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The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research: The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research:

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Humour is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.

Central to this wiki is the notion of black humour.

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Stith Thompson classification of humor

The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research:

The conte-en-vers is therefore the real connecting link between the earlier folktale collections and the modern scientific collections, and is the real repository of the native and original humorous material for nearly two centuries (1650-1850), where little of an original nature and almost nothing native will be found in the jestbooks. The entire literature of the conte-en-vers, whether dated from the burlesque and Aretinesque academies of the 1550's in Italy, or from La Fontaine's contes, "tires de Boccace" as he perfectly frankly admits, in the 1660's ... represents in sum an exceptionally large repertory of jokes and tales, purposely sought from the folk at a period when the jestbooks were already forgetful or contemptuous of folk sources, and far gone in sterile mutual plagiarism (Legman 1962, 237).

... Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point but the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs (Thompson 1955-8, 5:514). --Catherine Grise via [1]

X. HUMOR

X0 – X99. Humor of discomfiture

            X0.    Humor of discomfiture

X100– X199. Humor of disability

           X100.Humor of disability
           X110.Humor of deafness
           X120.Humor of bad eyesight
           X130.Other physical disabilities

X200– X599.HUMOR OF SOCIAL CLASSES

X200– X299. Humor dealing with tradesmen

           X200.Humor dealing with tradesmen
           X210.Jokes about millers
           X220.Jokes about tailors
           X230.Jokes about butchers
           X240.Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers)
           X250.Jokes about other artisans and tradesmen

X300– X499. Humor dealing with professions

           X300.Humor dealing with professions
           X310.Jokes on lawyers
           X330.Jokes on magistrates
           X350.Jokes on teachers
           X370.Jokes on scholars
           X410.Jokes on parsons
           X460.Humor concerning other professions

X500– X599. Humor concerning other social classes

           X500.Humor concerning other social classes
           X510.Jokes concerning usurers
           X520.Jokes concerning prostitutes
           X530.Jokes concerning beggars
           X540.Jokes on madmen
           X550.Jokes on secret societies

X600– X699. Humor concerning races or nations

           X600.Humor concerning races or nations
           X610.Jokes concerning Jews
           X650.Jokes concerning other races or nations
           X680.Jokes concerning various cities

X700– X799. Humor concerning sex

           X700.Humor concerning sex
           X750.Jokes on old maids
           X760.Jokes on courtship

X800– X899. Humor based on drunkenness

           X800.Humor based on drunkenness

X900– X1899.HUMOR OF LIES AND EXAGGERATIONS

X910– X1099. Lie: the remarkable man

     X910– X959.Lie: the remarkable man: his birth, growth, death,
                             physical powers, strength
           X910.Lie: the remarkable man
           X920.Lie: the large man
           X930.Lie: remarkable person’s physical powers and habits
           X940.Lie: remarkably strong man
     X960– X1019.Lie: remarkable person’s skills
           X960.Lie: remarkable person’s skills
           X980.Lie: occupational or professional skills
           X1010.Lie: remarkable mental skills
     X1020– 1079. Remarkable man’s extraordinary possessions
           X1020.Lie: remarkable possessions of remarkable man
           X1030.Lie: remarkable buildings
           X1060.Lie: other possessions of remarkable man
           X1070.Extraordinary man’s family
     X1080– X1099.Lie: occupations of remarkable man

X1100– X1199. Lie: great hunters and fishermen

           X1100.Lie: the remarkable hunter
           X1110.Lie: the wonderful hunt
           X1120.Lie: the great marksman
           X1130.Lie: hunter’s unusual experiences
           X1150.Lies about fishing

X1200– X1399. Lies about animals

           X1200.Lie: remarkable animals
           X1210.Lies about mammals
           X1250.Lies about birds
           X1280.Lies about insects
           X1300.Lies about fish
           X1320.Lies about reptiles
           X1340.Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals
           X1370.Lies about imaginary animals

X1400– X1499. Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables and trees

           X1400.Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables and trees
           X1410.Lies about fruits
           X1420.Lies about vegetables
           X1450.Lies about field crops
           X1470.Lies about trees
           X1480.Lies about flowers
           X1490.Lie: miscellaneous plant motifs

X1500– X1599. Lies about geography and topography

           X1500.Lies about geography and topography
           X1510.Lies about land features
           X1520.Lies about mountains and hills
           X1530.Lies about remarkable soil
           X1540.Lies about water features
           X1550.Geography and topography – miscellaneous motifs
           X1560.Lies about cities

X1600– X1699. Lies about weather and climate

           X1600.Lies about weather and climate
           X1610.Lies about winds and storms
           X1620.Lies about cold weather
           X1630.Lies about hot weather
           X1640.Lies about dry weather
           X1650.Lies about precipitation and dampness
           X1660.Lies about climate

X1700– X1799. Lies: logical absurdities

           X1700.Lies: logical absurdities
           X1710.Lies about numbers
           X1720.Absurd disregard of anatomy
           X1740.Absurd disregard of natural laws
           X1750.Absurd disregard of the nature of objects
           X1760.Absurd disregard of the nature of non-material things
           X1780.Absurdity based on the nature of the object
           X1790.Other logical absurdities

X1800– X1899. Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations

           X1800.Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
           X1810.Tall tales about miscellaneous objects
           X1850.Other tall tales




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