Index
Adaptation: context-specific, 17, 195–97, 291; from literary to oral, 7, 29, 71; from oral to literary, 70, 85
Apprenticeship, 10, 101, 155, 286–87
ATU numbers: explanation of, 8–9; limitations of, 12–13, 70. See also Appendix 3
Audience: adaptations for, 17–18, 195–97; mixed-age, 24, 31; young, 6, 7, 17, 29, 120–21
Audio recording, 16, 17–18, 28, 117–18, 290. See also Transcription; Video recording
Aural tradition, 11, 118. See also Oral tradition; Storytelling
Best, Anita: background of, 4, 11, 29, 30–32, 35; relationship to storytellers, 4, 17–18, 101, 119, 156; tales from, 88–89, 290
Blood: -stain test, 87–88; -stopping, 27–28; talking, 134, 135
British motifs, 85, 86, 89, 134
Cante fable, 77
Celtic motifs. See British motifs; Irish motifs
Closing formula, 15, 226. See also motif Z 10.2 in Appendix 4
Coding: of eroticism, 286; of family situations, 72, 86–87, 118; gendered, 14–15; narrator life experience, 86–87, 101; of violence, 290–91
Colonization, 5
Courtship, 70, 224, 285–286. See also Marriage
Death, 60–62, 71, 89, 196. See also Transformation
Devil, 154–156
Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 7, 16
Domestic work: “shipping out” for, 21, 71; women and, 6, 27, 87–88, 195, 243–44
Domestic violence, 118–19, 156, 290–91
Economy: fluctuations of, 4, 194; poverty and, 9–10, 103; rural, 4, 34. See also Fisheries
Education: access to, 4, 23; Roman Catholic, 21–22, 23; status and, 61–62; systems, 5, 7, 156
Environmental issues, 4
Eroticism, 286. See also Sexual desire
Ethnopoetics, 16. See also Transcription; Appendix 1
Fairies. See Little People, the
Fairy tales: audience for, 6, 7; medium and, 9–10, 19–20n5; oral versions of, 8. See also Oral tradition; Storytelling
Family: multigenerational conflict, 6, 14–15, 30, 71–72, 89; relationships in tales, 10–11; storytelling within, 11. See also Fathers/Fathers-in-law; Marriage; Mothers/Mothers-in-law
Fathers/Fathers-in-law: connection to, 70; independence from, 118, 154, 194–97, 224–25; tasks from, 101–2
Feminine tales: courtship in, 70; gender roles in, 87–88; narrators for, 154; structure of, 14–15; types, 118, 119–20, 154–56. See also Mothers/Mothers-in-law
Feminism, 15, 115, 118. See also Domestic work; Feminine tales; Mothers/Mothers-in-law
Fisheries: business models of, 4–6, 33; lifestyle around, 25–27, 29, 155, 195
Folklore. See Folklore studies; Oral tradition
Folklore studies: bias and interpretation, 61–62, 86; early efforts in Newfoundland, 6–7; recording and transcription and, 9–10, 15–16. See also ATU numbers; Motifs
Folktales 7, 18–19n3. See also Fairy tales; Oral tradition
Folktales of Newfoundland (Halpert and Widdowson, 1996): influence of, 289; narrator gender in, 154, 242–43, 285; tale types in, 60, 88, 117–18, 133, 194, 223
Food: cannibalism and competition, 119, 243; hospitality and, 5, 120; scarcity, 4, 103; sharing, 134, 195, 243, 285, 287
Formulas: opening and closing, 15, 29, 197, 226; reconstruction and, 61, 118, 195, 225; tellers’ most-used, 70, 103, 243, 287
Gender roles, 85–89, 119, 194–95. See also Feminine tales; Marriage; Masculine tales
Generational conflict. See Family, multigenerational conflict
Greenhill, Pauline, 35–36
Good People, the. See Little People, the
Halpert, Herbert, 89. See also Folktales of Newfoundland
Hepditch, Maggie, 26–27, 28, 135, 136
History of Newfoundland, 3–5
Holbek, Bengt (Interpretation of Fairy Tales, 1987): background on, 9–11, 15, 34; interpretations by, 62, 71–72, 85, 133–34, 224; tale gendering and, 101, 118, 154, 194, 224, 285–87
Irish: culture, 12, 18, 21, 286; motifs, 70–71, 85, 86, 89, 134, 155
Jack (character): as character type, 119; cleverness/hypercompetency, 101–103, 195–97, 224–26, 243–44; courtship and, 134–36, 154–56; transformation and, 120
Johnson (character), 60–62, 136, 154, 155, 225
Kennedy, Patrick (Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, 1866), 71
Kitty (character), 70, 86–89, 290
Labor relations. See Apprenticeship; Occupations
Labrie, Vivian, 13
Lannon, Alice: background of, 3, 5, 21–24; genre and, 8, 16–17; relationship with transcribers, 18; tales told by, 65–73, 79–89, 91–92, 115–21, 231–47
Literary tales: cultural capital of, 15, 291; expectation of, 70; origin of, 10; style of 13, 24
Maggie (character), 70–72
Magic tales, 34–35, 71–72, 85, 89, 154, 224. See also Fairy tales; Märchen; Oral tradition
Märchen, 5–6, 7, 14, 121. See also Fairy tales; Magic tales; Oral tradition
Marriage: conflict within, 87 (see also Domestic violence); family approval of, 133–34, 224–25; in feminine vs. masculine tales, 70, 130; as tale beginning, 14–15; as tale ending, 10, 14, 71–72
Masculine tales: courtship in, 70; examples of, 194–97, 223–26, 241–44, 285–87; structure of, 14. See also Feminine tales
Maturation, 10–11, 101–2, 102–3
McCarthy, Mike, 24
Memorization, 22–23, 61, 81. See also Formulas
Merasheen, Newfoundland, 11, 30–31, 193
Millman, Lawrence, 11
Mothers/Mothers-in-law: controlling/disapproving, 71–72, 85; daughters and, 197; occupations of, 26, 27–28; sons and, 86, 102, 133–34, 243–44
Motifs: culturally specific, 134, 155; definitions and use of, 8–9, 18, 70, 287; in real life, 135; visual, 120. See also Appendix 4 for specific motifs
Narrator. See Storytelling
Newfoundland. See History of Newfoundland; Lawn; Merasheen; Placentia Bay; Resettlement; Southeast Bight
Norse motifs, 134
Occupations: employers and, 101, 243, 286–287; gendered, 25–27, 70–71; and storytelling, 6, 12. See also Apprenticeship; Domestic work; Fisheries
Opening formula. See motif Z 10.1 in Appendix 4
Oral tales: ownership of, 11–12, 290; poverty and, 10; structure of, 14, 70; visual features of, 13–14, 118. See also Oral tradition
Oral tradition: future of, 289–291; history and, 3, 9; hospitality and, 5–6; literary influence on, 7, 71; personal connection and, 11–12, 31, 70, 241–42
Peacock, Mabel, 86
Peg Bearskin (character), 32, 36, 60, 88, 117–21
Performance. See Storytelling
Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 5, 23–28, 31, 117–19, 135
Power, Pius: background of, 3–4, 5, 24–30; genre and, 8, 17; opening formula of, 15; recording and, 17–18, 28–29; repertoire of, 16–17, 29; tales told by, 39–63, 93–103, 105–14, 117–21, 123–36, 139–56, 159–97, 201–26, 249–91
Pre-Colonization, 4–5
Propp, Vladimir (Morphology of the Folktale, 1928), 14–15
Religion, 5–6, 21, 23. See also Devil; Little People
Responsibility. See Storytelling
Rieti, Barbara (Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland, 1991), 15, 18, 22, 34, 76–77, 243
Rival tellers, 11–12. See also Storytelling
Rural-urban contrast. See Resettlement
Settlement, 4–5
Sexual assault, 290–91. See also Domestic violence
Sexual desire, 62, 86, 88, 133–34, 286
Southeast Bight, Newfoundland, 18, 25, 26–28, 31–32, 35
Storytelling: children, 121; craft of, 10, 11–12; domestic, 6, 290; fluidity of, 17, 195–97; gender and, 119–20, 242–43 (see also Feminine tales; Masculine tales); individual style and, 290; nonverbal aspects of, 13–14, 15, 28–29; responsibility and, 11, 12; at work (see Occupations)
Strang, Mary, 21–22, 70–71, 243, 244, 290
Supernatural gifts, 27–28, 225
Swahn, Jan-Öjvind, 85–87
Tale types, 18. See also ATU numbers
Titles (of tales), 17, 76, 120, 135–36, 225, 285
Transcription, 9–10, 16. See also Audio recording; Video recording
Transformation (animal to human), 62, 85–86, 101–2, 119, 155–56. See also Death
Video recording, 15–16, 20n7, 35
Visual cues. See Storytelling, nonverbal aspects of
Widdowson, J.D.A., 7, 9. See also Folktales of Newfoundland
Witches, 11, 70–72, 88–89, 118–20, 244
Zipes, Jack (The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales, 2013), 12–13, 134