FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2339588
Kristen Mills
{"title":"Baldr, Ymir, and the Myth of the First Death in Old Norse Mythology (Part 1)","authors":"Kristen Mills","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2339588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2339588","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the myth of the death of the Norse god Baldr in a comparative framework. Scholars working in the fields of comparative mythology and religion have long argued that a myth concer...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320036
Paul Cowdell
{"title":"Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston","authors":"Paul Cowdell","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320036","url":null,"abstract":"While neither William Forsell Kirby (1844–1912) nor William Alexander Clouston (1843–96) is entirely unfamiliar, both have been rather eclipsed in our knowledge of the early history of British folk...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321043
Barbara Żebrowska-Mazur
{"title":"Traditional Polish Finger Games","authors":"Barbara Żebrowska-Mazur","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321043","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to describe traditional Polish finger games. The constitutive features of the genre of finger play are indicated, as well as the positive impact of the accompanying words on b...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141552653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321687
Caroline Oates
{"title":"William Francis (Will) Ryan (1937–2023)","authors":"Caroline Oates","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2321687","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Folklore (Vol. 135, No. 2, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141515425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kusaal Folktales: Communicative Tools for Preserving Indigenous Cultural Values in Ghanaian Marriages","authors":"Hasiyatu Abubakari, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah, Abigail Opoku Mensah","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2347731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2347731","url":null,"abstract":"Among the Kusaas of Ghana, folktales convey messages that touch on every aspect of the socio-cultural and socio-economic lives of the people. This study discusses the use of folktales to communicat...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141515424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memorable Dances from the Days of War: A Study on the Form and Meaning of Kurdish Dances in North-Eastern Iran","authors":"Majidreza Moghanipour, Babak Shamshiri, Ashkan Rahmani, Samane Radfar","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2325253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2325253","url":null,"abstract":"Kurdish folk dance is popular among Kurds living in north-eastern Iran and is performed in a circle. In this study, we investigate the formal structure and symbolic meaning of these dances through ...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320492
Sadhana Naithani
{"title":"When Humans, Animals, and Plants Talk to Each Other","authors":"Sadhana Naithani","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2320492","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an adapted version of the 2023 David Buchan Memorial Lecture. Humans, animals, and plants talk to each other in songs, stories, legends, and other forms of creative expressions enco...","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351283
James H. Grayson
{"title":"Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID and Play in a Covid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation","authors":"James H. Grayson","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351283","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Folklore (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141515426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FOLKLOREPub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351281
Simon Young
{"title":"The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit\u0000 The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit.\u0000 By Rose A. Sawyer. Martlesham, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2023. 272 pp. Illus. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 978-1-84384-651-2. Also available as an e-book.","authors":"Simon Young","doi":"10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2024.2351281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141347954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}