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Articles in April, 2005 issue of Folklore

• The Nibelungen Tradition
  by Judy Quinn
• Reading the bean feasa
  by Gearoid O. Crualaoich
• Believers, sceptics, and charlatans: evidential rhetoric, the fairies, and fairy healers in Irish oral narrative and belief
  by Timothy Corrigan Correll
• Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition
  by J.V. Powell
• Shamans. Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination
  by Jonathan Roper
• Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi
  by Thornton B. Edwards
• Wellerisms in Ireland: Towards a Corpus from Oral and Literary Sources
  by J.D.A. Widdowson
• Folklore of the Welsh Border
  by Antone Minard
• Still Growing. English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection
  by Eddie Cass
• Haunted Inns of Sussex
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in the Scottish witchcraft trials
  by Alaric Hall
• Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions
  by Susan Drury
• Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories
  by Licia Masoni
• Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition
  by James Huntley Grayson
• Folklore collection and social investigation in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century England
  by Mark Freeman
• Early Modern Ghosts: Proceedings of the Conference held at St John's College, Durham, on 24th March 2001
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• Room, Room, Ladies and Gentlemen: An Introduction to the English Mummers' Play
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• Acadian Legends, Folktales, and Songs from Prince Edward Island
  by Martin Lovelace
• The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland
  by Kelly Fitzgerald
• The devil of Croyden Hill: kinship, fiction, fact, tradition
  by John B. Smith
• "Whyler pystry": a breviate of the life and folklore-collecting practices of William Henry Paynter of Callington, Cornwall
  by Jason Semmens
• Changing Tastes. Food Culture and the Processes of Industrialization
  by Ralf Meyer
• Rebellion, Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany
  by David M. Hopkin
• Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2004: judges' report