Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Eric Tappe. "A Rumanian Ballad and its English Adaptation." Folklore, 95:113-19.

Describes the adaptation of a ballad from the Transylvanian oral tradition, "The Clement Mason," by W.M.W. Call in his Manoli: A Moldo-Wallachian Legend published by The Cornhill Magazine in September 1862, in which the central motif is the interment of a woman in a castle wall. The conclusion offers two additional appearances of the legend in English fiction of the nineteenth century.
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