# Folktales

Tales passed from person to person turn up in forms that resemble each other across many places. Collectors such as the brothers Grimm, and later the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index, gathered them and sorted them into types.

Connects to:
- [Stories and literature](https://mapideas.org/i/stories)
- [Oral traditions](https://mapideas.org/i/hi_oral)
- [Tricksters](https://mapideas.org/i/st_trickster)
- [Why do the same tales recur?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_same_tales)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Folklore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore)
- [Wikipedia: Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%93Uther_Index)

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