Folklore Studies

Contains over 500 articles, ranging over a wide variety of topics such as foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings...

This work is an award winning compendium of authors, concepts, motifs, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world. * Provides an informatiove introduction * Includes extensive cross references and a bibliography

Designed for students, scholars, and general readers, this work focuses on folklore forms and methods from a cross-cultural, theoretical perspective. * Entries are cross referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research.

An authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature.