Cassandra's point about Campbell's phallocentrism is well-taken. Note-- while they may not have the same sort of currency that the Hero Myth Campbell talks about, Angela Carter has edited an edition of feminist folktales for Virago in Britain: I have seen it here, although I can't remember who the US publisher is. (You see, Malcolm, some of us _don't_ work in offices full of handy references but have to get our mainframe time where we can find it...) And while we're on the subject of phallocentrism, I wonder (assume smilie here) what could have led Maria Luiza Abaurre to assume that "M Tepper" was male?