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The classic work on forms of the folktale.

An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.

Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.

A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.

Includes series of questions and answers belonging to the well-established medieval tradition of the 'Demandes amoureuses'; a large number of riddles, mainly folk riddles; and 'venditions en amours,' little poems that apparently came into bing as part of a social game.

Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials and became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research.

Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.

A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.

A definitive compendium of children's counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980.

Centering on the theme of story variation, this book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide.