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Folklore Studies Books
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The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 129 ratings — published 1968
Folklore and Fakelore: Essays Toward a Discipline of Folk Studies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1976
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6,389 ratings — published 1975
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife of the West, Vol. 2)
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avg rating 4.14 — 43 ratings — published 2003
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,613 ratings — published 1911
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 280 ratings — published 1992
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published 1997
Folklore Matters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published 1989
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 521 ratings — published 1987
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 54,317 ratings — published 1988
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,227 ratings — published 1928
The Study of Folklore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 39 ratings — published 1965
Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 2015
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 179 ratings — published 2008
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,073 ratings — published 1888
The Hidden World: Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 2007
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 336 ratings — published 2000
The Forest in Folklore and Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 243 ratings — published 2001
The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 331 ratings — published 1951
The Good People: New Fairylore Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 35 ratings — published 1991
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 188 ratings — published 1978
Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57 ratings — published 1989
Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 129 ratings — published 2004
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 60,745 ratings — published 1942
The Meanings of "Beauty & The Beast": A Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 44 ratings — published 2004
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 222,688 ratings — published 1812
International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 24 ratings — published 1999
Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
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avg rating 3.74 — 99 ratings — published 2009
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,477 ratings — published 1994
The Vampire: A Casebook (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 218 ratings — published 1998
Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
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avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published 2012
Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 33 ratings — published 2011
Folk and Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 513 ratings — published 2002
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,059 ratings — published 1981
Verbal Art As Performance (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 63 ratings — published 1984
American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent (Folkloristics)
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avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 1988
Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Interpreting Folklore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 71 ratings — published 1980
American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
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avg rating 3.47 — 32 ratings — published 1961
A Short History of Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 6,613 ratings — published 2005
All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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avg rating 4.07 — 76 ratings — published 1981
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 39 ratings — published 1996
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 45,819 ratings — published 1949
Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 24 ratings — published 1998
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 22 ratings — published 1991
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 71 ratings — published 1992
The Owl: In Art, Myth, and Legend (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1988
O imaginário da magia : feiticeiras, saludadores e nigromantes no séc. XVI (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published 1987
Handbook of American Folklore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 1983
The African Storyteller: Stories from African Oral Traditions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 29 ratings — published 1990
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which they are interested.
...with regard to fairy stories, I feel that it is more interesting, and also in its way more difficult, to consider what they are, what they have become for us, and what values the long alchemic processes of time have produced in them. In Dasent's words I would say: 'We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.'
Such stories have now a mythical or total (unanalysable) effect, an effect quite independent of the findings of Comparative Folk-lore, and one which it cannot spoil or explain; they open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe.”
― Tolkien On Fairy-stories
...with regard to fairy stories, I feel that it is more interesting, and also in its way more difficult, to consider what they are, what they have become for us, and what values the long alchemic processes of time have produced in them. In Dasent's words I would say: 'We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.'
Such stories have now a mythical or total (unanalysable) effect, an effect quite independent of the findings of Comparative Folk-lore, and one which it cannot spoil or explain; they open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe.”
― Tolkien On Fairy-stories
“Zastanawiałeś się nad tym, co oznacza bycie bogiem? - spytał. Miał brodę i czapeczkę baseballową. - To oznacza odrzucenie egzystencji materialnej i przemianę w mem: coś, co trwa wiecznie w umysłach ludzi, jak dziecięca piosenka. Znaczy to, że każdy odtwarza cię sam w swoim umyśle. Praktycznie nie masz już tożsamości. Stajesz się tysiącem aspektów tego, czego pragną od ciebie ludzie. A każdy pragnie czegoś zupełnie innego. Nic nie jest stałe, nic nie jest niezmienne.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
