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  "story": 1,
  "id": "S01",
  "tradition": "Akan · Gold Coast",
  "title": "West African Folk-Tales",
  "author": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair",
  "date": "London: George G. Harrap, 1917",
  "location": "Part I, the Anansi tales",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected)",
  "use": "the four Akan tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "A schoolbook collection. Barker was principal of the Government Training College at Accra; Sinclair was a teacher. The tales were gathered from Gold Coast pupils and their families and printed in plain English for classroom use.",
  "translation": "English throughout; the Twi originals are not printed alongside, which is the collection's central limitation.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: colonial-era educationists collecting from colonised schoolchildren, printing the results for a British readership. The book's preface treats the tales as charming rather than as literature with a form.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what the printed text says. HIGH on what was smoothed away in getting it there.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title page. Gutenberg #66923. An earlier download under a guessed ID returned F. W. Bain's *A Mine of Faults* instead — correction UES02-C-1.",
  "workAuthor": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair"
 },
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  "story": 2,
  "id": "S02",
  "tradition": "Akan · Gold Coast",
  "title": "West African Folk-Tales",
  "author": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair",
  "date": "London: George G. Harrap, 1917",
  "location": "Part I, the Anansi tales",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected)",
  "use": "the four Akan tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "A schoolbook collection. Barker was principal of the Government Training College at Accra; Sinclair was a teacher. The tales were gathered from Gold Coast pupils and their families and printed in plain English for classroom use.",
  "translation": "English throughout; the Twi originals are not printed alongside, which is the collection's central limitation.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: colonial-era educationists collecting from colonised schoolchildren, printing the results for a British readership. The book's preface treats the tales as charming rather than as literature with a form.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what the printed text says. HIGH on what was smoothed away in getting it there.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title page. Gutenberg #66923. An earlier download under a guessed ID returned F. W. Bain's *A Mine of Faults* instead — correction UES02-C-1.",
  "workAuthor": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair"
 },
 {
  "story": 3,
  "id": "S03",
  "tradition": "Akan · Gold Coast",
  "title": "West African Folk-Tales",
  "author": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair",
  "date": "London: George G. Harrap, 1917",
  "location": "Part I, the Anansi tales",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected)",
  "use": "the four Akan tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "A schoolbook collection. Barker was principal of the Government Training College at Accra; Sinclair was a teacher. The tales were gathered from Gold Coast pupils and their families and printed in plain English for classroom use.",
  "translation": "English throughout; the Twi originals are not printed alongside, which is the collection's central limitation.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: colonial-era educationists collecting from colonised schoolchildren, printing the results for a British readership. The book's preface treats the tales as charming rather than as literature with a form.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what the printed text says. HIGH on what was smoothed away in getting it there.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title page. Gutenberg #66923. An earlier download under a guessed ID returned F. W. Bain's *A Mine of Faults* instead — correction UES02-C-1.",
  "workAuthor": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair"
 },
 {
  "story": 4,
  "id": "S04",
  "tradition": "Akan · Gold Coast",
  "title": "West African Folk-Tales",
  "author": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair",
  "date": "London: George G. Harrap, 1917",
  "location": "Part I, the Anansi tales",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected)",
  "use": "the four Akan tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "A schoolbook collection. Barker was principal of the Government Training College at Accra; Sinclair was a teacher. The tales were gathered from Gold Coast pupils and their families and printed in plain English for classroom use.",
  "translation": "English throughout; the Twi originals are not printed alongside, which is the collection's central limitation.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: colonial-era educationists collecting from colonised schoolchildren, printing the results for a British readership. The book's preface treats the tales as charming rather than as literature with a form.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what the printed text says. HIGH on what was smoothed away in getting it there.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title page. Gutenberg #66923. An earlier download under a guessed ID returned F. W. Bain's *A Mine of Faults* instead — correction UES02-C-1.",
  "workAuthor": "W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair"
 },
 {
  "story": 5,
  "id": "S05",
  "tradition": "Jamaica",
  "title": "Jamaica Anansi Stories",
  "author": "Martha Warren Beckwith",
  "date": "New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1924",
  "location": "Animal Stories no. 1, 'Tying Tiger', part a, 'The Fish-basket'",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (field-collected), with the collector's comparative apparatus",
  "use": "the Jamaican tale retold here; and, separately, Beckwith's own comparative headnote as evidence for the transmission argument",
  "scholarship": "Beckwith names the narrator and parish for each tale and prefaces each with a headnote listing analogues across West Africa, southern Africa, the Caribbean and the American South. That apparatus is the evidence cited in the comparative reading, and it is hers, not this book's.",
  "translation": "Not a translation. Jamaican Creole printed as spoken, in Beckwith's own orthography.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: an American academic folklorist collecting in Jamaica in the 1920s and publishing for a learned society.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the text as printed. The orthography represents Beckwith's ear and is not a standard.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's Title and Author lines. Gutenberg #72735. Beckwith spells the name 'Anansi'.",
  "workAuthor": "Martha Warren Beckwith"
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 {
  "story": 1,
  "id": "S06",
  "tradition": "Norse · Iceland",
  "title": "The Younger Edda; also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda",
  "author": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson",
  "date": "composed in Iceland in the 1220s; Anderson's translation 1879, this printing Chicago: Scott, Foresman",
  "location": "Gylfaginning ch. XIII (the master builder); Skáldskaparmál (Sif's hair and the dwarves' wager; the otter-ransom)",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the three Norse tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "The Prose Edda is a handbook for poets, not a scripture. Snorri assembles narrative to explain the kennings a skald needed, which is why the otter-ransom is introduced to account for gold being called otter-ransom rather than for its own sake.",
  "translation": "Anderson's English from the Old Norse, using Danicised spellings: Loke, Brok, Skade, Thjasse, Andvare, Mjolner, Svadilfare.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: a Christian Icelander writing two centuries after the conversion, whose preface explains the gods as misremembered human beings.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the English text. MEDIUM on anything found only in Snorri and in no surviving poem.",
  "notes": "THE FILE IS NAMED FOR BRODEUR AND IS NOT BRODEUR. It is Anderson's translation, identified from the title page inside the file and confirmed by the distinctive spellings. UES-01 recorded the same misnaming; carried forward here as a standing caution.",
  "workAuthor": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson"
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 {
  "story": 2,
  "id": "S07",
  "tradition": "Norse · Iceland",
  "title": "The Younger Edda; also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda",
  "author": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson",
  "date": "composed in Iceland in the 1220s; Anderson's translation 1879, this printing Chicago: Scott, Foresman",
  "location": "Gylfaginning ch. XIII (the master builder); Skáldskaparmál (Sif's hair and the dwarves' wager; the otter-ransom)",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the three Norse tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "The Prose Edda is a handbook for poets, not a scripture. Snorri assembles narrative to explain the kennings a skald needed, which is why the otter-ransom is introduced to account for gold being called otter-ransom rather than for its own sake.",
  "translation": "Anderson's English from the Old Norse, using Danicised spellings: Loke, Brok, Skade, Thjasse, Andvare, Mjolner, Svadilfare.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: a Christian Icelander writing two centuries after the conversion, whose preface explains the gods as misremembered human beings.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the English text. MEDIUM on anything found only in Snorri and in no surviving poem.",
  "notes": "THE FILE IS NAMED FOR BRODEUR AND IS NOT BRODEUR. It is Anderson's translation, identified from the title page inside the file and confirmed by the distinctive spellings. UES-01 recorded the same misnaming; carried forward here as a standing caution.",
  "workAuthor": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson"
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 {
  "story": 3,
  "id": "S08",
  "tradition": "Norse · Iceland",
  "title": "The Younger Edda; also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda",
  "author": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson",
  "date": "composed in Iceland in the 1220s; Anderson's translation 1879, this printing Chicago: Scott, Foresman",
  "location": "Gylfaginning ch. XIII (the master builder); Skáldskaparmál (Sif's hair and the dwarves' wager; the otter-ransom)",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the three Norse tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "The Prose Edda is a handbook for poets, not a scripture. Snorri assembles narrative to explain the kennings a skald needed, which is why the otter-ransom is introduced to account for gold being called otter-ransom rather than for its own sake.",
  "translation": "Anderson's English from the Old Norse, using Danicised spellings: Loke, Brok, Skade, Thjasse, Andvare, Mjolner, Svadilfare.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: a Christian Icelander writing two centuries after the conversion, whose preface explains the gods as misremembered human beings.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the English text. MEDIUM on anything found only in Snorri and in no surviving poem.",
  "notes": "THE FILE IS NAMED FOR BRODEUR AND IS NOT BRODEUR. It is Anderson's translation, identified from the title page inside the file and confirmed by the distinctive spellings. UES-01 recorded the same misnaming; carried forward here as a standing caution.",
  "workAuthor": "Snorri Sturluson; trans. Rasmus B. Anderson"
 },
 {
  "story": 4,
  "id": "S09",
  "tradition": "Archaic Greece",
  "title": "Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica",
  "author": "trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White",
  "date": "Loeb Classical Library, preface dated Cambridge, 9 September 1914",
  "location": "Homeric Hymn IV, To Hermes, ll. 1-218; Theogony ll. 521-616",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the two Greek tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "Evelyn-White formed his own text, using Allen and Sikes for the Hymns and Rzach for Hesiod. The Greek is not printed in this electronic edition; Greek characters in the English were transcribed in capitals by the Gutenberg preparer, who also states that he rearranged some material and moved 262 footnotes to the end.",
  "translation": "Evelyn-White's English prose, with the editor's line numbers retained here for citation.",
  "framing": "A scholarly Loeb volume of 1914. The Hymn is anonymous and not by Homer; the attribution is conventional.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the English. The date of the Hymn to Hermes is disputed and is not settled here.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title and preface. The same volume supplied UES-01's Hesiod material; it also contains the Hymn to Hermes, which is why no new acquisition was needed.",
  "workAuthor": "trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White"
 },
 {
  "story": 5,
  "id": "S10",
  "tradition": "Archaic Greece",
  "title": "Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica",
  "author": "trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White",
  "date": "Loeb Classical Library, preface dated Cambridge, 9 September 1914",
  "location": "Homeric Hymn IV, To Hermes, ll. 1-218; Theogony ll. 521-616",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the two Greek tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "Evelyn-White formed his own text, using Allen and Sikes for the Hymns and Rzach for Hesiod. The Greek is not printed in this electronic edition; Greek characters in the English were transcribed in capitals by the Gutenberg preparer, who also states that he rearranged some material and moved 262 footnotes to the end.",
  "translation": "Evelyn-White's English prose, with the editor's line numbers retained here for citation.",
  "framing": "A scholarly Loeb volume of 1914. The Hymn is anonymous and not by Homer; the attribution is conventional.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the English. The date of the Hymn to Hermes is disputed and is not settled here.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title and preface. The same volume supplied UES-01's Hesiod material; it also contains the Hymn to Hermes, which is why no new acquisition was needed.",
  "workAuthor": "trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White"
 },
 {
  "story": 1,
  "id": "S11",
  "tradition": "Ireland",
  "title": "Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales",
  "author": "ed. Joseph Jacobs",
  "date": "London: David Nutt; the Knockmany tale taken by Jacobs from William Carleton, *Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry*",
  "location": "no. XVIII, 'A Legend of Knockmany', with Jacobs's own notes to that tale",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE at one remove — Jacobs is reprinting Carleton, and says so",
  "use": "the tale retold here, and Jacobs's notes for the historical context",
  "scholarship": "Jacobs prints a source line, parallels and remarks for every tale. For this one he states the source as Carleton, gives Kennedy's Scottish parallel, observes that Cúchulainn and Finn belong to different centuries and cannot have met in any early form of the sagas, and records that Alfred Nutt told him parodies of the Irish sagas are attested from the sixteenth century.",
  "translation": "Not a translation. Carleton's Hiberno-English, lightly eased here for a reader without the original in front of them.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Carleton was an Irish novelist writing for a nineteenth-century readership; Jacobs was a folklorist assembling a popular collection.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on the text as printed. Jacobs himself flags that this is likely a parody rather than a hero-tale.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's contents and notes. Gutenberg #35862.",
  "workAuthor": "ed. Joseph Jacobs, after William Carleton"
 },
 {
  "story": 2,
  "id": "S12",
  "tradition": "Ancient Egypt",
  "title": "Ancient Egyptian Legends",
  "author": "Margaret Alice Murray",
  "date": "London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East series",
  "location": "X, The Name of Ra, with Murray's source note to that tale",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE at one remove — Murray retells a named papyrus and cites the publication and translation she worked from",
  "use": "the tale retold here, and Murray's note for the historical context",
  "scholarship": "Murray gives, for each legend, the publication and the translation she used. For this one: published by Pleyte and Rossi, *Papyrus de Turin*, plates 31, 77, 131-138; translated by Wiedemann, *Religion of the Ancient Egyptians*, p. 54. She dates the hieratic papyrus to the XXth dynasty, about 1200-1100 BC, notes it is written on both sides in two different hands, in black ink with occasional sentences in red, and states that the surrounding text consists of magical formulae against snakebite.",
  "translation": "Murray's English retelling, not a line translation. The wording above follows hers closely; her phrasing is quoted where it is distinctive.",
  "framing": "Murray was an Egyptologist at University College London. The series she wrote for was aimed at a general readership and intended, in its editors' words, as an ambassador between East and West.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what Murray prints. MEDIUM on the distance between her English and the hieratic, which she does not print.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's own title and contents. Gutenberg #74354.",
  "workAuthor": "Margaret Alice Murray"
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 {
  "story": 3,
  "id": "S13",
  "tradition": "Khoikhoi · Nama",
  "title": "Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and Tales",
  "author": "W. H. I. Bleek",
  "date": "London: Trübner, 1864",
  "location": "I. Jackal Fables, no. 7 'Cloud-Eating' and no. 8 'Fish-Stealing'",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected), with the collector's manuscript citations",
  "use": "the two Khoikhoi tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "Bleek cites a manuscript source for each fable. Cloud-Eating is from G. Krönlein's manuscript, pp. 30-31, in Sir George Grey's library, taken down in the Khoikhoi language. Fish-Stealing he takes from Sir James E. Alexander's *Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa*, vol. ii, pp. 246-247. He prints a Khoikhoi praise-poem to the Hyena before each of these two fables.",
  "translation": "Bleek's English from Khoikhoi originals he did not print in full here; he uses special characters for the click consonants and explains them in footnotes.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE CONTEXT: Bleek was a German-born colonial philologist working in the Cape, and his title imposes the European Reynard on Khoikhoi material. The book is dedicated to the governor whose library held the manuscripts.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on Bleek's English. HIGH on how much of the telling survived the route from a Khoikhoi speaker through a missionary's notebook to a London imprint.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's title and author lines. Gutenberg #73413. The people Bleek calls Hottentot are named here as Khoikhoi and Nama, which is what they call themselves; his term is a colonial exonym now widely regarded as offensive and is used above only when naming his book.",
  "workAuthor": "W. H. I. Bleek"
 },
 {
  "story": 4,
  "id": "S14",
  "tradition": "Türkiye",
  "title": "The Turkish Jester; or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi",
  "author": "trans. George Borrow",
  "date": "Ipswich: W. Webber, 1884; this text transcribed from the 1924 Norwich edition",
  "location": "the opening pulpit anecdote; the cauldron sequence; the pelisse at the feast",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation",
  "use": "the three linked anecdotes retold here",
  "scholarship": "Borrow gives no apparatus at all — no manuscript, no informant, no date for the Turkish he worked from. The book is a translation offered without a source note, which is a real limitation and is stated as one.",
  "translation": "Borrow's Victorian English. He renders the name throughout as 'Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi'; the modern Turkish is Nasreddin Hoca, and hoca is a teacher or preacher, not a surname.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE CONTEXT: George Borrow was an English traveller and writer, author of Lavengro and The Bible in Spain, who translated widely and not always from the languages he claimed.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what Borrow prints. HIGH on its relation to any particular Turkish text, since he names none.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's title page. Gutenberg #16244. The Turkish corpus is far larger than this selection and is still growing; no claim is made here that Borrow's selection is representative.",
  "workAuthor": "trans. George Borrow"
 },
 {
  "story": 1,
  "id": "S15",
  "tradition": "Japan",
  "title": "Japanese Fairy Tales",
  "author": "Yei Theodora Ozaki",
  "date": "first published 1903",
  "location": "'The Farmer and the Badger'",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (retold by a Japanese author writing in English)",
  "use": "the tale retold here",
  "scholarship": "Ozaki was the daughter of a Japanese father and an English mother, educated in both countries, and wrote these versions in English from Japanese sources for an English-speaking readership. She is a translator-adapter rather than a field collector, and she is a Japanese voice, which distinguishes this source from the missionary and colonial-official collections used elsewhere in this book.",
  "translation": "Ozaki's own English. She states that she has told the stories rather than translated them literally.",
  "framing": "A popular collection for children and general readers, illustrated, issued in London and New York.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what Ozaki prints. MEDIUM on its distance from any particular Japanese telling, since she names no specific text.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's title and author lines. Gutenberg #4018. The animal Ozaki calls a badger is the tanuki, the Japanese raccoon dog, a distinct species with its own body of folklore.",
  "workAuthor": "Yei Theodora Ozaki"
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 {
  "story": 2,
  "id": "S16",
  "tradition": "Māori · Aotearoa",
  "title": "Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by their Priests and Chiefs",
  "author": "Sir George Grey",
  "date": "London, 1855",
  "location": "The Legend of Maui — the fire of Mahuika; the death of Maui",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation, compiled by a colonial governor",
  "use": "the two Māori tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "Grey collected Māori narrative while Governor of New Zealand, working from recitations and manuscripts supplied by named rangatira and tohunga, and published the Māori text separately. His editing has been contested for well over a century: he combined recitations, smoothed variants and produced a single continuous narrative where the tradition held several.",
  "translation": "Grey's English. The scanned file used here carries visible OCR damage — 'liim' for 'him', 'band' for 'hand', 'tlrrew' for 'threw' — and every passage relied on was read against that damage rather than through it.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: the collector was the head of the colonial administration, collecting from the people that administration governed, and said openly that understanding their traditions would help him govern them.",
  "uncertainty": "MEDIUM. The episodes are securely attested; Grey's particular arrangement of them is his.",
  "notes": "The same volume supplied UES-01's Māori creation material and is held in that book's source directory, read-only. Māui narratives differ between iwi and no single telling is the correct one.",
  "workAuthor": "Sir George Grey"
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 {
  "story": 3,
  "id": "S17",
  "tradition": "Māori · Aotearoa",
  "title": "Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, as Furnished by their Priests and Chiefs",
  "author": "Sir George Grey",
  "date": "London, 1855",
  "location": "The Legend of Maui — the fire of Mahuika; the death of Maui",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE in translation, compiled by a colonial governor",
  "use": "the two Māori tales retold in this part",
  "scholarship": "Grey collected Māori narrative while Governor of New Zealand, working from recitations and manuscripts supplied by named rangatira and tohunga, and published the Māori text separately. His editing has been contested for well over a century: he combined recitations, smoothed variants and produced a single continuous narrative where the tradition held several.",
  "translation": "Grey's English. The scanned file used here carries visible OCR damage — 'liim' for 'him', 'band' for 'hand', 'tlrrew' for 'threw' — and every passage relied on was read against that damage rather than through it.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: the collector was the head of the colonial administration, collecting from the people that administration governed, and said openly that understanding their traditions would help him govern them.",
  "uncertainty": "MEDIUM. The episodes are securely attested; Grey's particular arrangement of them is his.",
  "notes": "The same volume supplied UES-01's Māori creation material and is held in that book's source directory, read-only. Māui narratives differ between iwi and no single telling is the correct one.",
  "workAuthor": "Sir George Grey"
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 {
  "story": 4,
  "id": "S18",
  "tradition": "Southern India",
  "title": "Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India",
  "author": "Mrs Howard Kingscote and Pandit Natesa Sastri",
  "date": "London, 1890",
  "location": "XXVI, The Brahmarakshas and the Hair, with the volume's comparative notes",
  "type": "PRIMARY / HISTORICAL SOURCE (collected), with substantial comparative apparatus",
  "use": "the tale retold here; and the volume's notes, cited in the comparative reading",
  "scholarship": "The volume carries a long notes section tracing individual tales across traditions. For the neighbouring tale of the Lost Camel the notes follow it through Voltaire's Zadig, the Arab historian Mas'udi's Meadows of Gold of AD 943, the Wortley Montague manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights in the Bodleian, the Persian Nigaristan, the Hebrew Talmud and a Siberian version recorded by Radloff. That is the volume's own work, not this book's.",
  "translation": "English. Natesa Sastri was a Tamil scholar and folklorist; Kingscote was the English co-author and editor.",
  "framing": "NAMED IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: a collaboration between an Indian scholar and a British woman of the colonial establishment, published in London for a British readership. The introduction argues about diffusion theory in terms current in 1890.",
  "uncertainty": "LOW on what is printed. The division of labour between the two named authors is not stated in detail.",
  "notes": "Verified from the file's title page and contents. Gutenberg #37002.",
  "workAuthor": "Mrs Howard Kingscote and Pandit Natesa Sastri"
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]