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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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. Lisky14
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)6
The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells5
Tradition, Transmission, Transformation, and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to Our Cultural Traditions4
Index to Folklore 133, 20224
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion3
Compendium of the Occult: Arcane Artefacts, Magic Rituals and Sacred Symbolism3
New Light on Formulas in Oral Poetry and Prose2
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community: Raising Local Consciousness and Reinforcing Political Mobilization in Bjurholm through Storytelling2
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 Hou2
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway1
The Performance of Healing: The Copto-Arabic Service ‘Abu Tarbu’ against Dog Bites as a Case Study in Ritual Healing1
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches . Edited by Solimar Otero and1
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. A1
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills1
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century1
Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative1
Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia1
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity1
Index to Folklore 135, 20241
The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science1
Traveller Storytelling in Scotland: Folklore, Ideology, Cultural Identity1
Easter: A Pagan Goddess, A Christian Holiday, and Their Contested History1
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World1
The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival1
The Green Children of Woolpit: Chronicles, Fairies and Facts in Medieval England1
Folk Narratives about Water Bodies in the Southern Baltic Lowland: From Geomythological Interpretations to Examples of Symbolic Eco-Symbiosis1
Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect1
Laying Pluckley’s Ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the Origins of the ‘Most Haunted Village in England’, 1939–791
What Has Remained of the Beliefs about the Wiedźma / Ved′ma and the Czarownica / Koldun′ia1
Tears for Fears: The Dynamics and Politics of a Performative Midrash about Rachel the Matriarch1
The Tartarian Satyr: Tradition, the Enlightenment, and Naming in Georgian England1
Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society: A Journey from Envy to Personhood1
Folklore and Social Anthropology in Amazonia0
The Shared Origin and Divergent Evolution of Stories about ‘Capturing Yaoguai and Obtaining Treasures in Haunted Houses’ in China and Japan0
Everyday Folklore: An Almanac for the Ritual Year0
The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Indigenous Folklore in the Circum-Mount Roraima Landscape0
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings0
Rethinking the Ancient Druids. An Archaeological Perspective0
Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England0
A Sociocultural View of Estonian and Slovenian Proverbs on Alcohol and Drinking0
The Reverend Samuel Peters’s Natural History: A Reassessment0
The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture: Between Practice and Phantasm0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume III0
The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings0
Woden and the Nine Herbs Charm0
Daughters0
Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History0
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
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural0
Wildest Dream: An imagined History of the Green Man0
The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau : The ‘Stanzas of the Graves’, or ‘Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain’, Attributed to Taliesin0
Index to Folklore 134, 20230
The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts0
The Mythmaking Surrounding Entrepreneurship and the False Promises of the Mamlambo : A Comparative Study0
The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit0
Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum0
Haunted Modernization: Urban Legends and Cultural Transition in Contemporary China0
The Life of Saint Enda, Abbot of Aran: A Translation of Vita Endei with an Essay on Landscape and Labour in the Life0
‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire0
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann0
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870–19140
Decolonizing Dictionaries: The Telling Agendas of North Sámi Dictionaries0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales A Cultural History of Fairy Tales . General Editor Anne E. Duggan. Volume 1: Antiquity . Edited by Debbi0
English Folk Tradition and the Choice of Ancestors0
Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy0
Mythology and Nation Building: N. F. S. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries and Northern Myths Modern Identities: The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 18000
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews0
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
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene0
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed0
Memorable Dances from the Days of War: A Study on the Form and Meaning of Kurdish Dances in North-Eastern Iran0
A New Perspective on the Cultural Interpretation of Jiangyong Nüshu in China0
Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda0
Constitutional Landmarks: Revered Sites of South-West Finnish Folklore and Social Space-Making0
A Brief History of Geomythology, with a 2000–2024 Bibliography0
The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries0
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans0
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Environmental Stewardship Expressed through Folktales0
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe0
On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing0
The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore0
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, c .1590– c. 17200
The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans and Mascots: Folk Magic in Witchcraft and Religion0
Folk Illusions inThe Dictionary of American Regional English: Text, Context, and a Triangulation Method for Cognitive Folkloristics0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies . Edited by Timothy Lloyd. Bloomi0
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects0
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories0
William Francis (Will) Ryan (1937–2023)0
Myths, Memory, Megaliths, and Modernity: The 1970s Folkloristic-Archaeological Place-Writing of Colin and Janet Bord. A Retrospective0
Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction0
Ridiculous Assertions or Eyewitness Accounts: Memories Encoded within Ancient Stories Recalling How the Channel Islands (British Isles) Became ‘channel islands’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
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 2)0
Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*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 Production0
A Bibliographic Itinerary of a Festival: The Case of the ‘Bugiada and Mouriscada’ of Sobrado, Portugal*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: Amberle0
Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID and Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation0
The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet0
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead0
The Sailor’s Tale0
Irish-Language Oral Histories in Greater Boston and Portland: An Online Resource of Shared Cultural Connections0
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event: Women in Kona and Hausa Tales0
‘I Know What I Heard and Saw’: The Rise of the English Poltergeist0
On Amazonian Magical Darts0
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849–1947. Subject Indexes0
Index to Folklore 132, 20210
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces0
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground0
‘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
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
‘Ali Bot‘il: A Recursive Tale from the Island of Soqotra in Its Typological and Regional Setting0
‘He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying0
An Experience-Centred Approach to Animal Folklore in Denmark: Challenging Rationalistic Interpretations of Supernatural Animal Narratives0
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 War0
Möbius Media: Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque0
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think0
Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)0
Devon’s Forgotten Witches, 1860–19100
The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings0
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk0
Where Does theVilaLive? Returning to a Simple Question0
The Man Who Sees: The World of Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin0
Spectral Nation: Characterizing British Haunted Landscapes through the Lens of the 1970s ‘Ghost Gazetteer’ and a Folk Horror Perspective0
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
Woden and The English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered0
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)0
The Catalan–Valencian–Balearic Dictionary as a Source of Folklore Data0
Norse Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Britain0
Of Fairies and Aerial Spirits: The Metaphysics of Robert Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth0
Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain0
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston0
Love Spells and Hidden Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era0
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture0
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
‘I Don’t Give Facebook My Permission!’—Protective Spells Against Evil in the Digital Age0
Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs0
‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore0
Correction0
‘Folk’ in the Age of Algorithms: Theorizing Folklore on Social Media Platforms0
The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians0
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 Watkins Book of Urban Legends0
Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society0
‘Original Memoirs of Apparitions & Spirits in Wales’ ( c .1738): Publishing on the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Elizabeth Campbell Stewart (1939–2022)0
No Pie, No Priest: A Journey Through the Folk Sports of Britain0
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance0
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change0
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building0
Monster Radiation in Changing Times and Environments: A Case Study of the Australian Bunyip0
A West Highland ‘Sheela-na-gig’ and Its Previous Expressions0
God of the Witches, Woden Incarnate, or Son of Herne? On the Genealogy of the Pagan Robin Hood0
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth Century Italy and Ireland0
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 Witch of Endor in History and Folklore0
Being Dead Otherwise0
Vilmos Voigt (1940–2025)0
Joost Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum and the Relationship between Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Friesland0
The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World: An Ocean of Stories0
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga0
A Historiola Hidden Beneath a Greek Black Magic Ritual0
Seeing the Obscene: The Protective Power of Display in the Fig-Hand Amulet0
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples0
Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments0
Dark Folklore0
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott0
Willem Frijhoff (1942–2024)0
Vigilant Signage and the Ephemeral in the Magical Landscape of the Moluccas: An Analysis of Nuaulu Scare Charms0
Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, from the Medieval to the Modern0
Exhibition Review: Folk For Folk0
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
Sacralizing the Gyil : Myth and Ritual in Dagara Culture0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
Robin Hood: Legend and Reality0
Folklore, Geography, and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape, and Climate in the Anthropocene0
Giovanni Sercambi’s De novo ludo and the Patron Saint of Cuckolds, with an English Translation0
The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World0
Kusaal Folktales: Communicative Tools for Preserving Indigenous Cultural Values in Ghanaian Marriages0
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition.0
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals0
Traditional Polish Finger Games0
Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities0
Just Wonder: Shifting Perspectives in Tradition0
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy0
Werewolf Legends0
Algorithmic Alchemy: The Power of the Witch on YouTube0
Between the Salt and the Ash0
Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other Planes0
Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity0
The May Bush in County Wexford0
A Poem about Albert the Great and the King’s Daughter0
Elfen und Feen: Eine kleine Geschichte der Anderwelt0
Acky, Acky 1, 2, 3! Playground Games and Rhymes in Herefordshire & Worcestershire, 1880–20100
‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes0
FromBanibto Bunyip: Tracking Bricolage and Knowledge Systems in Colonized Aboriginal Spirituality0
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
Tracking the Mermaids of Staithes: Curses, Egg-Broth, and Inundation in a Yorkshire Legend0
Tidal River Shrines of the Virgin Mary in the Region of the Bristol Channel0
The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic0
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition0
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
Songs for Ramblers and Songs by the Way : Paths and Trails as Vernacular Contexts for Singing in the Early Twentieth Century0
Kitawa Literary Fragments: How Storytelling Shapes Spacetime in a Melanesian Matrilineal Culture0
Flyting versus Karşılaşma : A Comparative Study of Verbal Duelling as a Form of Poetic Competition0
Hunting, Cooking, and Eating in Times of Abandonment: Care and Non-Humans in Two Arabela Autobiographies (Peruvian Amazon)0
Old Norse Mythology0
Gillian Clayton Bennett (née Lawley), 1939–20230
William Henderson: ‘A Folk-Lore Student before Folk-Lore Came into Vogue’0
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsc0
Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe0
Cheyenne Narrative, 1890–20200
Correction0
The Meaning of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited0
Correction0
Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore0
Exhibition Review: Seinn Spioradail: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands0
Daniel Fabre: From ‘John-of-the-Bear’ to the Bird-Man of Lascaux0
Chromatic Pieces and Diatonic Movements: Some Differences in the Mythic Origins and Present Constitutions of Humans and Animals in Amazonia0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Folklore and Social Media0
The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah0
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)0
Global Health Crises, Heritage, and the Ghanaian Folk0
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England0
The Curse of the Kentish Longtails0
The ‘Wooden Horse’ Tale of Shirak as a Variation of ATU 5750
Robert Klymasz (1936–2014)0
June Factor (1936–2024)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
ISEBEL and Dragonlore0
Son Chint’ae: Some Further Reflections on the Founder of Modern Korean Folklore Studies0
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year0
Visualizing Spirit Entities: Naming, Classification, and Pictorial Representation of Pseudo-Natural Kinds in Nuaulu Cosmography0
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)0
Marshland0
The Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations0
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture0
Correction0
When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other0
The Soldier’s Tale: Part 10
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
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
‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England0
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