Folklore

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Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)	19
The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells	6
Index to Folklore 133, 2022	5
Compendium of the Occult: Arcane Artefacts, Magic Rituals and Sacred Symbolism	4
Tradition, Transmission, Transformation, and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to Our Cultural Traditions	4
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion	4
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community: Raising Local Consciousness and Reinforcing Political Mobilization in Bjurholm through Storytelling	3
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. A	2
The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science	2
New Light on Formulas in Oral Poetry and Prose	2
Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect	2
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 Hou	2
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches . Edited by Solimar Otero and	2
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills	1
Suicide and Flowers: The Folklore of the Boy’s Grave (Suffolk)	1
Laying Pluckley’s Ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the Origins of the ‘Most Haunted Village in England’, 1939–79	1
Index to Folklore 135, 2024	1
Tears for Fears: The Dynamics and Politics of a Performative Midrash about Rachel the Matriarch	1
The Tartarian Satyr: Tradition, the Enlightenment, and Naming in Georgian England	1
The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival	1
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World	1
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway	1
Traveller Storytelling in Scotland: Folklore, Ideology, Cultural Identity	1
Folk Narratives about Water Bodies in the Southern Baltic Lowland: From Geomythological Interpretations to Examples of Symbolic Eco-Symbiosis	1
Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia	1

The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England	1
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century	1
What Has Remained of the Beliefs about the Wiedźma / Ved′ma and the Czarownica / Koldun′ia	1
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity	1
The Performance of Healing: The Copto-Arabic Service ‘Abu Tarbu’ against Dog Bites as a Case Study in Ritual Healing	1
Easter: A Pagan Goddess, A Christian Holiday, and Their Contested History	1
Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society: A Journey from Envy to Personhood	1
Mythology and Nation Building: N. F. S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries and Northern Myths Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800	0
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance	0
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England	0
No Pie, No Priest: A Journey Through the Folk Sports of Britain	0
Chromatic Pieces and Diatonic Movements: Some Differences in the Mythic Origins and Present Constitutions of Humans and Animals in Amazonia	0
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Odditie	0
Folklore and Social Media	0
‘Original Memoirs of Apparitions & Spirits in Wales’ ( c .1738): Publishing on the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century	0
Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain	0
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore	0
God of the Witches, Woden Incarnate, or Son of Herne? On the Genealogy of the Pagan Robin Hood	0
ISEBEL and Dragonlore	0
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change	0
Vilmos Voigt (1940–2025)	0
A Historiola Hidden Beneath a Greek Black Magic Ritual	0
Joost Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum and the Relationship between Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Friesland	0
Ridiculous Assertions or Eyewitness Accounts: Memories Encoded within Ancient Stories Recalling How the Channel Islands (British Isles) Became ‘channel islands’	0
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 Shared Origin and Divergent Evolution of Stories about ‘Capturing Yaoguai and Obtaining Treasures in Haunted Houses’ in China and Japan	0
Robert Klymasz (1936–2014)	0
Willem Frijhoff (1942–2024)	0
Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments	0
The Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations	0
Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe	0
Correction	0
Visualizing Spirit Entities: Naming, Classification, and Pictorial Representation of Pseudo-Natural Kinds in Nuaulu Cosmography	0
Robin Hood: Legend and Reality	0
The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet	0
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870–1914	0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales	0
On Amazonian Magical Darts	0
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: Amberle	0
Sacralizing the Gyil : Myth and Ritual in Dagara Culture	0
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals	0
The Man Who Sees: The World of Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin	0
Brightening from the East: Essays on Landscape and Memory/And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music	0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)	0
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples	0
Just Wonder: Shifting Perspectives in Tradition	0
Hunting, Cooking, and Eating in Times of Abandonment: Care and Non-Humans in Two Arabela Autobiographies (Peruvian Amazon)	0
Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative	0
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural	0
Rethinking the Ancient Druids. An Archaeological Perspective	0

Möbius Media: Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque	0
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition.	0
Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)	0
Algorithmic Alchemy: The Power of the Witch on YouTube	0
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building	0
The Entangled and Polyphonic Dynamics of Folk Memory: The Legend of Kadamattathu Kathanar	0
A Bibliographic Itinerary of a Festival: The Case of the ‘Bugiada and Mouriscada’ of Sobrado, Portugal*	0
An Experience-Centred Approach to Animal Folklore in Denmark: Challenging Rationalistic Interpretations of Supernatural Animal Narratives	0
Tidal River Shrines of the Virgin Mary in the Region of the Bristol Channel	0
Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History	0
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Environmental Stewardship Expressed through Folktales	0
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe	0
Kitawa Literary Fragments: How Storytelling Shapes Spacetime in a Melanesian Matrilineal Culture	0
The Mythmaking Surrounding Entrepreneurship and the False Promises of the Mamlambo : A Comparative Study	0
The Catalan–Valencian–Balearic Dictionary as a Source of Folklore Data	0
Daughters	0
Love Spells and Hidden Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era	0
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition	0
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsc	0
‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire	0
William Henderson: ‘A Folk-Lore Student before Folk-Lore Came into Vogue’	0
The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings	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. Albuquer	0
Like Driftwood Taking Root: Folk-Onomastic Origin Legends from the Orkney Islands	0
FromBanibto Bunyip: Tracking Bricolage and Knowledge Systems in Colonized Aboriginal Spirituality	0
The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians	0
The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries	0
Correction	0
A New Perspective on the Cultural Interpretation of Jiangyong Nüshu in China	0
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)	0
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews	0
Correction	0
Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore	0
Exhibition Review: Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld—30 Years of Paul Kidby’s Illustrations.	0
The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah	0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies . Edited by Timothy Lloyd. Bloomi	0
Exhibition Review: Seinn Spioradail: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands	0
The Curse of the Kentish Longtails	0
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
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 ‘Wooden Horse’ Tale of Shirak as a Variation of ATU 575	0
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event: Women in Kona and Hausa Tales	0
Global Health Crises, Heritage, and the Ghanaian Folk	0
On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing	0
‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore	0
Marshland	0
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year	0
Seeing the Obscene: The Protective Power of Display in the Fig-Hand Amulet	0
June Factor (1936–2024)	0
Devon’s Forgotten Witches, 1860–1910	0
William Francis (Will) Ryan (1937–2023)	0
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 Books	0
When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other	0
Folklore, Geography, and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape, and Climate in the Anthropocene	0
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga	0
Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID and Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation	0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 2)	0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume III	0
Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum	0
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk	0
The Sailor’s Tale	0
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy	0
Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, from the Medieval to the Modern	0
The Soldier’s Tale: Part 1	0
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
Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes	0
‘I Don’t Give Facebook My Permission!’—Protective Spells Against Evil in the Digital Age	0
Traditional Polish Finger Games	0
Of Dancing and Drinking Stones: New Perspectives on the Folklore of Orcadian Megaliths	0
Elfen und Feen: Eine kleine Geschichte der Anderwelt	0
Folklore and Social Anthropology in Amazonia	0
The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life	0
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground	0
Giovanni Sercambi’s De novo ludo and the Patron Saint of Cuckolds, with an English Translation	0
‘Ali Bot‘il: A Recursive Tale from the Island of Soqotra in Its Typological and Regional Setting	0
Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity	0
Between the Salt and the Ash	0
Kusaal Folktales: Communicative Tools for Preserving Indigenous Cultural Values in Ghanaian Marriages	0
Everyday Folklore: An Almanac for the Ritual Year	0
The May Bush in County Wexford	0

Nereids in the Ancient Greco-Roman Imagination and an Anomalous Legend	0
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 Zipes	0
The Life of Saint Enda, Abbot of Aran: A Translation of Vita Endei with an Essay on Landscape and Labour in the Life	0
‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes	0
Tracking the Mermaids of Staithes: Curses, Egg-Broth, and Inundation in a Yorkshire Legend	0
Werewolf Legends	0
The Folklore of Wexford: Living Folklore, Traditions, Stories and Calendar Customs.	0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales A Cultural History of Fairy Tales . General Editor Anne E. Duggan. Volume 1: Antiquity . Edited by Debbi	0
The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic	0
Songs for Ramblers and Songs by the Way : Paths and Trails as Vernacular Contexts for Singing in the Early Twentieth Century	0
The Minotaur–Maze Problem in Collaborative Digital Horror Storytelling	0
Of Fairies and Aerial Spirits: The Metaphysics of Robert Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth	0
Gillian Clayton Bennett (née Lawley), 1939–2023	0
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic	0
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene	0
Index to Folklore 132, 2021	0
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 il	0
Cheyenne Narrative, 1890–2020	0
The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit	0
Constitutional Landmarks: Revered Sites of South-West Finnish Folklore and Social Space-Making	0
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston	0
The Shape of Morality: Transformed Bodies as Sites of Moral Instruction in Gervase of Tilbury’s Otia Imperialia and Gerald of Wales’s	0
Daniel Fabre: From ‘John-of-the-Bear’ to the Bird-Man of Lascaux	0
Irish-Language Oral Histories in Greater Boston and Portland: An Online Resource of Shared Cultural Connections	0
Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society	0
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed	0
Elizabeth Campbell Stewart (1939–2022)	0
Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda	0
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, c .1590– c. 1720	0
Folk Illusions inThe Dictionary of American Regional English: Text, Context, and a Triangulation Method for Cognitive Folkloristics	0
The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore	0
Being Dead Otherwise	0
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans	0
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects	0
The Watkins Book of Urban Legends	0
Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction	0
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories	0
Beowulf’s Hair-Pull: A Tangled History	0
The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans and Mascots: Folk Magic in Witchcraft and Religion	0
A West Highland ‘Sheela-na-gig’ and Its Previous Expressions	0
‘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 Production	0
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women	0
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 il	0
Myths, Memory, Megaliths, and Modernity: The 1970s Folkloristic-Archaeological Place-Writing of Colin and Janet Bord. A Retrospective	0
Women without Guilt, Men without Shame: Defining Cultural Marital Distrust in the Jewish Tale ‘The Rabbi Whose Wife Turned Him into a Werewolf’	0
The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World: An Ocean of Stories	0
The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau : The ‘Stanzas of the Graves’, or ‘Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain’, Attributed to Taliesin	0
A Brief History of Geomythology, with a 2000–2024 Bibliography	0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)	0
The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. By Simon Young. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2022	0
Exhibition Review: Folk For Folk	0
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth Century Italy and Ireland	0
Dark Folklore	0
Indigenous Folklore in the Circum-Mount Roraima Landscape	0
Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England	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 Fieldwork	0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork	0
Woden and the Nine Herbs Charm	0
‘I Know What I Heard and Saw’: The Rise of the English Poltergeist	0
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead	0
Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities	0
Leicester’s Arch of Remembrance: Monument to a Roman God and a Legendary Monarch, as Well as a Memorial to the Fallen of the Great War	0
The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World	0
The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture: Between Practice and Phantasm	0
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces	0
The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings	0
Memorable Dances from the Days of War: A Study on the Form and Meaning of Kurdish Dances in North-Eastern Iran	0
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)	0
Acky, Acky 1, 2, 3! Playground Games and Rhymes in Herefordshire & Worcestershire, 1880–2010	0
Wildest Dream: An imagined History of the Green Man	0
A Sociocultural View of Estonian and Slovenian Proverbs on Alcohol and Drinking	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 Mississippi	0
‘He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying	0
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think	0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings	0
Where Does theVilaLive? Returning to a Simple Question	0
Norse Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Britain	0
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk	0
Haunted Modernization: Urban Legends and Cultural Transition in Contemporary China	0
The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts	0
Vigilant Signage and the Ephemeral in the Magical Landscape of the Moluccas: An Analysis of Nuaulu Scare Charms	0
Monster Radiation in Changing Times and Environments: A Case Study of the Australian Bunyip	0
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 Europe	0
A Romance-Legend as a Manifestation of Gender Ideology at Lake Patengan Tourist Destination in West Java, Indonesia	0
Decolonizing Dictionaries: The Telling Agendas of North Sámi Dictionaries	0
Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy	0
Flyting versus Karşılaşma : A Comparative Study of Verbal Duelling as a Form of Poetic Competition	0
The Scottish Origins of ‘The Cornish Litany’	0
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann	0
Rosan A. Jordan (1939–2025)	0
English Folk Tradition and the Choice of Ancestors	0
‘Folk’ in the Age of Algorithms: Theorizing Folklore on Social Media Platforms	0
‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England	0
Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs	0
The Meaning of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited	0