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MARC recordThe Star Husband tale / Stith Thompson.
| Title: | The Star Husband tale / Stith Thompson. |
| Author(s): | Thompson, Stith. |
| Date: | 1953. |
| Publisher: | Oslo: H.Aschehoug & Co (W.Nygaard) |
| In: | Liber saecularis in honorem J. Qvigstadii. Pars I. (1953.), |
| Abstract: | (Based on work of Mrs Gore Campbell). Summarises well-knit oral tale from 86 versions. Maps show 15 grouped characteristics: number of women; introductory action (wish for star husband, porcupine hunt...) and its circumstances; method of ascent (stretching tree, in sleep...); identity of husband (moon, sun, star...); his qualities; whether son resulted; nature of taboo broken; how sky-hole found; help in descent (none, bird, spider...); means of descent (basket, rope, fall...); results of descent (safe, killed, killed and revived...); explanatory elements; sequel (none, Star-Boy, return, war...); types of Star Husband. Most occurrences are Indian, but tale occurs among Smith Sound and Kodiak Inuit. |
| Notes: | In: Liber saecularis in honorem J. Qvigstadii. Pars I / Nils Lid, ed. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 398.22 -- Sagas and historic legends. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. |
| SPRI record no.: | 25701 |
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