Tale of two Troys

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Founders of the Friends of Troy, an organization to raise money for excavations of the ancient city in Western Turkey, sought support among the residents of its namesake, Troy, OH. No one knows who decided to name the Ohio city. According to a local historian, Homer was 'in the intellectual air' when the city was founded in 1807. The archaeologists who spoke about ancient Troy in 1993 brought Homer back once again into the intellectual air of the Ohio city.

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Psychologically-based criteria for classification by motif and tale type

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Folklore can provide psychologists with insight into the views and attitudes of groups and human behavior. Psychological principles as indexing devices could include: vicarious instigation, rationalization, conditioning, the spread of rumor and effect of group opinion on the individual.

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Bits and pieces: toward an interactive classification of folktales

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The first steps to develop a standardized electronic data base of folktales begins on the World Wide Web. Folktales use motifs for classification, but the computer can also identify these motifs by utilizing an analysis of words and then inventorying clauses and later motifs.

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