Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook

by Alan Dundes

Book Overview

For centuries, many Indo-European peoples have sung a poignant ballad about the tragic sacrifice of a female victim to ensure the successful completion of an important undertaking, such as the construction of a building, bridge, or well. The legend, and its many regional and stylistic variations throughout Eastern Europe and India, provides material for an original and engaging casebook of interpretations by folklorists, anthropologists, scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299150704
• ISBN13: 9780299150709
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"