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By Ulo Valk. Folklore Fellows Communications, vol. 127, no. 276. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2001. 217 pp. Price unspecified (pbk). ISSN 0014-5815. ISBN 951-41-0885-X

Professor Valk has examined some seventeen hundred texts of local legends and memorates from Estonian folklore archives, to analyse the motifs they contain relating to the visual appearance of the Devil. Many of these are familiar throughout Europe and are duly listed in the Stith-Thompson index (Devil as black man, as seductive woman, as horned monster, as black dog, and so on), but naturally they ...

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