Table of Contents

Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Introduction, 2 The Cinderella story in antiquity, 3 Snow White and related tales, 4 Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast, 5 The Obstacle Flight, 6 The ‘innocent slandered maid’, 7 Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard, 8 Magicians and their allies, 9 Between living and dead, 10 Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite, 11 Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone, 12 Fairytale into romance, 13 Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence, 14 Conclusions, Appendix 1 Some difficult cases, Appendix 2 Two ancient hero tales, Appendix 3 Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens, Appendix 4 AT Type 552 and the Orestes story, Notes, Bibliography, Index of folktale types, General index

About the Author

Graham Anderson