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"""This collection of riddles serves two purposes. It is, in the first place, a corpus of English traditional riddling ... . The widely scattered small collections of English popular riddles are here assembled and arranged systematically. An extensive view of the parallels and of related riddles provides a foundation for comparative studies."" Archer Taylor"

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Archer Taylor ... among modern folklorists has contributed most to riddle scholarship. Georges, Robert and Alan Dundes. 1963, Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle, The Journal of American Folklore vol. 76, no. 300: 111-118 The perhaps most complete book on English riddles, English Riddles from Oral Tradition by Archer Taylor, is an effort to classify them by comparison of objects referred to in the riddles. Versification of Vietnamese Riddles, http: //www.oocities.org/chtn_nhatrang/riddles.html

Archer Taylor ... among modern folklorists has contributed most to riddle scholarship. Georges, Robert and Alan Dundes. 1963, Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle, The Journal of American Folklore vol. 76, no. 300: 111-118 The perhaps most complete book on English riddles, English Riddles from Oral Tradition by Archer Taylor, is an effort to classify them by comparison of objects referred to in the riddles. Versification of Vietnamese Riddles, http: //www.oocities.org/chtn_nhatrang/riddles.html

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Archer Taylor (August 1, 1890-September 30, 1973). Taylor earned his PhD at Harvard. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis 1915-25, University of Chicago 1925-39 and University of California, Berkeley 1939-58. Taylor published The Proverb (1931), its Index (1934) and Bibliography of Riddles (1939). Archer Taylor and Bartlett Jere Whiting published A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880 (1958). He wrote A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies (1955) and General Subject-Indexes Since 1548 (1966). His library is at University of Georgia, except his ballad collection at University of California, Berkeley. More information at www.archertaylor.com.

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