ABSTRACT
During my senior year in college, I was browsing the stacks in the research library and quite by accident came across a small but intriguing book called The Morphology of the Folktale (Propp, 1968). The author, Vladmir Propp, had studied common Russian folktales and distilled the form 1 of those tales into cryptic equations: https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> S → A B C ↑ D E F G H J I K ↓ P r − R s 0 L L M J N K ↓ P r − R s Q E x T U W * https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315806464/9c0edb99-e8ef-4548-a714-eeb8f7430e7c/content/math_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
