Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

BOTH these books appeared opportunely. Their date of publication falling near the jubilee congress of the Folklore Society, they served to supplement the proceedings of that congress in demonstrating ...

The spooky fest is all about traditions that go back 2000 years Before it was a Halloween staple, the term jack-o’-lantern wasn’t about pumpkins at all—it described the “ignis fatuus” (literally ...

Geoffrey I. L. Gomme, R. V. H. Burne, M. F. Irvine, Harriet M. Smith, Florence M. Brown, Barbara Freire-Marreco and R. Dyke Acland Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore ...

IN her introduction to this collection of English popular beliefs and customs, the author remarks on the relative poverty of the English tradition in this respect when compared with that of the Celtic ...