ATU Index Categories

a digital companion to the atu index

The ATU index is a classification mechanism for international fairytales and folktales.

For this project, indexes were drawn from the following text:

Uther, Hans-Jörg. The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography. Edited by Pekka Hakamies, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2011.

About the author

Veronica Backer-Peral

Veronica is a triple major in History, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

This site was created as a final project for LMU's HNRS 2300 Literary Analysis taught by Dr. Kelly Younger.

The goal of the website is to make the Aarne-Thompson-Uther fairytale indexing guide more accessible to anyone on this interactive digital platform.