Figure 1.
Map of the approximate locations from which tales were sourced.
Numbers in the circles refer to the variants listed in the Supporting Information (Table SI.1).
Figure 2.
Majority-rules consensus of the most parsimonious trees returned by the cladistic analysis of the tales.
Major groupings are labelled by region or ATU international type and indicated by the coloured nodes. Sub-types are indicated in the taxa labels (RH = Little Red Riding Hood; GM = Story of Grandmother; Catt = Catterinella; WK = The Wolf and the Kids; TG = Tiger Grandmother). Variants by particular authors, or from countries/ethnic groups that are discussed in the text have individual labels. Numbers beside the edges represent the level of support for individual clades returned by the bootstrap analysis.
Figure 3.
Maximum clade credibility tree returned by the Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the tales.
Major groupings are labelled by region and/or ATU international type and indicated by the coloured nodes. Numbers beside the edges represent the percentage of trees in the Bayesian posterior distribution of trees in which a given node occurred. The scale bar indicates the average number of changes per character along a given edge.
Figure 4.
Split graph returned by the NeighbourNet analysis of the tales.
Major groupings are labelled by region and/or ATU international type and indicated by the coloured nodes. Overlapping box-like structures indicate conflicting signal in the data. The scale bar indicates the proportion of characters in which states differ among the tales being compared.
Table 1.
Reconstructed ancestral states for traits shared between East Asian tales and ATU 123 and ATU 333.