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Articles in August, 2005 issue of Folklore

• The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• Children in Nama and Damara tales of magic
  by Sigrid Schmidt
• Alan Dundes
  by Timothy R. Tangherlini
• Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies and Discourse
  by Teri Brewer
• Towards a revaluation of the legend of "Saint" William of Norwich and its place in the blood libel legend
  by Gillian Bennett
• Black Magic: Religion and the African-American Conjuring Tradition
  by Michael Pickering
• Legend and life: examples from the biographies of 'A'ishah Bint Abi Bakr, Mary Carleton, and Friedrich Salomo Krauss
  by Christine Shojaei Kawan
• Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• "A permanent and even European reputation": the lost work of the Reverend Walter Gregor
  by Stephen Miller
• The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
  by J.V. Powell
• Shamanism: A Reader
  by Keith Howard
• A theory of vernacular rhetoric: the case of the "Sinner's Prayer" online
  by Robert Glenn Howard
• Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic
  by David Atkinson
• Striped-petticoat Philosophy
  by J.B. Smith
• Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts
  by Susan Drury
• The Miller's tomb: facts, gossip, and legend [1]
  by Jacqueline Simpson
• The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition
  by Dave Townsend
• "The Hunting of the Earl of Rone." The emergence of "new" folklore motifs: individual creativity and group control
  by Tom Brown