Wednesday, January 3, 2024 <p>Amisos, now known as Samsun, was one of the major ports on the Black Sea. I have five folktales from there, not enough to do a full analysis, but enough to add to the overall mix of tales for analysis by translating them in the database. In roughly chronological order, those five tales are:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Butcher's Apprentice (ATU 301), a magical adventure collected around 1880 by Ioannis Valavanis.</li><li>The Woman and the Devil (ATU 1164 + ATU 1641), a magical adventure collected around 1880 by Ioannis Valavanis.</li><li>The Cat and the Mouse (ATU 113B), published around 1909 by Albert Thumb. If he mentioned where or how he collected them, I haven't yet come across it.</li><li>The Magician's Apprentice (ATU 325), a magical adventure from the Megas archive.</li><li>The Great Lie (ATU 1920), collected by Savvas Porphyrios Papadopoulos and published in the Arheion Pontou in 1994.</li></ul>