Folktale Studies
Aarne, Antti, and Thompson, Stith. The
Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography
. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1961.
Ashliman, D. L.
A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.
Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature series. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Thompson, Stith. 1946. The
Folktale.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Still the best introduction to the folktale.