Oedipus : a folklore casebook

Introduction. Oedipus Rex in Albania - Margaret Hasluck. The Oedipus legend in South Slavic folk tradition - Friedrich S. Krauss. An Oedipus myth in Gypsy tradition - Mirella Karpati. The legend of Oedipus - James G. Frazer. Oedipus in Alur folklore - A.W. Southall. Oedipus in Bushman folklore - Megan Biesele. Oedipus in Papuan folklore - F.E. Williams. The dragon of Tagaung - R. Grant Brown. Oedipus-type tales in Oceania - William A. Lessa. Oedipus in the light of folklore - Vladimir Propp. Is the legend of Oedipus a folktale? - Alexander H. Krappe. On the Oedipus myth - Georgios A. Megas. The sphinx in the Oedipus legend - Lowell Edmunds. Freud on Oedipus - Sigmund Freud. Oedipus and Erichthonius: some observations of paradigmatic and syntagmatic order - John Peradotto. Cu-chulainn and the origin of totemism - Geza Roheim. The Oedipus complex in Burma - Melford E. Spiro. Why Oedipus killed Laius: a note on the complementary Oedipus complex in Greek drama - George Devereus. The Indian Oedipus - A.K. Ramanujan. Suggestions for further reading on Oedipus: a selected bibliography

'The materials of folklore demonstrate remarkable variation. Each of the cultures which share a particular item of folklore, for example, a myth, a folktale, a custom, a folk belief, has its own special version of that item....Students of folklore who study the folklore of only their own group may fail to appreciatethe range of variation in folklore. By bringing together different studies of the same item of folklore, I hope to provide a means of demonstrating both the ways in which folklore remains constant across cultures and the ways in which folklore is inevitably localized in different cultural contexts....' Alan Dundes, Folklore Casebook Series introduction

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