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Swan Maidens: Folktales of Type 400*
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I used these resources when researching the annotations for this fairy tale. Most should be available through your local library, but I have included links to the titles on Amazon.com for further reading.

Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Tales, Then and Now: More Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.
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Anderson, Graham. Fairytale in the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2000.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover or paperback.

Ashliman, D. L.  A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Ashliman, D. L.  The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html.
Accessed on 10 December 1998.

Bernheimer, Kate.  Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Women Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales.  New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
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Bettelheim, Bruno.  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
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Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Byatt, A. S. "Happy ever after." The Guardian. 3 January 2004.
URL: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/
0,12084,1115048,00.html

Accessed on 6 January 2004.

Canepa, Nancy. From Court to Forest : Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1999.
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Canepa, Nancy. Out of the Woods : The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1997.
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Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die. New York: Basic, 1999.
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Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. A Dictionary of Symbols, Second Edition. Translated by John Buchanan-Brown. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Cirlot, J. E. Jack Sage, trans. A Dictionary of Symbols, 2nd ed. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.

Clouston, William Alexander. Popular Tales and Fictions. Christine Goldberg, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Crane, Thomas. Italian Popular Tales. New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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de Vos, Gail and Anna E. Altmann. New Tales for Old : Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
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Einfield, Jann, ed. Fairy Tales. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
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Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton University, 2001.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.

Internet Movie Database.
URL: http://www.imdb.com.
Accessed on 8 May 2003.

Jones, Alison. Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. Edinburgh; New York: Larousse, 1995.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Leach, Maria.  Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Leavy, Barbara F. In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender. New York: New York University Press, 1994.
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Lindemans, Micha F., editor. Encyclopedia Mythica. 1995-2003.
URL: http://www.pantheon.org/
Accessed on 2 January 2004.

Luthi, Max. Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1976.

Matthews, Borg, trans. The Herder Symbol Dictionary. Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications, 1986.

Mueller, Gerhard O. W. "The Criminological Significance of the Grimms' Fairy Tales." Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. Ruth Bottigheimer, editor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 217-227.

Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition.New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 1990 Edition.  New York: Lexicon Publications, 1990.

Olderr, Steven. Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1986.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Austin: University of Texas, 1968.
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Tatar, Maria M., ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
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Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1946.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy Stories." Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1970, 1996.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Warner, Marina.  From Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
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WordNet: A Lexical Dictionary for the English Language. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Accessed on 15 December 2003.

World Wildlife Federation website. Press Release 02/08/01: "My Feathered Valentine." 1995-2003.
URL: http://www.worldwildlife.org
Accessed on 5 January 2004.

Yolen, Jane. Touch Magic. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack.  Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library, 1989.
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Zipes, Jack. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988, 2002.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford University, 2000.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. When Dreams Came True. London: Routledge, 1998.
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In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara F. Leavy

Great Fairy Tale Tradition by Jack Zipes

The Folktale by Stith Thompson

The Classic Fairy Tales by Iona and Peter Opie

New Tales for Old by Gail de Vos

Tales, Then and Now by Altman and  de Vos

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall edited by Kate Bernheimer

The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

Fairy Tales in the Ancient World by Anderson

The Witch Must Die by Sheldon Cashdan

The Folktale by Stith Thompson

Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Crane

Swan-Maidens by Edwin Sidney Hartland

Werewolves and Swan-Maidens by John Fiske

 

 
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