Abstract
Dividing the tales into genre groups is a common practice in folklore studies,2 mainly in order to make a huge mass of tales accessible. Though this holds good for the Kapsiki corpus as well, grouping the tales is more than an expedient of presentation and will prove to be crucial for analytical purposes. The division into genres allows us to see how some types of tales shift more than others, and thus the genre offers a window on the dynamics of storytelling. Most collections of folk tales (e.g., those stemming from groups in the immediate vicinity of the Kapsiki) roughly divide their stories into animal tales and human-oriented ones, sometimes distinguishing between man-cum-animal and man-cum-supernatural beings.3 Zwaal, also for the purpose of comparison, distinguishes between human stories, human/animal stories, and animal fables, which comes close to our fourfold division.4
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