Journal of American Folklore

Article	Citations
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers	9
A Reflection of What My Folklore Training Brings to My Work in Refugee and Immigrant Services	9
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube	9
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues	7
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica	7
Folklore's Gender Problem	6
The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice	5
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes	5
Myth Theorized	4
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work	4
Folk Song and the Voice: Toward an Ethnography of Singing	4
Things Done Changed	4
Folklore Without Borders Remains Our Aim	4
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas	4
Information About Contributors	3
Re-fitting the Misfit	3
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century	3
Folklore and Politics in, and of, General Education Requirements at Universities in the United States	3
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China	3
Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025)	3
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies	3
Information About Contributors	3
Vilmos Voigt (1940–2025)	2
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)	2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm	2

The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited	2
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab	2
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany	2
Algorithmic Storms: Folklore Transmission and Education in the Digital Age	2
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)	2
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes	2
Advancing Folkloristics	2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon	2
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation	2
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives	1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)	1
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists	1
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies	1
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity	1
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)	1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake	1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines	1
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales	1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)	1
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)	1
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan	1
Bernard L. Herman (1951–2024)	1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards	1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica	1
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales	1
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities	1
No, You Can't Just Draw Cats: Drawing and Thinking About Gender-Diverse Human Bodies in Comics-Based Research	1
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection	0
Information About Contributors	0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski	0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends	0
Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human	0
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands	0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest	0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano	0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”	0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair	0
The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays	0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures	0
Information About Contributors	0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives	0
Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability	0
Becoming-With: Ecological Folklore Beyond the Hero's Journey	0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare	0
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond: Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and Its Reflection in Myth	0
Introduction: Crisis and Action II	0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media	0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction	0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)	0

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South	0
Information About Contributors	0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project	0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni	0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality	0
Erratum	0
Analytical and Generic Classification of Persian Folk Poetry	0
Bernice Johnson Reagon—In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research	0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability	0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana	0
They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle	0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism	0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic	0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes	0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo	0
Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home	0
Disease, Conspiracy Theory, and Ableism in the Current Political Landscape	0
The Folklore of Devon	0
Cherokee Earth Dwellers, Anitsalagi Elohi Anehi: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World	0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends	0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors	0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy	0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary	0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim	0
Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content	0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat	0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)	0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen	0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers	0
Fionn Folklore Database	0
Information about Contributors	0
Ron Edwards and the Fight for Australian Tradition	0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between	0
Haunting and Hilarious Fairy Tales	0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles	0
Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online	0
Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling	0
Do the Work	0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)	0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships	0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies	0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology	0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada	0
Yōkai: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan	0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts	0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)	0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017	0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector	0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)	0
From the Editors	0
Introduction	0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice	0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings	0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord	0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital	0
Information about Contributors	0
Eating at God's Table: How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities	0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times	0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad	0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer	0
What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics	0
Information about Contributors	0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting	0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)	0
“How Did We Meet?”: Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal	0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America	0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age	0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)	0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley	0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton	0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction	0
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays	0
rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation	0
Crooked on the Stretcher Board: Ch'ats’ą’ Vizhit Teech'iriikii: Collected Essays on Gwich'in History, Language, and Folk Culture	0
Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal Art	0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction	0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them	0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines	0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling	0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices	0

Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past	0
Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist	0
Roman Legends Brought to Life	0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Whitewater Ole: Legends, Labor, Immigrants, Intersections	0
The Pandemic	0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery	0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States	0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)	0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine	0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)	0
The Witch in Flight	0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad	0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend	0
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts	0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage	0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability	0
Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane	0
Out of State	0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good	0
Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction	0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism	0
Worth W. Long (1936–2025)	0
Information About Contributors	0
The Kids Are All Right	0
Baghdad Twist	0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts	0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction	0
Response Essay	0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List	0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)	0
A History of Herbalism: Cure, Cook, and Conjure	0
Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity	0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution	0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation	0
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice	0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)	0
Loneliness, Totalitarianism, and Folklore	0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s	0
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice	0
Centering Oral Histories to Build Communities of Care in Troubling Times	0
Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs	0
Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices	0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World	0
Maria Carmen Gambliel (1946–2025)	0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances	0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)	0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)	0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics	0
On Becoming Folklorists in a Political Storm	0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women	0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine	0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival	0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation	0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs	0
Information About Contributors	0
Stigmatized Women's Discourse about Sexual Harassment in Academia	0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives	0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family	0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)	0
What We Know and What We Do	0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research	0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943	0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”	0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry	0
Information About Contributors	0
Safety in the Field: A Reflection and Progress Report	0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics	0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop	0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization	0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith	0
Teaching World Epics	0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)	0
Voodoo: An African American Religion	0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme	0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon	0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)	0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia	0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile	0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia	0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example	0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse	0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)	0
Information about Contributors	0
The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore Among Physicians	0
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books	0
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians	0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)	0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County	0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs	0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities	0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales	0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings	0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon	0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales	0