson, Stith, 1885-
 TITLE        Motif-index of folk-literature; a classification of narrative
                elements in folk-tales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval
                romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends by
                Stith Thompson.
 PUBLISHER    Bloomington, Ind., 1932-36.
 Leyburn-Reference      PN921 .T476 v. 1-3

("...a comprehensive classification of the materials in all kinds of traditional narrative... (but not) superstitions, customs, religious beliefs, riddles or proverbs..." Origin tales, transformations, magical objects and powers, ghosts --the material of tales, some of which has made its way into literature. One might use Stith Thomson [as the compendium is called inn folklore circles] if the text under examination had folkloric content --fairies punishing, la belle dame sans merci, etc. An alphabetical index in the last volume provides cross references --e.g., all occurrences of 'mouse' or 'fairy'.)