Folklore

Papers
(The median citation count of Folklore is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky5
Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics and the Politics of Knowledge3
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Odditie2
The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics2
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales2
A New Perspective on the Cultural Interpretation of Jiangyong Nüshu in China1
The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
‘You Have a Man’s Spirit in a Woman’s Heart’: Women Who Break Hegemonic Ideas about Femininity in Icelandic Legends1
Robin Hood: Legend and Reality1
My Life as a Replica: St John’s Cross, Iona1
The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives1
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion1
The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings1
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed1
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry1
Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England1
The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells1
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters . By Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.London: Reaktion Books1
Index to Folklore 133, 20221
Mummers’ Plays Revisited1
Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England1
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)1
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think1
Volga-Ural and West Siberian Components in the Folklore of the Sámi and the Baltic Finns1
The Symbolism of Domestic Animals in Polish Erotic Folk Lyrics0
Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World . By Tim Flight. London: Reaktion, 2021. 262 pp. B/W il0
A Bibliographic Itinerary of a Festival: The Case of the ‘Bugiada and Mouriscada’ of Sobrado, Portugal*0
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building0
Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia0
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft0
The Festivalized Countryside in Poland: From Folk Fairs to Community Festyns0
‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England0
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk0
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art0
Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society: A Journey from Envy to Personhood0
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community: Raising Local Consciousness and Reinforcing Political Mobilization in Bjurholm through Storytelling0
Ambivalence, Contradiction, and the Differentiation of Primordial Wholeness in Amazonian Cosmological Thought0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice0
Treasury of Folklore—Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies and Ghost Ships0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Correction0
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700–20000
Norse Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Britain0
On the So-Called Shamanistic Substratum of European Culture0
The Shared Origin and Divergent Evolution of Stories about ‘Capturing Yaoguai and Obtaining Treasures in Haunted Houses’ in China and Japan0
June Factor (1936–2024)0
The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City . By Carolyn L. White. Albuquer0
The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies0
Exhibition Review: Folk For Folk0
On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing0
Myth and Materiality0
When Power Swallows its Grace: Poetics, Politics, and Performance in Postcolonial Nigeria0
Visualizing Spirit Entities: Naming, Classification, and Pictorial Representation of Pseudo-Natural Kinds in Nuaulu Cosmography0
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann0
Folk Illusions inThe Dictionary of American Regional English: Text, Context, and a Triangulation Method for Cognitive Folkloristics0
Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)0
Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*0
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
Gillian Clayton Bennett (née Lawley), 1939–20230
‘Right Makes Might’: Proverbs and the American Worldview0
The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science0
Correction0
Reconfiguring the Bluebeard Heroine: Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady0
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change0
Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals . By Ethan Doyle White. London: Thames &0
The Serpent and the Crow: Reassessing Fairy-Tale Motifs in the Old Icelandic Ragnars saga loðbrókar0
Prenuptial rituals in Scotland: Blackening the bride and decorating the hen0
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe0
What Has Remained of the Beliefs about the Wiedźma / Ved′ma and the Czarownica / Koldun′ia0
The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation0
When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant from the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsc0
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills0
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change0
Who Killed Cock Robin? British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment0
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event: Women in Kona and Hausa Tales0
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals0
Peter Rich Cooke (1930–2020)0
Kusaal Folktales: Communicative Tools for Preserving Indigenous Cultural Values in Ghanaian Marriages0
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore from Medieval Times to the Present Day0
Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe0
I Cannot Find the Hanged Man: Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction0
Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
A Poem about Albert the Great and the King’s Daughter0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Daughters0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)0
Correction0
Knowing Nature: Bear–Human Bestiality in theGesta Romanorum0
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century0
Culture and value0
Sacralizing the Gyil : Myth and Ritual in Dagara Culture0
Seeing the Obscene: The Protective Power of Display in the Fig-Hand Amulet0
The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. By Simon Young. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 20220
Eostre and theMatronae Austriahenae0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World0
The Undesired Other: On the Negative Attitude Towards the ‘Other’ in South Slavic Oral Lyric in the Context of Love and Weddings0
‘Gan qey bedenî yeno çi mana’ (What the Soul Means for the Body): Collecting and Archiving Kurdish Folklore as a Strategy for Language Revitalization and Indigenous Knowledge Production0
Woden and The English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered0
The Man Who Sees: The World of Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin0
Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments0
Index to Folklore 132, 20210
The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image0
The Story of Myth0
The Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations0
The Dead, the War, and Ethnic Identity: Ghost Narratives in Post-War Srebrenica0
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women0
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)0
A Brief History of Geomythology, with a 2000–2024 Bibliography0
Folklore, Geography, and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape, and Climate in the Anthropocene0
Lucky Joe’s Namesake: The Extraordinary Life and Observations of Joe Wilson0
Metaphor in Comparative Studies, Or, the Folklore of Anthropology: Frazer, Malinowski, Trobriand, and Us0
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces0
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance0
Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative0
The King Arthur Mysteries: Arthur’s Britain and Early Medieval World0
Women without Guilt, Men without Shame: Defining Cultural Marital Distrust in the Jewish Tale ‘The Rabbi Whose Wife Turned Him into a Werewolf’0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings0
Calling the Spirits: A History of Séances0
ISEBEL and Dragonlore0
Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson—Gentleman, Scholar and Revolutionary Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson—Gentleman, Scholar and Revolutionary 0
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture0
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead0
Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID and Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation0
Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity0
The Sailor’s Tale0
Spectral Nation: Characterizing British Haunted Landscapes through the Lens of the 1970s ‘Ghost Gazetteer’ and a Folk Horror Perspective0
‘Ali Bot‘il: A Recursive Tale from the Island of Soqotra in Its Typological and Regional Setting0
Index to Folklore 134, 20230
Dark Folklore0
English Folk Tradition and the Choice of Ancestors0
Traditional Polish Finger Games0
Merpeople: A Human History0
Folk Narratives about Water Bodies in the Southern Baltic Lowland: From Geomythological Interpretations to Examples of Symbolic Eco-Symbiosis0
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn0
Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination0
The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit0
‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes0
The Catalan–Valencian–Balearic Dictionary as a Source of Folklore Data0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume III0
William Francis (Will) Ryan (1937–2023)0
FromBanibto Bunyip: Tracking Bricolage and Knowledge Systems in Colonized Aboriginal Spirituality0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales A Cultural History of Fairy Tales . General Editor Anne E. Duggan. Volume 1: Antiquity . Edited by Debbi0
Mythology and Nation Building: N. F. S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries and Northern Myths Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 18000
‘The Life of a Sailor’ (‘A Vida do Marujo’): A Portuguese and Brazilian Shanty0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies . Edited by Timothy Lloyd. Bloomi0
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga0
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe0
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories0
Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination0
Flyting versus Karşılaşma : A Comparative Study of Verbal Duelling as a Form of Poetic Competition0
The Malagasy Folk-Lore Society (1876–87)0
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends0
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans0
The Nanteos Grail: The Evolution of a Holy Relic The Nanteos Grail: The Evolution of a Holy Relic . By John Matthews, Ian Pegler, and Fred Stedman-Jones. Stroud: Amberle0
Public Performances0
Daniel Fabre: From ‘John-of-the-Bear’ to the Bird-Man of Lascaux0
Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon0
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture0
Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda0
Robert Klymasz (1936–2014)0
Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore0
The Mythmaking Surrounding Entrepreneurship and the False Promises of the Mamlambo : A Comparative Study0
Being Dead Otherwise0
Connected through Custom: Well Dressing in Jon McGregor’s Novel, Reservoir 130
Son Chint’ae: Some Further Reflections on the Founder of Modern Korean Folklore Studies0
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870–19140
Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones: The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils0
The Genre, Games, and Gender: The Textual Representation of Childhood Play in the Maṅgala-kāvyas of Pre-colonial Bengal0
Vigilant Signage and the Ephemeral in the Magical Landscape of the Moluccas: An Analysis of Nuaulu Scare Charms0
When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other0
The Iraqi Folkloric Tradition of Mājīnā: The ‘Trick-or-Treat’ of Mesopotamia0
The War on Witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography0
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths0
Memorable Dances from the Days of War: A Study on the Form and Meaning of Kurdish Dances in North-Eastern Iran0
The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet0
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway0
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year0
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present0
Rethinking the Ancient Druids. An Archaeological Perspective0
The Fishermen’s Luck: The Maritime Clavie and Its Variants0
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume 20
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman0
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott0
Myths, Memory, Megaliths, and Modernity: The 1970s Folkloristic-Archaeological Place-Writing of Colin and Janet Bord. A Retrospective0
‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore0
Elizabeth Campbell Stewart (1939–2022)0
Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions0
Laying Pluckley’s Ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the Origins of the ‘Most Haunted Village in England’, 1939–790
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston0
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History0
‘He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying0
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849–1947. Subject Indexes0
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews0
An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road: Fear, Death, and Storytelling in the Icelandic Westfjords0
Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum0
Where Does theVilaLive? Returning to a Simple Question0
Haunted Modernization: Urban Legends and Cultural Transition in Contemporary China0
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking0
Love Spells and Hidden Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era0
Folklore and Social Media0
Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction0
Tidal River Shrines of the Virgin Mary in the Region of the Bristol Channel0
Index to Folklore 131, 20200
The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans and Mascots: Folk Magic in Witchcraft and Religion0
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene0
The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination and Folklore0
Building Magic: Ritual and Re-Enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures Building Magic: Ritual and Re-Enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures . By Owen Davies and Ceri Hou0
Correction0
Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities0
Decolonizing Dictionaries: The Telling Agendas of North Sámi Dictionaries0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches . Edited by Solimar Otero and0
Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom0
The Fairies in Cape Breton: Our Beliefs and Tales The Fairies in Cape Breton: Our Beliefs and Tales . By Mary Munson. Wreck Cove, NS: Breton Books, 2021. 140 pp. Illus. 0
The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World0
‘Folk’ in the Age of Algorithms: Theorizing Folklore on Social Media Platforms0
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition.0
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales0
The ‘Wooden Horse’ Tale of Shirak as a Variation of ATU 5750
Peig Sayers: Níl Deireadh Ráite/Not the Final Word0
Willem Frijhoff (1942–2024)0
‘The Sky is Too Big’: Reclaimed Flatlands and Their Communities, What Happens When the Edge of the World Becomes Its Centre, and Romanticization in Fieldwork0
The Reverend Samuel Peters’s Natural History: A Reassessment0
Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry . Edited by Nerys Ann Jones. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. xxii + 225 pp. B&W il0
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 2)0
Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs0
Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra: What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby?0
A Sociocultural View of Estonian and Slovenian Proverbs on Alcohol and Drinking0
Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, from the Medieval to the Modern0
The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest . By Felix Salten. Introduction and translation by Jack Zipes0
The Ancient English Morris Dance The Ancient English Morris Dance . By Michael Heaney. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. 517 pp. Illus. £29.99 (pbk). ISBN 978-1-80327-386-0. A0
The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life0
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape . By Jeremy Harte. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 295 pp. Illus. £0
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends. By Simon Young. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi0
Joost Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum and the Relationship between Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Friesland0
Old Norse Mythology0
Cheyenne Narrative, 1890–20200
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