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	English Folklore
		But it wasn't only Shakespeare that brought new life to the mischievous Puck, for other famous names of literature such as Spenser and Langland did too, the Puck was certainly a favourite character of Elizabethan and Medieval literature.
		The Puck also appears in the folklore of Sussex where a man who spies on his little helpers overhears one of them say, "I say, Puck, I sweats, do you sweat?".
		In English folklore the robin is sometimes associated with both good and bad luck, and both life and death.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /folklore.html (870 words)

	English folklore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries.
		Some English legends can be traced back to their roots, even predating the Roman invasion of Britain, while the origin of others is uncertain or disputed.
		England abounds with folklore, in all forms, from such obvious manifestations as the traditional Arthurian legends and Robin Hood tales, to contemporary urban myths and facets of cryptozoology such as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_folklore (284 words)

	Folklore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group.
		The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals.
		There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not consider them to be folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors, gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle rituals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folklore (756 words)

	English: Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Folklore tends to focus on those cultural forms that permeate the everyday, which are passed from generation to generation, usually orally, with no one author or creator.
		The folklore concentration provides an introduction to the study of folklore methods and folk materials, as well as a further focus within a particular area that will bring depth to their studies.
		That area of focus might be the folklore of a particular geopgraphical region or community, or the study of a particular genre, such as oral narrative or performance.
	english.osu.edu /areas/folklore (297 words)

	UL Lafayette Folklore Studies On-Line Brochure
		In both departments, folklore is an integral component of the study of language, literature, and culture.
		Someone once called Louisiana a “folklore land” and we do live in a state, and in a region of the state, where folklore not only abides happily but is the subject of a great deal of attention by scholars and citizens, tourists and natives.
		The university and especially the folklore faculty have a long history of active involvement in civic and community life and the relationship UL Lafayette has with its environs is something of which we are especially proud.
	www.louisiana.edu /Academic/LiberalArts/ENGL/Folklore/brochure.html (733 words)

	Search Results for "Folklore"
		folklore, the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition.
		...fairy, in folklore, one of a variety of supernatural beings endowed with the powers of magic and enchantment.
		...mermaid, in folklore, sea-dwelling creature commonly represented as having the head and body of a woman and a fishtail instead of legs.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Folklore (309 words)

	Higher Education Programs in Folklore and Folklife - Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Interdisciplinary M.A. in folklore; B.A., Ph.D. in anthropology or English with a concentration in folklore.
		B.A. in anthropology, English, or English with concentration in folklore and ethnomusicology.
		B.A. in English with a concentration in folklore; B.A. minor in folklore in the Department of English; M.A. in Heritage Preservation with a concentration in folklore.
	www.loc.gov /folklife/source/grad.html (1257 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Drawing from contemporary folklore theory and method, English 482 (Folklore Studies) will consider the folklore genres of verbal arts such as personal narratives, myths, legends, and jokes; ritual/festival events such as Rural Cajun Mardi Gras and traditional baptisms; folk music such as ballads, blues, and gospel; and material culture such as quilts and wood carvings.
		To introduce the discipline of folklore, including an overview of the history and development of folklore theories and methods and concentrating on contemporary studies in the field.
		Folklore analyzed in the paper should be transcribed (if verbal) or described with words and photographs (if an event or object).
	www.latech.edu /tech/liberal-arts/english/roach.htm (1559 words)

	BU Libraries \| Research Guides \| Folklore
		Guide to conducting regional folklore library research (as well as research in the community) and overview essays, annotated bibliographies, and a directory of resources for eight regions of the U.S. Mugar Ref. X GR 105.
		Folklore and Literature in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies of Folklore in American Literature.
		Folklore and Literature of the British Isles: An Annotated Bibliography.
	www.bu.edu /library/guides/folklore.html (1649 words)

	The Peter & Iona Opie Collection of Folklore and Related Topics IU Lilly Library
		Dorson was Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.
		Boase (Wendy): The Folklore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
		English Traditional Lore: to which is added customs of foreign countries and peoples.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/shorttitle/opie.html (13013 words)

	USU English Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Chicago Folklore Prize is given annually for the best folklore book throughout the world, and is the most prestigious award for scholarly work in that field.
		She has taught middle school English, served as editorial staff on two scholarly journals, and has worked since 2000 as marketing manager for the Utah State University Press, a scholarly publisher of books in history, folklore, nature, and English composition studies.
		Associate Professor of English Evelyn Funda received an honorable mention in the Frederick Manfred Award competition for “Best Creative Writing Submission to WLA.” Funda’s selection, “Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament” is part of a memoir focusing on Funda’s childhood in rural Idaho, that uses the weed, "dodder," as a metaphor.
	english.usu.edu /Document/index.asp?parent=6590 (4282 words)

	Fields of Graduate Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Those English PhDs who develop a strong secondary field in film studies become conversant with the parameters of the discipline, learn how to write scholarly articles in the field, and gain teaching experience in film, and thus they greatly enhance their prospects as job candidates within English departments.
		Folklore courses examine the historical, cultural, social, and psychological dimensions of such expressive forms as myth, speech, legend, music, dance, art, and architecture.
		Folklore Component: Twelve additional courses (of which most must be at the 600 level, and three must be in English).
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~engl/fields/gradfields.html (4013 words)

	Folklore English
		The Department of Folklore Studies, along with the departments of Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, belongs administratively to the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Cultural Research.
		The Department of Folklore Studies is located at Mariankatu 11, right across the street from the Finnish Literature Society and Folklore Archives.
		Folklore has been recognised as an academic subject in Finland for over a century.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/folkloristiikka/folkeng.htm (1557 words)

	USU English Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Both of these emphases allow for interdisciplinary, interdepartmental work in English, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, as well as other fields which may be germane to the student’s particular focus.
		Graduate students in folklore at USU have opportunities to work with these resources, as well as to participate in ongoing fieldwork projects.
		These additional courses can come from the other folklore offerings or from other departments that offer graduate-level courses in areas that public folklorists might need, such as: photography, radio broadcasting, video and film-making, multimedia, writing for the public, grant and proposal writing, administration, budgeting, policy-making and museum skills.
	english.usu.edu /Document/index.asp?Parent=563 (535 words)

	Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A Dictionary of English Folklore is the sort of book that one can dip into at random, or use as a serious reference work.
		It is often thought by many folklorists that English folklore is not nearly as rich as its Celtic counterparts in Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, and Scotland, or the Nordic countries with which England shares some commonalities of folklore themes.
		English folklore has been neglected in part because -- like English traditional music -- it simply isn't as hot or marketable as Celtic folklore.
	www.greenmanreview.com /oxfordfolklore.html (1038 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Dictionary of English Folklore: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is an indispensable reference book that does for English folklore what Jan Harold Brunvand's American Folklore: An Encyclopedia did for that of the USA--providing a reliable summary of modern scholarship in a form that is itself entertaining and provocative.
		I have read issues of the Folklore journal, and have always been allured by the true origins of folklore, rather than the fanciful relics of ancient practice theories.
		However, this book also takes into account the fact that folklore is not dead, it carries on creating itself in the forms of urban legends, rumours etc, and that todays gossip could become tommorows legend.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198607660 (1331 words)

	North Carolina Folklore Society -Resources
		Family folklore; folklife of special groups: deaf folk narrative, bikers, birders; women's cultures; folk medicine; foodways and festival; traditional poetry; situating personal identity in group-based cultural forms; folklore and education.
		Pursuing an M.A. in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		M.A., Folklore, and Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
	www.ecu.edu /ncfolk/folklorists.htm (1559 words)

	BUBL LINK: Folklore
		An encyclopaedia of mythology, folklore and legend, containing over 4700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from around the world.
		Resources cover aspects of mythology and folklore that are connected to the likes of calendar customs, including information on the quarter days, and themes that are found in both Eastern and Western cultures, such as the fertility symbol of the Green Man and rites of passage.
		Traditional customs and the folklore of Orkney are detailed, with images and texts relating to the annual festivals and sea tales.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/f/folklore.htm (1038 words)

	Legends - Ballads and Broadsides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by the Reverend Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore from 1782, is the wellspring of ballad collecting and ballad scholarship in England.
		Samuel Pepys' Ballads at the English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800 features facsimile images of 1,857 ballads in the Samuel Pepys collection at the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with transcriptions, backgropund essays, and notes.
		A Book of Old English Ballads with an Accompaniment of Decorative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards and an Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie (1896), part of the Internet Sacred Text Archive's English folklore collection.
	legends.dm.net /ballads (1076 words)

	UL Lafayette: CCET Associates: Marcia Gaudet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She is the author of Tales From the Levee: The Folklore of St. John the Baptist Parish and co-author of Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft.
		She was editor of Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, the journal of the Louisiana Folklore Society, from 1995-2000.
		Gaudet served as the American Folklore Society Liaison to the Modern Language Association from 1992-1998, and she served as co-chair of the 1995 American Folklore Society Meeting in Lafayette.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /02a_Center_Associates_Bios/Gaudet_Marcia.html (328 words)

	English 491 - Folklore and Gender syllabus, Spring 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Introduction to folklore as a bridge between literary studies and anthropology.
		The Folklore Society of Greater Washington sponsors many events by both traditional and revivalist performers--dances several nights a week (square, contra, and international), song and storytelling concerts, gospel sings, sacred harp sings, and story and song-swapping evenings.
		Here, folklore scholars, students, and those interested in folklore gather to give papers on their research, see new folklore films, talk about what's new in folklore, and enjoy each other's company--often over a good meal.
	mason.gmu.edu /~myocom/courses/courses_491gender.htm (3099 words)

	English Garden Help and Information
		English Lavender is the traditional flower of Feminine luck, worn by brides, maidens and women of all ages.
		English folklore records that daisies were scattered by fairies to cheer up parents whose children have died.
		The English common marigold or pot marigold, was and is a traditional flower in every English Garden.
	www.bellaonline.com /site/englishgarden (201 words)

	[No title]
		Ph.D. in folklore with minors in English and anthropology: Indiana University, 1974 --Dissertation title: "The American Folk Church: A Characterization of American Folk Religion Based on Field Research Among White Protestants in a Community in the South Central United States" (Director: Richard M. Dorson)
		The Folklore of Texan Cultures, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy.
		Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert, edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg.
	www.clt.astate.edu /wclement/VITA.HTM (3224 words)

	* Ø* Wilson's Almanac \| Hocktide Ransom \| Hocktide Hock tide Hoketide Easter Eastertide English folklore Church ...
		For in a hard-working society, it is rare and even subversive to celebrate too much, to revel and keep on reveling: to stop whatever you’re doing and rave, pray, throw things, go into trances, jump over bonfires, drape yourself in flowers, stay up all night, and scoop the froth from the sea.
		He tells us that the Danes' inhuman behaviour drew upon them at length the general resentment of the English in King Ethelred's reign; so that in one day (St. Brice's Day A.D. 1001) they were entirely cut off in a general massacre.
		The 19th-Century English folklorist, Robert Chambers, notes that it is hard to see why collection of money would relate to overthrow of Danes.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /hocktide.html (1720 words)

	Mythology @Web English Teacher
		Folksy retellings of a variety of tales: Native American myths and legends, weather folklore, ghost stories, and tall tales of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
		English words with origins in Greek and Roman mythology.
		Lesson plans and teaching resources for the archetype of the hero's journey or quest, sometimes called the monomyth.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /myth.html (654 words)

	Acerca de la Revista de Investigaciones Folclóricas
		Revista de Investigaciones Folclóricas (Journal of Folklore Research), RIF from here, emerged as the result of our interest in concentrating the Argentine and Latin-American Folklore production that was scattered in several periodicals, and thus, difficult to locate.
		Articles dealing with issues related to Folklore Studies, but shared, at the same time, with the Social Sciences and Humanities are also welcome.
		RIF's eight first volumes were sponsored by the Department of Folklore of the Institute of Anthropology, that belongs to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires.
	www.geocities.com /xbustosx/about.htm (294 words)

	English Folklore
		This section has texts about the folklore and legends of England and other resources at sacred-texts about the British Isles.
		Some of the English folklore texts on this page were originally transcribed by Phillip Brown at his now-defunct belinus.co.uk website.
		The works of the prominent English writer and artist, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, predecessor of Tolkien, and translator of Icelandic Sagas.
	sacred-texts.com /neu/eng (500 words)

	OUP: Dictionary of English Folklore: Simpson
		The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life.
		Similarly, folklore is as much a feature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, and of every age group and occupation.
		Containing 1,250 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-860766-0 (553 words)

	UCLA Folk Medicine: Citations
		"Folklore of the Negroes of Jamaica." Folk-Lore, 15 (1904), 87-94; 206-214; 450-456.
		Farrington, Oliver "The Worship and Folklore of Meteorites" JAF, 13 (1900) 199-208
		"Folklore from the Half-Breeds in Nova Scotia." JAF 38 (1925), 300-315.
	www.folkmed.ucla.edu /citations.html (12406 words)

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