23rd July, 2024
Added 200+ new motifs, improved geographic data with 10 new locations, added two new classifications for all motifs which can be seen via the Motif Categorisation option under the main title of the page.
11th July, 2024
Added another 1200 new Folktales to the database.
6th July, 2024
Added approximately 800 new Folktales to the database.
3rd July, 2024
MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: Search now returns better results, esepcially around Folklore. This will mean the results will need to be displayed differently in future, and so this will be one of the next changes.
26th June, 2024
BUG FIX: Removed the use of pollyfill.io from CDN following security alert from Google.
18th June, 2024
BUG FIX: Sometimes folktales would not be displayed if metadata was corrupt. This is now fixed.
12th June, 2024
Improved the Bibliography page, corrected encoding problems, and provided an index, and ensured all names were alphabeticised.
28th May, 2024
Further enhancements to the UI allowing Data Sources and Geography (if you are a full user) to be filtered on searches. These options are under the search bar, and will expand when you click on them, making the UI much cleaner in general use.
27th May, 2024
It's been a busy year, but starting to work on this again.
Updated the UI to be cleaner.
Added a feature for "Full Users" to search the Berezkin's Database by geographic region
In the coming months I'm looking to add user ID, supporting resources, and various fixes and updates, including enhanced search options.
12th January, 2023
Added around 450 Fairy Tales from the compilation of Fairy Books by Andrew Lang
10th January, 2023
There were some issues with chapter refrences not displaying in search results, this is now fixed.
Added The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Mabinogion to the database.
More classic texts will be added soon.
28th December, 2022
Manually corrected approximately 500 entries today, fixing false positive location results. There is still much work to do here, with perhaps 1,200 more entries requiring attention, and with over 5,000 motif location references not currently recognised, and perhaps even expanding the locations availble to search. This should not affect any research if you are using the text information, however the maps for these entries will now probably have many less entries.
This will be a massive effort to fix, but this is being worked on.
27th December, 2022
Fixed a bug where the hyperlinks to the original Berezkin Database format stopped working.
26th December, 2022
Access to the Database is now restricted to Patreons, and academics, where their use continues to be free.
Please email access@crecganford.com if you wish to gain access to this. Many thanks.
21st December, 2022
We now can search for a string "some words" or for the instance of "some" and "words", to search for the words to be sequential place quotes around the search string.
18th December, 2022
We now seperate the results in the Berezkin's Database into their appropriate catagories, and so are now shown in reference order
8th December, 2022
Added a new option, under the search bar, to view the Crecganford/Berezkin database. This is dynamically produced as opposed to being a translation of the original russian site. This will eventually allow more interesting analysis to be carried out on objects within this database.
Also added some folktales about Widows, and Willow the Wisps.
7th December, 2022
Changed the format of the Berezkin Search results, removing the preview text as it was considered limited in value, but now ordering the results in alpha-numerical order based on the index reference.
There was also a bug that showed duplicate entries in the Berezkin results, this has now been fixed.
3rd Decemember, 2022
Added over 100 new folklore entries covering frogs, werewolfs, and other oddities.
Also corrected regional data for around 1,000 entries in the Berezkin Database.
2nd December, 2022
Added over 800 folktales, including over 100 tales from the Brothers Grimm to the database.