Most Recent Articles from Folklore

• From Plato to Pullman—the circle of invisibility and parallel worlds: Fortunatus, Mercury, and the Wishing-Hat, Part II 

  Abstract Abstract In this sequel to the article in the August edition of Folklore on the early German prose text Fortunatus, the history of the...

  12/01/06 by Michael Haldane · More from publication

• Filming fairies: popular film, audience response and meaning in contemporary fairy lore 

  Abstract Abstract This study examines the idea of fairy lore (faery) as a modern concept with personal and humanistic overtones transmitted...

  12/01/06 by Juliette Wood · More from publication

• Was the vampire of the eighteenth century a unique type of undead-corpse? 

  Abstract Abstract In his Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (1746), Calmet argued that although Western Europe may have witnessed troublesome...

  12/01/06 by G. David Keyworth · More from publication

• Celticity and storyteller identity: the use and misuse of ethnicity to develop a storyteller's sense of self 

  Abstract Abstract This paper looks at the self-representation of contemporary or revival storytellers claiming "Celtic" identity for themselves...

  12/01/06 by Patrick Ryan · More from publication

• Cryptozoology in the medieval and modern worlds 

  Abstract Abstract Popular interest in cryptozoology (the study of unconfirmed species, such as bigfoot and chupacabra) has been fuelled by a...

  08/01/06 by Peter Dendle · More from publication

• Choctaw Tales 

  Choctaw Tales. Collected and annotated by Tom Mould with a Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2004....

  08/01/06 by G.H. Bennett · More from publication

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