Reference Publications
- Folklore
- Magazine provides articles about shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, pareomiology, popular calendar data and folk belief.
Most Recent Articles from Folklore 
Celticity and storyteller identity: the use and misuse of ethnicity to develop a storyteller's sense of self
Abstract This paper looks at the self-representation of contemporary or revival storytellers claiming "Celtic" identity for themselves as...
12/1/06 by Patrick Ryan · More from publicationWas the vampire of the eighteenth century a unique type of undead-corpse?
Abstract In his Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (1746), Calmet argued that although Western Europe may have witnessed troublesome revenants in...
12/1/06 by G. David Keyworth · More from publicationFrom Plato to Pullman—the circle of invisibility and parallel worlds: Fortunatus, Mercury, and the Wishing-Hat, Part II
Abstract In this sequel to the article in the August edition of Folklore on the early German prose text Fortunatus, the history of the Wishing-Hat...
12/1/06 by Michael Haldane · More from publicationFilming fairies: popular film, audience response and meaning in contemporary fairy lore
Abstract This study examines the idea of fairy lore (faery) as a modern concept with personal and humanistic overtones transmitted through mass...
12/1/06 by Juliette Wood · More from publication"Mad" Elves and "elusive beauty": some Celtic strands of Tolkien's mythology [1]
Abstract Contrary to Tolkien's refutation of "Celtic things" as a source for his own mythology, this article attempts to show how his...
8/1/06 by Dimitra Fimi · More from publicationThe Holy Thorn Ceremony: revival, rivalry and civil religion in Glastonbury
Glastonbury and the Holy Thorn Ceremony Glastonbury is a small market town (population approximately 9000) that rises up steeply from the Somerset...
8/1/06 by Marion Bowman · More from publication
