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Title from cover Imprint varies Official organ of the American Folk-lore Society Humanities index America, history and life Historical abstracts Issues for Jan./Mar. 1984-Oct./Dec. 1984 carry whole numbering and lack vol./internal numbering
Types of information held by oral repositories includes lineages, oral law, mythology, oral literature and oral poetry (of which oral history is often entwined), folk songs and aural tradition, and traditional knowledge.
A dictionary of plant-lore. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866183-5. Westwood, Jennifer; Simpson, Jacqueline (2005). The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-100711-3. Wright, Arthur Robinson (2013). English Folklore. Read Books.
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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
In this sense, oral lore is an ancient practice and concept natural to the earliest storied communications and transmissions of bodies of knowledge and culture in verbal form from the dawn of language-based human societies, and 'oral literature' thus understood was putatively recognized in times prior to recordings of history in non-oral media ...
Children's books based on fairy tales (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Children's books based on folklore" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Front cover of Folklore: "He loses his hat: Judith Philips riding a man", from: The Brideling, Sadling, and Ryding, of a rich Churle in Hampshire (1595). Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) [1] is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.