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Cross references are supplied for folklore arranged alphabetically according to title, subject, theme, country, type, and illustrator
1985. “The Blues Ballad and the Genesis of Style in Traditional Narrative Song.” In Narrative Folksong: New Directions, ed. Carol L. Edwards and Kathleen B. Manley, 437–82. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Williams, Clover Nolan. 1994.
"From anecdotes, boasts, and children's stories to urban tall tales, vampires, and Xerox-lore, this superb scholarly dictionary illuminates the historical and contemporary form, figures, and fields of folklore.
Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore.
Folklore: Selected Essays
Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
... new ' formulas ' are created by adjusting one or two words according to this pattern . But nearly every other phrase ... formula simply reveal some basic facts about all linguistics . The syntactical possibilities of such languages as ...
... Aesopica. A Series of Texts Relating to Aesop or Ascribed to Him or Closely Connected with the Literary Tradition the Bears His Name, University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1952, e per le loro riprese G.-J. van Dijk, «Aesopica posteriora ...
In this collection I do not profess to include all that may come under the head of Folk Lore, such, for example, as the reading of dreams and cups, spaeing fortunes by cards or other methods-that class of superstitions by which designing ...
Folklore: Or, Superstitious Beliefs West of Scotland Within This Country