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Figures, traditions and symbols have their own places in the header. These are the other ways to browse the same 692 figures.

• Kinds

  What sort of thing a figure is: 19 kinds it is filed under, and 41 families of figures that resemble each other.

• Traits

  What a figure looks like and what it does, as an alphabetical list of the words this bestiary uses.

• Roles

  What a figure is for in its tales, such as trickster, shadow or threshold: 13 roles, each read from the works that name the figure.

• Thompson

  The same story elements as the traits, filed the way folklorists file them, under Stith Thompson's Motif-Index.