Vladymir Props Morphology of the Folk Tale

Vladimir props was a group of russian linguists who and folk tale er er, academics. They became interested in the morphology, the structure of folk tales. And so he set about trying to write a set of rules that would both analyze these folk tales and show their underlying structure. That if you use these rules essentially as what now call programmes or algorithms, they could be employed to create new folk tales. It's really like a very pared down computer algaritm.