Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage

Part I.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Brief Overview of Recent Theories on the Indo-European Homeland.- Chapter 3: Cucuteni-Tripolye: the Indo-European Homeland?.- Chapter 4: Some Recent Genetic and Archaeological Conclusions.- Chapter 5: Daco-Romanian Language - an Indo-European Branch.- Part II.- Chapter 6: The Development of Comparative Method.- Chapter 7: The Concept of Myth.- Chapter 8: Myth Between Symbol and Metaphor.- Chapter 9: Myth and Fairy Tales.- Chapter 10: Mythic time versus fairy tale time.- Part III.- Chapter 11: Traits of Indo-European Mythic Motifs in Romanian Folk Stories: Man's Creation.- Chapter 12: Cosmogony: Fârtat and Nefârtat, the Romanian Twins among the Indo-European Divine Twins.- Chapter 13: God 'Dumnezeu' and the Creation of Earth, Sky, Mountains in Romanian Beliefs.- Chapter 14: The Romanian GoddessIleana Simziana: The Sun and the Moon marriage.- Chapter 15: The Sun and a Mortal Girl Marriage: the Romanian Song of Cicoarea 'The Chicory'.- Chapter 16: The 'Deer Hunt' Motif in the Romanian Wedding Ceremony.- Chapter 17: Romanian Feminine Spirits: iele, rusalii, ?oimane.- Chapter 18: The Romanian Pacala among the Indo-European Tricksters.- Chapter 19: The Hero Slaying the Dragon Myth and the Romanian Song Iovan Iorgovan.- Chapter 20: Youth Rivalry Fights: From Nart Sagas to the Romanian Song Miorita.- Chapter 21: Metamorphoses in Myth and Fairy Tales.- Chapter 22: Metamorphoses in Youth Initiation Rites.- Chapter 23: The Romanian folk story "The Enchanted Pig," the 'Beauty and the Beast' motif.- Chapter 24: Indo-European Social Structures and Youth Initiation Rites in Romanian folk customs.- Chapter 25: Father Christmas - Romanian Mos Craciun - a Solar Myth.- Chapter 26: Conclusions.- Chapter 27: The Daco-Romanian Cultural Vocabulary.