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Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore

Folklore
In 2023, the Intelligent Search Engine for Belief Legends (ISEBEL) was made available to the public. ISEBEL is a centralized search engine for the Dutch, North-German, Danish, and Icelandic folktale databases, containing the folktales present in these ...
Myrthe Osse
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The Role of Folklore and Legends in Enriching Narrative Depth: A Study of Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors)

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies
This article examines the role of folklore and legends in enhancing the narrative depth of literature using the book Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors) as a reference point.
Andiswa Mvanyashe
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Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research

Journal of American Folklore
:Persons outside of disability communities often have negative perceptions of disabilities, yet such beliefs may create more problems for people with disabilities than the disability itself.
Teresa Milbrodt
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Reimagining the Role of Folklore in the 21st Century: Don’t We Need New Ones?

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies, 2023
If you ask any South African child who attended school in the 20th century to name one folktale, they will be able to do so without hesitation. But, if you ask children today this identical question, many of them will pause for a long time to think ...
Mantoa Motinyane
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Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting

Journal of American Folklore
:Universities are increasingly turning to the public humanities—humanities work that engages broad audiences outside academia—to address concerns raised by the "crisis in the humanities." In this essay, I demonstrate how the skills and experiences I ...
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
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Folklore in Regional Dictionaries: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Examples from England

Folklore, 2023
Dictionaries are an increasingly acknowledged source of folklore data. For countries with early literacy, industrialization, and urbanization, such as England, this richness is evident for early modern and, especially, nineteenth-century dictionaries ...
J. Roper
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Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts

Journal of American Folklore
:In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can—and should— make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights ...
Nora Ellen Groce
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CHASTUSHKA ON THE INTERNET: BETWEEN FOLKLORE AND STYLIZATION

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
Сhastushka’s – four-line folk ditties, usually humorous, sung in a lively manner, were widely spread during the 20th century. It is believed today that these ditties are the only genre of traditional folklore that still productively and actively exists ...
Ekaterina A. Zakrevskaya
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The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni

Journal of American Folklore
:A cherished Sri Lankan tradition comprising tales from different regions, stories about Kuweni recount how Prince Vijaya from North India took power in Sri Lanka with the help of Kuweni, a native young woman. This study introduces a qualitative thematic
S. Thilakarathne, S. Gopura, A. Wickramasinghe, A. Payne   +3 more
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MODERN PROCESSES IN THE MUSICAL FOLKLORE OF NARYM SELKUPS

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
The article discusses the processes of development of modern musical folklore among the Narym Selkups based on the analysis of the publication “Ob tunes of Narym Selkups” (compiled by V. Tuzakova and I. Korobeynikova, Tomsk, 2015).
O. Dobzhanskaya
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