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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells5
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)2
Volga-Ural and West Siberian Components in the Folklore of the Sámi and the Baltic Finns2
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700–20002
‘You Have a Man’s Spirit in a Woman’s Heart’: Women Who Break Hegemonic Ideas about Femininity in Icelandic Legends2
My Life as a Replica: St John’s Cross, Iona2
Index to Folklore 133, 20221
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 Hou1
Who Killed Cock Robin? British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment1
Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect1
What Has Remained of the Beliefs about the Wiedźma / Ved′ma and the Czarownica / Koldun′ia1
Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society: A Journey from Envy to Personhood1
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore from Medieval Times to the Present Day1
The ‘Black Gentry’: The Rookery and the Folklore of Desertion1
Folk Narratives about Water Bodies in the Southern Baltic Lowland: From Geomythological Interpretations to Examples of Symbolic Eco-Symbiosis1
The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science1
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway1
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History1
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches . Edited by Solimar Otero and1
Tell Your Story, Save Our Community: Raising Local Consciousness and Reinforcing Political Mobilization in Bjurholm through Storytelling1
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
London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950: Selected Works of Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky1
Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity1
Laying Pluckley’s Ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the Origins of the ‘Most Haunted Village in England’, 1939–791
Dressing With Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia1
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
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
Gustav Henningsen (1934–2023)0
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott0
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities0
The Fishermen’s Luck: The Maritime Clavie and Its Variants0
William Francis (Will) Ryan (1937–2023)0
The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think0
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces0
Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice0
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
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World0
Being Dead Otherwise0
Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones: The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils0
Robert Klymasz (1936–2014)0
Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra: What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby?0
Willem Frijhoff (1942–2024)0
The Dead, the War, and Ethnic Identity: Ghost Narratives in Post-War Srebrenica0
The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination and Folklore0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
A Sociocultural View of Estonian and Slovenian Proverbs on Alcohol and Drinking0
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales0
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change0
Folk Illusions inThe Dictionary of American Regional English: Text, Context, and a Triangulation Method for Cognitive Folkloristics0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon0
Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs0
FromBanibto Bunyip: Tracking Bricolage and Knowledge Systems in Colonized Aboriginal Spirituality0
‘The Life of a Sailor’ (‘A Vida do Marujo’): A Portuguese and Brazilian Shanty0
Merpeople: A Human History0
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
Eostre and theMatronae Austriahenae0
Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-enchanting Rituals in Europe0
Dark Folklore0
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 Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations0
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends0
The War on Witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography0
Women without Guilt, Men without Shame: Defining Cultural Marital Distrust in the Jewish Tale ‘The Rabbi Whose Wife Turned Him into a Werewolf’0
Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed0
Sacralizing the Gyil : Myth and Ritual in Dagara Culture0
A Bibliographic Itinerary of a Festival: The Case of the ‘Bugiada and Mouriscada’ of Sobrado, Portugal*0
Correction0
A Poem about Albert the Great and the King’s Daughter0
On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from ‘Nighttime Talks’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing0
Michael Chesnutt (1942–2022)0
Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
The Nanteos Cup: Folklore and Heritage from Country House to the Internet0
The Iraqi Folkloric Tradition of Mājīnā: The ‘Trick-or-Treat’ of Mesopotamia0
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies0
Treasury of Folklore—Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies and Ghost Ships0
When Power Swallows its Grace: Poetics, Politics, and Performance in Postcolonial Nigeria0
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870–19140
The ‘Wooden Horse’ Tale of Shirak as a Variation of ATU 5750
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
‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England0
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
Woden and The English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered0
Ambivalence, Contradiction, and the Differentiation of Primordial Wholeness in Amazonian Cosmological Thought0
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy from Tolkien to Game of Thrones and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year0
Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination0
The Shared Origin and Divergent Evolution of Stories about ‘Capturing Yaoguai and Obtaining Treasures in Haunted Houses’ in China and Japan0
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga0
Index to Folklore 131, 20200
The Reverend Samuel Peters’s Natural History: A Reassessment0
English Folk Tradition and the Choice of Ancestors0
Joost Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum and the Relationship between Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Friesland0
Daniel Fabre: From ‘John-of-the-Bear’ to the Bird-Man of Lascaux0
The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings0
Visualizing Spirit Entities: Naming, Classification, and Pictorial Representation of Pseudo-Natural Kinds in Nuaulu Cosmography0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings0
The Man Who Sees: The World of Ivan Stepanovich Sopochin0
A Brief History of Geomythology, with a 2000–2024 Bibliography0
Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England0
The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World0
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore0
A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe0
Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative0
‘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
Index to Folklore 132, 20210
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
The Symbolism of Domestic Animals in Polish Erotic Folk Lyrics0
Correction0
The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews0
Peig Sayers: Níl Deireadh Ráite/Not the Final Word0
Public Performances0
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
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
Old Norse Mythology0
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals0
Culture and value0
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann0
Robin Hood: Legend and Reality0
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman0
Discovering Slavic Mythology between East and West: Folklore Research and the Pagan Past in the Service of Nation-Building0
Kusaal Folktales: Communicative Tools for Preserving Indigenous Cultural Values in Ghanaian Marriages0
Folklore and Social Media0
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry0
‘Ali Bot‘il: A Recursive Tale from the Island of Soqotra in Its Typological and Regional Setting0
The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation0
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
Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, from the Medieval to the Modern0
Son Chint’ae: Some Further Reflections on the Founder of Modern Korean Folklore Studies0
The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics0
Memorable Dances from the Days of War: A Study on the Form and Meaning of Kurdish Dances in North-Eastern Iran0
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn0
Transmogrification as a Gendered Event: Women in Kona and Hausa Tales0
Decolonizing Dictionaries: The Telling Agendas of North Sámi Dictionaries0
The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings0
Exhibition Review: Folk For Folk0
Mummers’ Plays Revisited0
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead0
Seeing the Obscene: The Protective Power of Display in the Fig-Hand Amulet0
I Cannot Find the Hanged Man: Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction0
Norse Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Britain0
The Serpent and the Crow: Reassessing Fairy-Tale Motifs in the Old Icelandic Ragnars saga loðbrókar0
The Ancestral Power of Amulets, Talismans and Mascots: Folk Magic in Witchcraft and Religion0
Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England0
ISEBEL and Dragonlore0
When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other0
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
The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives0
June Factor (1936–2024)0
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales0
Metaphor in Comparative Studies, Or, the Folklore of Anthropology: Frazer, Malinowski, Trobriand, and Us0
Traditional Polish Finger Games0
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories0
Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsc0
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking0
Peter Rich Cooke (1930–2020)0
The Mythmaking Surrounding Entrepreneurship and the False Promises of the Mamlambo : A Comparative Study0
Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom0
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women0
Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore0
Love Spells and Hidden Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era0
Folklore, Geography, and Environment: Ways of Knowing Water, Landscape, and Climate in the Anthropocene0
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume III0
Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum0
The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image0
The King Arthur Mysteries: Arthur’s Britain and Early Medieval World0
Marriage is Not Required: A Ukrainian Tale about ‘The Mare’s Head’ and Customary Law in Tale Type ATU 480 D*0
Haunted Modernization: Urban Legends and Cultural Transition in Contemporary China0
‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore0
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 Story of Myth0
‘Folk’ in the Age of Algorithms: Theorizing Folklore on Social Media Platforms0
Tidal River Shrines of the Virgin Mary in the Region of the Bristol Channel0
Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition.0
Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction0
Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda0
Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies . Edited by Timothy Lloyd. Bloomi0
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
‘Peace o’er the World’: Village Carolling in the Hope Valley of Derbyshire0
The Sailor’s Tale0
‘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
The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit0
Patterns in Icelandic Elf Hills0
Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change0
Where Does theVilaLive? Returning to a Simple Question0
Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics and the Politics of Knowledge0
Cheyenne Narrative, 1890–20200
The Catalan–Valencian–Balearic Dictionary as a Source of Folklore Data0
Correction0
Daughters0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 2)0
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston0
When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant from the Middle Ages to the Present Day0
Spectral Nation: Characterizing British Haunted Landscapes through the Lens of the 1970s ‘Ghost Gazetteer’ and a Folk Horror Perspective0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Elizabeth Campbell Stewart (1939–2022)0
Flyting versus Karşılaşma : A Comparative Study of Verbal Duelling as a Form of Poetic Competition0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)0
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft0
Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID and Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation0
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 Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life0
Vigilant Signage and the Ephemeral in the Magical Landscape of the Moluccas: An Analysis of Nuaulu Scare Charms0
No Pie, No Priest: A Journey Through the Folk Sports of Britain0
Robert A. Segal (1948–2024)0
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art0
Rethinking the Ancient Druids. An Archaeological Perspective0
Index to Folklore 134, 20230
Cultural Daylighting: Using Stories of the Past and Present to Reimagine Manchester’s ‘Lost’ River Irk0
On the So-Called Shamanistic Substratum of European Culture0
The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance0
Correction0
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849–1947. Subject Indexes0
‘He Could Raise and Lay Ghosts at His Will’: Victorian Folklorists and the Creation of Early Modern Clerical Ghost-Laying0
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths0
Reconfiguring the Bluebeard Heroine: Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales A Cultural History of Fairy Tales . General Editor Anne E. Duggan. Volume 1: Antiquity . Edited by Debbi0
A New Perspective on the Cultural Interpretation of Jiangyong Nüshu in China0
Myths, Memory, Megaliths, and Modernity: The 1970s Folkloristic-Archaeological Place-Writing of Colin and Janet Bord. A Retrospective0
Kyoto’s Gion Festival: A Social History0
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
Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity0
‘Right Makes Might’: Proverbs and the American Worldview0
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene0
Gillian Clayton Bennett (née Lawley), 1939–20230
A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans0
‘When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes0
Calling the Spirits: A History of Séances0
Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments0
The Folklore Buried in Dictionaries0
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
The Festivalized Countryside in Poland: From Folk Fairs to Community Festyns0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
The Malagasy Folk-Lore Society (1876–87)0
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