Plagiarism and Folklore

Slate has an interesting article on a bunch of nineteenth century writers stole from each other and how by using twenty-first century technology of Google Books will lead to more of this sort of thing. The funny part is England Howell stole a passage from Sabine Baring-Gould which she, in fact, had stolen from an earlier text on Northern Mythology. Y'all better make sure your disses and other stuff you'paraphrased' are vetted.