b.  Fairy tales are myths of Sun, Rain, Dawn,
Thunder, etc., the Aryan Theory 162

c.  Fairy tales all arose in India, the
Philological theory 165

d.  Fairy tales owe their origin to the identity
of early fancy 167

e.  Fairy tales owe their origin to a combination
of all these theories 167

II.  The transmission of fairy tales 167

1.  The oral transmission of fairy tales 167

a.  Examples of transmission of fairy tales:  Jack
the Giant-Killer, Dick Whittington, etc. 168

2.  Literary transmission of fairy tales 170

a.  An enumeration of the literary collections and
books that have handed down the tales; as
Reynard the Fox, the Persian King-book, The
Thousand and One Nights, Straparola’s
Nights, Basile’s Pentamerone, and Perrault’s
Tales of Mother Goose 170

b.  French publications of fairy tales 179

1) The tales of Perrault 179

2) Tales by followers of Perrault 181

3) A list of tales from the time of Perrault to
the present time 183

c.  English and Celtic publications of fairy tales 183

1) Tales of Scotland and Ireland 184

2) English tales and books 184

3) A list illustrating the history of the English
fairy tale, including chap-books:  Jack the
Giant-Killer, Tom Hickathrift;
old collections; etc. 184

4) A list illustrating the development of
fairy-tale illustration in England 188

d.  German publications of fairy tales 192

1) A list of tales from the time of the Grimms
to the present 193

e.  Fairy-tale publications of other nations 193

f.  American publications of fairy tales 195

1) A list of tales from the earliest times to
1870 196

g.  Recent collections of folk-lore 200

III.  References 201

V. CLASSES OF FAIRY TALES

I. Available types of tales 204

1.  The accumulative or clock story 205

a.  Tales of simple repetition 206

1) The House that Jack Built 206

2) The Key of the Kingdom 207

b.  Tales of repetition with an addition 208