Stith Thompson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American folklorist
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1885
Place of Birth: Bloomfield, Kentucky, United States
Date of Death: 10-Jan-1976
Profession: anthropologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Stith Thompson
- Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 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.
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