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folklore Reference library
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Primarily the cultural products and traditions of peasant or other premodern societies. Folklore entered the English language in the mid-nineteenth
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The notions, tales, fancies, legends, proverbs, magic and superstition, which stem from the people rather than the learned circles,
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
A very rich body of folklore survives in Ireland, owing to the country's position on the western periphery of Europe,
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
An Englishman, William Thoms, invented the discipline and coined the term “folk-lore” in 1846 and identified its subject matter:
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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
African American folklore is particularly rich in verbal art, as reflected in its folktales, legends, myths, jokes, and verbal contests.
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Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
Blacks long struggled against efforts to keep them powerless, and African American folk culture— from before Emancipation (1863)
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
One of the best ways to understand what folklore means in African thought is to think of the defining ideas
Folklore in English Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
The term ‘folklore’ refers both to the material handed on in tradition, whether by word of mouth or by custom
Folklore in French Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
There are two distinct groups of French-speaking Canadians: Québécois and Acadians. The former settled originally in the valley of the
folklore and mythology: Germanic Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
1. Mythology: Interpretatio Germanica 2. Place names 3. Continental sources 4. Scandinavian sources 5. Other mythological beings 6. Folklore
1. Mythology:
folklore and mythology: Jewish Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Jewish folklore concerns the sayings, songs, *riddles, spells, social rituals, and tales of the Jewish people originally spread by
folklore and mythology: Scandinavian Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Pre-Christian Scandinavian mythology is known mostly from post-*conversion texts recorded in *Iceland, supplemented by *archaeological, onomastic, and
folklore and mythology: Slavic Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Slavic mythology is known mostly from the oldest data on the East and some West (*Pomeranian or *Baltic)
folklore and popular culture Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Medievalists face particular hurdles in the study of medieval folklore and popular culture, since all the ‘folk’ and members
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World Encyclopedia
Traditions, customs and beliefs of people. The most prevalent form of folklore is the folk tale. In contrast to
folklore and fairy tales Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
1. The fairy tale as a subject of folklore study
Of the three main oral prose genres of folklore, fairy
folklore Reference library
Megan Price
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Every group bound together by common interests and purposes, whether educated or uneducated, rural or urban, possesses a body of
FOLKLORE Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
Folklore. Reference library
Simon J. Bronner
The Oxford Companion to United States History
