Wednesday, May 24, 2023 <p>Today I started systematically digitizing the folktales in my collection and attaching them to the database files here. That way I can always compare the originals with the translations, wherever I am. No lie--it's laborious! It took more than four hours to digitize and add 45 files (jpgs), but that included cleaning up data as I went. All the folktales in Pontiaka Fylla volumes 1-31 (the complete run, in other words) are uploaded; the dates are 1936-1938. I am debating whether to systematically do the same thing for the 120 or so tales in Arheion Pontou, or to break it up by collector, such as Akoglous, who has published 20 or fewer across a number of publications.&nbsp;</p> <p>The collectors who contributed to Pontiaka Fylla's folktale series were I. Artahanides (1), A. K. Asiatides (4), Georgios Kandilaptis (1), Despoina Konstantinidou (1), A. Moysides (1), H. Papadakis (2), D. K. Papadopoulos (1), I. Parharides (2), P. Sallapasides (1), A. Soumelides (5), H. Stefanidou (1), P. Stefanidou (1), G. Tilikides (1), P. V. Ypsilantis (4), Unknown (4).</p> <p>The folktales derive from Argyroupolis/Haldia (13), Ofis (2), Oinoe (2), Sourmena (3), Stavrin (1), Trebizond (1), Vatum and the Caucasus (2), and unknown provenance (3).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>They fall into the categories of Animal Tales (4), Magical Adventure (8), Mythos/Fable (7), Story About a Man/Woman (2), and not-yet-categorized (9) (though at a glance I can already see a few that should be Magical Adventure and one that is a Mythos).</p>