A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège's "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood"

Ziolkowski, Jan M.

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“…Thus, all three analyses identified Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Grandmother and Catterinella as a single tale type that is distinct from The Wolf and the Kids, which folklorists believe to be a more distantly related tale [11] . In accordance with the chronological record, relationships within the ATU 333 group indicate that Little Red Riding Hood and the Story of Grandmother are descended from a common ancestor that existed more recently than the last ancestor they share with the 11 th century Liège poem, [40] . The position of the Grimms' version of Little Red Riding Hood supports historiographical evidence that it is directly descended from Perrault's earlier tale (via a literate informant of French Huguenot extraction) [37] .…”

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“…When the aunt/uncle discovers her deception, (s) he comes to her house at night and devours her in bed. Although these tales were recorded long after Perrault published his version, a rediscovered 11 th century poem written in Latin by a priest in Liège provides intriguing evidence that a story similar to Little Red Riding Hood was circulating in parts of western Europe in medieval times [40] . The poem, which purports to be based on a local folktale, tells of a girl who wanders into the woods wearing a red baptism tunic given to her by her godfather.…”

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The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Tehrani

2013

PLoS ONE

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Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuities evident in the oral traditions associated with different cultures. According to the ‘historic-geographic’ school, it is possible to classify similar tales into “international types” and trace them back to their original archetypes. However, critics argue that folktale traditions are fundamentally fluid, and that most international types are artificial constructs. Here, these issues are addressed using phylogenetic methods that were originally developed to reconstruct evolutionary relationships among biological species, and which have been recently applied to a range of cultural phenomena. The study focuses on one of the most debated international types in the literature: ATU 333, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. A number of variants of ATU 333 have been recorded in European oral traditions, and it has been suggested that the group may include tales from other regions, including Africa and East Asia. However, in many of these cases, it is difficult to differentiate ATU 333 from another widespread international folktale, ATU 123, ‘The Wolf and the Kids’. To shed more light on these relationships, data on 58 folktales were analysed using cladistic, Bayesian and phylogenetic network-based methods. The results demonstrate that, contrary to the claims made by critics of the historic-geographic approach, it is possible to identify ATU 333 and ATU 123 as distinct international types. They further suggest that most of the African tales can be classified as variants of ATU 123, while the East Asian tales probably evolved by blending together elements of both ATU 333 and ATU 123. These findings demonstrate that phylogenetic methods provide a powerful set of tools for testing hypotheses about cross-cultural relationships among folktales, and point towards exciting new directions for research into the transmission and evolution of oral narratives.

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The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Tehrani

2013

PLoS ONE

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“…The so-called "Finnish school" of folktale research assumes (Krohn, 1971) that by discovering complete life histories of folktales and studying many variants of an oral tale, it is possible to find an Urmärchen that has passed over into other versions (Ziolkowski, 1992). Moreover, researchers have found that similar folktales have been told in various cultural contexts and historical circumstances.…”

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“…Versions of the popular "Little Red Riding Hood" were told and even published as early as the year 1024 (Ziolkowski, 1992) but, for instance, Bettelheim (1976) assumes that myth-related tales can originate from far earlier periods of human existence. Similarly, Gabriel (1991a) sees corporate myths as surrounded by the various versions of stories and corporate lore.…”

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Beyond the metaphor: The morphology of organizational decline and turnaround

Lamberg¹,

Pajunen

2005

Human Relations

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This study is based on the thesis that Vladimir Propp's (1928/2001) theory of folktale structure functions not only as a morphology of folktales, but also as a structural, deep-level model of any process that includes crisis and recovery. We essentially suggest that corporate decline and turnaround processes can be emplotted into a folktale-like structure that supports Propp's theory and thereby helps uncover deep-level mechanisms governing the process. The developed model describes seven mechanisms that drive the organization from initial strategic harmony to disharmony, and furthermore to the construction of a new strategic harmony, thus creating a perspective for the interpretation of long-term organizational decline and turnaround processes. Theoretical and practical implications are offered.

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“…Since several variants do not mention a red hood or a similar piece of clothing as attribute of the protagonist, the conjecture was raised that this was Perrault's invention, later imitated by the Grimms. However a tale written in Latin by Egbert de Liège in the 11 th century, De puella a lupellis seruata (About a Girl Saved from Wolf Cubs) [43], arguably prefiguring some characteristics of AT 333, features a red tunic which is not merely ornamental but plays a role in the events. The girl had received it as a baptismal gift from her godfather.…”

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Storytelling Variants: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood

Lima

Furtado

Feijó

2015

Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015

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Abstract.A small number of variants of a widely disseminated folktale is surveyed, and then analyzed in an attempt to determine how such variants can emerge while staying within the conventions of the genre. The study follows the classification of types and motifs contained in the Index of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. The paper's main contribution is the characterization of four kinds of type interactions in terms of semiotic relations. Our objective is to provide the conceptual basis for the development of semi-automatic methods to help users compose their own narrative plots.

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A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège's "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood"

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The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood

Beyond the metaphor: The morphology of organizational decline and turnaround

Storytelling Variants: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood

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