. . "1885Z"^^ . "1976-01-13Z"^^ . . . . . "Stith Thompson"@en . . "American folklorist" . "1885-03-07Z"^^ . . "Thompson, Stith"@en . "1976Z"^^ . "Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 \u2013 January 13, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore. He is the \"Thompson\" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral) for cataloging individual motifs."@en . .