African Folktales Traditional Stories of the Black World – Roger D. Abrahams
The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D.…
Category: Folklore
Folklore : An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music and Art – Thomas A. Green
Folklore emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline’s inception. The entries provide an…
The Blood Libel Legend : A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore – Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history. According to the blood libel legend,…
The Evil Eye: The Classic Account of an Ancient Superstition – Frederick Thomas Elworthy
In Italian, it’s referred to as “malocchio.” In Spanish, it’s “el ojo.” And in Farsi, it’s “bla band.” In many cultures, primitive or sophisticated, the…
The Meaning of Folklore – Alan Dundes
The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print…
Holy Writ as Oral Lit : The Bible as Folklore – Alan Dundes
With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the…