Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art

V. 1. A-D

v. 2. E-L

v. 3. M-X.

Volume 1: A-D -- Academic programs in folklore, international -- Academic programs in folklore, North American -- Acculturation -- Activism -- Aesthetics -- African American folklore -- African folklore -- Aging -- Altar, home -- Amerasians: folklores of mixed heritage, mixed race Asian Americans -- American Indian folklore scholarship -- American Indian tales -- Anansi -- Anecdote -- Animals -- Animal tale -- Anthropological approach -- Anthropology, symbolic -- Antiquarianism -- Appalachian folklore -- Applied folklore/folkloristics -- Arab Gulf states folklore -- Arabian nights -- Archetype -- Architecture, folk -- Archives and archiving -- Art, folk -- Arthurian lore -- Asian American humor and folklore -- Asian American literature and folklore -- Asian American popular culture and folklore -- Assault, supernatural -- Audience -- Authenticity -- Autograph book -- Ballad -- Bard -- Beauty and the beast -- Belief, folk -- Belief, tale -- Bluegrass: homegrown music -- Borderlands folklore -- Broadside ballad -- Cantometrics -- Carnival -- Celtic folklore and mythology -- Chapbook -- Charivari/Shivaree -- Charm -- Childbirth and childrearing -- Children's folk heroes -- Children's folklore -- Chinese folklore -- Choreometrics -- Cinderella -- Clever question/wisdom question -- Communal origins theory -- Communitas -- Community-based research -- Comparative mythology -- Computer-mediated folklore -- Conduit theory/multiconduit theory -- Contestation -- Context -- Cosmology -- Costume, folk -- Craft, folk -- Creation myths -- Cryptozoology -- Cultural property -- Cultural relativism -- Cultural studies -- Culture hero -- Custom -- Cyberculture -- Dance, folk -- Deathlore -- Deconstruction -- Diachronic/synchronic -- Dialogism -- Diffusion -- Dilemma tales -- Discourse analysis -- Dite -- Divination -- Drama, folk -- Volume 2: E-L -- Emic/etic -- Enigma, folk -- Environmentalism -- Ephemera -- Epic -- Epic laws -- Erotic folklore -- Eschatology -- Esoteric/exoteric factor -- Ethnic folklore -- Ethnoaesthetics -- Ethnography -- Ethnology -- Ethnomusicology -- Ethnopoetics -- Ethiological narrative -- Euhemerism -- Evolutionary theory -- Exorcism -- Fabulate -- Faerie and fairy lore -- Fairy tale heroes -- Fakelore -- Family folklore -- Feast -- Feminist perspectives on folklore scholarship -- Festival -- Fieldwork -- Film, folklore -- Folk culture -- Folk group -- Folklife -- Folklore -- Folkorismus/folklorism -- Folk schools -- Folksong, lyric -- Folksong, narrative -- Folktale -- Foodways -- Fool -- Formula -- Frame -- Freedom songs -- Freudian psychology -- Frontier folk hero's -- Functionalism -- Games, folk -- Gay (LGBTQ) studies and queer theory -- Gender -- Genre -- Gesture -- Gesunkenes Kulturgut -- Giants -- Globalization -- Gossip -- Graffiti -- Great tradition/little tradition -- Grimm brothers -- Helpers, folk -- Hemispheric approach -- Hero/heroine, folk -- Historical analysis -- Historic-geographic method -- History,folk -- History, oral -- Holidays and commemorations -- Hybrid -- Hymn, folk -- Icelandic sagas -- Immigration -- Indian folklore -- Inscription -- Internet -- Invented tradition -- Jack and the beanstalk -- Japanese folklore -- Jewelry -- Jewish folktales -- Joke -- Jungian psychology -- King Arthur -- Language, play -- Language, secret -- Latino folklore -- Legend -- Legend, contemporary -- Legend, urban -- Life-cycle ritual -- Life history -- Liminality -- Linguistic approach -- Literary approach -- Little red riding hood -- Local heroes --

Volume 3: M-X

Magic

Magicians

Magic tale

Martial arts and folklore

Marxist approach

Mask

Material culture

Medicine, folk

Memorate

Memorial shrine

Metacommunication

Midwifery

Migration

Mnemonic

Mobility

Modernization

Monogenesis/polygenesis

Motif

Mumming

Museum, folk

Music, folk

Musical instrument, folk

Myth

Myth-ritual theory

National folk hero's

Neck riddle

Night hag

Obscenity

Occupational folk hero's

Occupational folklife/folklore

Oikotype/oicotype

Onomastics

Oral-formulaic theory

Oral tradition

Organizational folklore

Paradigmatic/syntagmatic

Parody

Participant-observation method

Pennsylvania Dutch folklore

Performance

Personal experience narrative

Phenomenology

Philological approach

Photography, folk

Pilgrimage

Place

Poetry, folk

Popular culture

Possession

Postforklore

Postmodernism

Protest

Proverb

Psychoanalytic interpretations of folklore

Psychological approach

Public sector folklore

Puppetry

Rapunzel

Rebus

Recitation

Regional approach

Religion, comparative

Religion, folk

Religious folk hero's

Revenant

Reversal

Revitalization

Revivals

Rhetorical analysis

Riddle

Riddle joke

Ritual

Robin Hood

Romantic nationalism

Rumor

Sacred

Sacrifice

Saga

Scatology

Semiotics

Shamanism

Shape-shifters

Sleeping Beauty

Snow White

Speech, folk

Spirit

Storytelling

Structuralism

Style

Supernatural/supranormal

Superorganic theories

Tale type

Text

Textiles

Thompson, Stith

Tourism

Toy, folk

Tradition

Traditionalization

Tradition bearer

Transformation

Transmission

Trickster

UFOs and folklore

Urban folklore

Vampire

Verbal art

Verbal duel

Vernacular

Volkskunde

Werewolf

Women's folklore

Worldview

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