Folklore

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes4
Connected through Custom: Well Dressing in Jon McGregor’s Novel, Reservoir 133
Humans and Elephants, Transforming and Transformed: Two Naro Myths about Ontological Mutability3
Performative Chineseness and Culinary Tourism in Chinese Restaurants in Newfoundland, Canada2
The West Country Adventures of Saint Augustine of Canterbury2
When Power Swallows its Grace: Poetics, Politics, and Performance in Postcolonial Nigeria1
Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra: What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby?1
Woden and The English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered1
The Dead, the War, and Ethnic Identity: Ghost Narratives in Post-War Srebrenica1
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore1
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)1
The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings1
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking1
On the So-Called Shamanistic Substratum of European Culture1
FromBanibto Bunyip: Tracking Bricolage and Knowledge Systems in Colonized Aboriginal Spirituality1
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott1
Rice and Rhyme: Seeing Zhuang Rice-related Folklore through Their Folk Songs1
The Symbolism of Domestic Animals in Polish Erotic Folk Lyrics1
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry1
‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes1
Where Does theVilaLive? Returning to a Simple Question1
Making ‘Modern Fairies’: Making Fairies Modern1
The Serpent and the Crow: Reassessing Fairy-Tale Motifs in the Old Icelandic Ragnars saga loðbrókar1
Botanical Bosom Serpent Traditions1
‘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 Production1
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 ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion0
Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages0
The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation0
The Genre, Games, and Gender: The Textual Representation of Childhood Play in the Maṅgala-kāvyas of Pre-colonial Bengal0
Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination0
Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities0
The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal0
Robin Hood: Legend and Reality0
The Man Who Sees: The World of Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin0
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
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed0
Myth and Materiality0
Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History. By Mark Teeuwen. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 261 pp. Illus. £76.50 (hbk). ISBN 978-1-350220
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art0
Correction0
Mythology and Nation Building: N. F. S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries and Northern Myths Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 18000
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives0
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century0
The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival . By Steve Siporin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Pres0
Index to Folklore 130, 20190
Son Chint’ae: Some Further Reflections on the Founder of Modern Korean Folklore Studies0
The Catalan–Valencian–Balearic Dictionary as a Source of Folklore Data0
The King Arthur Mysteries: Arthur’s Britain and Early Medieval World0
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
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World0
On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing0
The Undesired Other: On the Negative Attitude Towards the ‘Other’ in South Slavic Oral Lyric in the Context of Love and Weddings0
Correction0
Peter Rich Cooke (1930–2020)0
Volga-Ural and West Siberian Components in the Folklore of the Sámi and the Baltic Finns0
Joost Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum and the Relationship between Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Friesland0
Snails, Water in a Stone, and Holy Wells: An Examination of Wart Cures from the Irish Schools’ Folklore Collection, 1937–380
The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume III0
Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories0
A Poem about Albert the Great and the King’s Daughter0
The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet0
Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments0
Lucky Joe’s Namesake: The Extraordinary Life and Observations of Joe Wilson0
Ambivalence, Contradiction, and the Differentiation of Primordial Wholeness in Amazonian Cosmological Thought0
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture0
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)0
Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction0
Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland0
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women0
Christopher Cawte (1932–2019)0
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History0
Introducing the Medieval Dragon0
‘You Have a Man’s Spirit in a Woman’s Heart’: Women Who Break Hegemonic Ideas about Femininity in Icelandic Legends0
The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science0
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman0
‘Right Makes Might’: Proverbs and the American Worldview0
Public Performances0
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance0
Treasury of Folklore—Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies and Ghost Ships0
Ritual & Myths in Nursing: A Social History0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales A Cultural History of Fairy Tales . General Editor Anne E. Duggan. Volume 1: Antiquity . Edited by Debbi0
The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends, & Myths0
Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomine0
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)0
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building0
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition.0
Metaphor in Comparative Studies, Or, the Folklore of Anthropology: Frazer, Malinowski, Trobriand, and Us0
Peig Sayers: Níl Deireadh Ráite/Not the Final Word0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture0
The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells . By Owen Davies. New0
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
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England0
An Ethnography of an Imaginary Road: Fear, Death, and Storytelling in the Icelandic Westfjords0
Reconfiguring the Bluebeard Heroine: Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady0
Haunted Modernization: Urban Legends and Cultural Transition in Contemporary China0
A New Perspective on the Cultural Interpretation of Jiangyong Nüshu in China0
Shapeshifters: A History0
Being Dead Otherwise Being Dead Otherwise . By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. Illus. $25.95 (pbk). ISBN 978-1-47801-984-8. Also available0
Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics and the Politics of Knowledge0
Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*0
Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom0
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway0
Seeing the Obscene: The Protective Power of Display in the Fig-Hand Amulet0
‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England0
Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon0
‘He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying0
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think0
Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum . By David Waldron, Sharn Waldron, and Nathaniel Buchanan. Melbourne: Arcadia, 2020. 170 0
Vigilant Signage and the Ephemeral in the Magical Landscape of the Moluccas: An Analysis of Nuaulu Scare Charms0
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change0
Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, from the Medieval to the Modern0
Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit0
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870–19140
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann . Translated by Jack Zipes. Illustrat0
Building Community Self-Esteem: Advocating for Culture0
Old Norse Mythology0
The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans and Mascots: Folk Magic in Witchcraft and Religion0
Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions0
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe0
A Sociocultural View of Estonian and Slovenian Proverbs on Alcohol and Drinking0
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories0
Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones: The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils0
The War on Witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography0
Decolonizing Dictionaries: The Telling Agendas of North Sámi Dictionaries0
Mummers’ Plays Revisited0
Eostre and theMatronae Austriahenae0
Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice0
The Iraqi Folkloric Tradition of Mājīnā: The ‘Trick-or-Treat’ of Mesopotamia0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World0
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849–1947. Subject Indexes0
The Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations0
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year0
Winter Crones and Bread-Givers: The Northern Iberian Vieya0
Transnational Death0
The Reverend Samuel Peters’s Natural History: A Reassessment0
Collecting the Folklore of Ireland: The Schoolchildren’s Contribution0
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsc0
Frank de Caro (1943–2020)0
Folklore and Social Media0
Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend0
Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda0
The Fishermen’s Luck: The Maritime Clavie and Its Variants0
Folk Magic and Healing: An Unusual History of Everyday Plants0
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
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths0
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn0
Folk Illusions inThe Dictionary of American Regional English: Text, Context, and a Triangulation Method for Cognitive Folkloristics0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume 20
When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant from the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales0
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 Story of Myth0
‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire0
Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs . Edited by Ülo Valk and Marion Bowman. She0
Burning Feathers: A Hint at Hysteria in a Connecticut Witchcraft Case0
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals0
Index to Folklore 132, 20210
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore from Medieval Times to the Present Day0
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A–Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants0
Prenuptial rituals in Scotland: Blackening the bride and decorating the hen0
Index to Folklore 133, 20220
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
Merpeople: A Human History0
The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries0
Who Killed Cock Robin? British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment0
Index to Folklore 131, 20200
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 Books0
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat: Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition0
‘The Life of a Sailor’ (‘A Vida do Marujo’): A Portuguese and Brazilian Shanty0
London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky0
I Cannot Find the Hanged Man: Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction0
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment0
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans0
Games, Rhymes, and Wordplay of London Children0
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
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community: Raising Local Consciousness and Reinforcing Political Mobilization in Bjurholm through Storytelling0
Calling the Spirits: A History of Séances0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies . Edited by Timothy Lloyd. Bloomi0
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)0
Cymru Dafydd ap Gwilym: Cerddi a Lleoedd/Dafydd ap Gwilym’s Wales: Poems and Places0
A Bibliographic Itinerary of a Festival: The Case of the ‘Bugiada and Mouriscada’ of Sobrado, Portugal*0
Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination0
Knowing Nature: Bear–Human Bestiality in theGesta Romanorum0
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales0
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700–20000
‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore0
Cheyenne Narrative, 1890–20200
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture . By Bill Angus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 304 pp. Ill0
Culture and value0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change0
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies0
‘Folk’ in the Age of Algorithms: Theorizing Folklore on Social Media Platforms0
Elizabeth Campbell Stewart (1939–2022)0
Rethinking the Ancient Druids. An Archaeological Perspective0
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft0
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends0
The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics0
Correction0
Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia0
Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga0
My Life as a Replica: St John’s Cross, Iona0
The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World0
Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative0
Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society: A Journey from Envy to Personhood0
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe0
The Nanteos Grail: The Evolution of a Holy Relic0
Spectral Nation: Characterizing British Haunted Landscapes through the Lens of the 1970s ‘Ghost Gazetteer’ and a Folk Horror Perspective0
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain0
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
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews0
Dark Folklore0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Johnny Breadless: A Pacifist Fairy Tale0
Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England0
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
The Festivalized Countryside in Poland: From Folk Fairs to Community Festyns0
The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination and Folklore0
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead0
Traditions of Death and Burial0
The Faust Tales of Christoph Rosshirt. A Critical Edition with Commentary0
Books Received to 31 March 20200
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches.0
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present0
Gods and Rollercoasters: Religion and Theme Parks Worldwide0
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws and Other Classical Myths, Historical Odditie0
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 Malagasy Folk-Lore Society (1876–87)0
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)0
Snakes, People, and Spirits: Traditional Eastern Africa in its Broader Context0
Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies0
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