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So here is a sentence currently at the top of the article: The indices are used in folkloristics to organize, classify, and analyze folklore narratives and are essential tools for folklorists because, as Alan Dundes explained in 1997 about the first two indices, "the identification of folk narratives through motif and/or tale type numbers has become an international sine qua non among bona fide folklorists".[1]

Which can be summarized as, "These indexes are important because, as this person said, 'These indexes are important'..."