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  • An interesting article by M..H. C. C.ote on "Folk-Lore, the source of some of M. Galland's Tales," will be found in the _Folk-Lore

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • The plot of the Dutch romance of _Walewein_ was discussed in a paper submitted to the Folk-Lore Society two years ago, and published in the journal of the Society (_Folk-Lore_, vol.v. p. 121).

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • -- These cures and a few other superstitions have been taken from a very interesting paper, "Notes on the Folk-Lore of Newfoundland," in the _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, vol. viii.

    Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873

  • Additional riddles posed by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon are to be found in the Targum literature, in Targum Sheni to Esth. 1: 3; and in the late midrash: Midrash Hefez, published by S. Schechter, Folk-Lore 1 (1890), pp. 349 – 358.

    Queen of Sheba: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • Stewart Cullin, “Retrospect of the Folk-Lore of the Columbian Exposition,” in Journal of American Folklore 7 8: 51-59, quoted in Robert Cantwell, “Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife,” in Crossroads, Virginia.edu.

    Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001

  • Folk-Lore in the Old Testament (London, 1918); idem,

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • "Journal of American Folk-Lore" (20: 100), whence it has been reprinted by M.C. C.le (p. 212), "The Hawk and the Hen."

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • (Folk-Lore in the Old Testament [1918], 1: 297), who writes as follows: --

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • A Tagalog folk-tale printed in the "Journal of American Folk-Lore"

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review, current since 1890.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

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