American folklore
Subtitle: an encyclopedia
By: edited by Jan Harold Brunvand.
Contributors: Brunvand, Jan Harold.
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities ;; vol. 1551
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 794
Subjects: Folklore -- North America -- Encyclopedias; North America -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

LIST OF ENTRIES:
Academe, folklore of -- Academic programs in folklore -- Adirondacks -- African Americans -- Aging, folklore and -- American Folklore Center -- American Folklore scholarship : early years -- American Folklore Society -- American studies and folklore -- Anansi -- Anecdote -- Anglo Americans -- Animals -- Anniversaries -- Anthropological approach -- Anti-legend -- Appalachia -- Applied folklore -- April fool’s day -- Architecture, vernacular -- Archive of folk culture -- Archives, folklore -- Art, folk -- Asch, Moses (1905-1986) -- Auctions -- Austin, Mary Hunter (1868-1934) -- Autoharp -- 

Ballad -- Baltic peoples in the U.S. -- Banjo -- Barbeau, Marius (1883-1969) -- Barnicle, Mary Elizabeth (ca. 1898-1979) -- Barrick, Mac E. (1933-1991) -- Barry, Phillips (1880-1937) -- Bascom, William R. (1912-1981) -- Baseball -- Basketmaking -- Basque Americans -- Bassett, Fletcher S. (1847-1893) -- Baughman, Ernest Warren (1916-1990) -- Beck, Earl Clifton (1891-1977) -- Beck, Martha Warren (1871-1959) -- Belden, Henry Marvin (1865-1954) -- Benedict, Ruth (1887-1990) -- Berea College -- Bigfoot -- Bikers -- Billy the Kid (1859-1881) -- Birders -- Birthdays -- Black English -- Blacksmithing -- Bluegrass -- Blues -- Boaz, Franz (1858-1942) -- Boast -- Boatbuilding -- Boatright, Mody Coggin (1896-1970) -- Bodylore -- Boggs, Ralph Steele (1901-1994) -- Botkin, Benjamin A. (1901-1975) -- Breakdancing -- Brewer, John Mason (1896-1975) -- Brewster, Paul G. (1898-?) -- Bridger, Jim (1804-1881) -- Bronson, Bertrand Harris (1902-1986) -- Broonzy, Big Bill (1893-1958) -- Brother Jonathan -- Brown, Frank Clark (1870-1943) -- Bunyan, Paul -- 

Cadence chant -- Cajuns -- Campa, Arthur Leon (1905-1978) -- Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987) -- Campbell, Marie Alice (1903-1980) -- Campbell, Olive Dame (1882-1954) -- Camplore -- Canadian folklore (Anglophone) -- Canadian folklore scholarship -- Canadian studies and folklore -- Canal lore -- Cansler, Loman D. (1924-1992) -- Carmer, Carl Lamson (1893-1976) -- Carrière, Joseph Mèdard (1902-1970) -- Carson, Fiddlin’ John (1868-1949) -- Carter family -- Cassidy, Butch (Robert Leroy Parker)(1866- ca. 1908?) -- Catfish -- Cemeteries -- Center for the Study of Southern Culture -- Chanteys -- Chase, Richard (1904-1988) -- Child, Francis James (1825-1896) -- Children -- Chinese Americans -- Christensen, Abigail Mandana (“Abbie”) Holmes (1852-1938) -- Christeson, Robert Perry (1911-1992) -- Christmas -- City lore -- Civil War -- Coding in American folk culture -- Cold War -- Columbus Day -- Combs, Josiah H. (1886-1960) -- Comparative approach -- Computer folklore -- Con artist -- Conjunto music -- Conroy, Jack (1898-1990) -- Conspiracy theories -- Contextual approach -- Corridos -- Cortez, Gregorio (1875-1916) -- Costume, folk -- Country music -- Courlander, Harold (1908-) -- Cousin Jack stories -- Cow tipping -- Cowboy poetry -- Cowboys -- Cox, John Harrington (1863-1945) -- Coyote -- Crafts -- Crane, Thomas Frederick (1844-1927) -- Creighton, Helen (1899-1989) -- Crimelore -- Crockett, Davy (1786-1836) -- Culin, Stewart (1858-1929) -- Cults -- Cultural conservation -- Cultural landscape -- Cultural studies -- Curanderos -- Cursing -- Custom -- 

Dance, folk -- Davidson, Levette Jay (1894-1957) -- Davis, Arthur Kyle, Jr. (1897-1972) -- Deaf folklore -- Densmore, Frances (1867-1957) -- Dialect story -- Disaster folklore -- Dixon, Willie (1915-1992) -- Dobie, J. Frank (1888-1964) -- Dorson, Richard M. (1916-1981) -- Dowsing -- Dozens -- Drama, folk -- Dulcimer -- Dusenbury, Emma Hays (1862-1941) -- Dutch Americans -- 

Easter -- Eaton, Allen (1878-1962) -- Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy (1865-1946) -- Eddy, Mary O. (1877-1967) -- Education, folklife in -- Elvis (1935-1977) -- Empowerment -- Emrich, Duncan B.M. (1908-1977) -- Epitaph -- Esoteric / exoteric factor in folklore -- Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio (1880-1958) -- Ethics in folklore research -- Ethnic folklore -- Ethnic stereotypes -- Ethnomusicology -- Etymology, folk popular -- 

Fable -- Fairies -- Fairs -- Fakelore -- Family folklore -- Farmers -- Feminist approaches to folklore -- Festival -- Festival of American folklore -- Fiddle music -- Fieldwork -- Fiesta -- Fife, Austin E. (1909-1986) -- Filipino Americans -- Filk music -- Film & folklore -- Fink, Mike -- Finnish Americans -- Fishing (commercial) -- Fishing (sports) -- Flanders, Helen Hartness (1890-1972) -- Folk ideas -- Folk museums -- Folk schools -- Folk speech -- Folklife movement -- Folklore -- Folklore and American literature -- Folk-say -- Folk song -- Folkways -- Folkways Records -- Foodways -- Fortier, Alcèe (1856-1914) -- Foxfire -- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) -- French Canadians -- French in the U.S. -- Friday the 13th -- Fuller, Blind Boy (Fulton Allen) (1908-1941) -- Functionalism -- Fund for folk culture -- 

Games -- Gardner, Emily Elizabeth (1872-1967) -- Gardner, Gail I. (1892-1988) -- Gayton, Anna Hadwick (1899-1977) -- Gender & folklore -- German Americans -- Gerould, Gordon Hall (1877-1953) -- Gestures -- Ghost stories -- Gordon, Robert Winslow (1888-1961) -- Gospel music -- Gossip -- Graffiti -- Gravemarkers -- Great Basin -- Great Lakes -- Great Plains -- Greek Americans -- Greenway, John (1919-1991) -- Groundhog Day -- Guillonèe -- Gulf War -- Gummere, Francis Barton (1855-1919) -- Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967) -- Gypsies --

Halloween -- Hand, Weyland D. (1907-1986) -- Handcox, John L. (1904-1992) -- Handy, W.C. (1873-1958) -- Harris, Joel Chandler (1948?-1908) -- Henry, John -- Henry, Lorenzo (“Len”) (1852?-1946) -- Henry, Mellinger Edward (1873-1946) -- Herskovits Melville Jean (1895-1963) -- Herzog, George (1901-1983) -- Hicks-Harmon families -- Hill, Joe (1879-1950) -- History, folk -- Hoedown -- Holler -- Howard, Dorothy Mills (1902-) -- Hudson, Arthur Palmer (1892-1978) -- Humor -- Hungarian Americans -- Hunting -- Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) -- Hyatt, Harry M. (1896-1978) -- 

Immigrant folklore, study of -- Independence Day -- Index of American design -- Irish Americans -- Irving, Washington (1783-1859) -- Italian Americans -- Ives, Burl (1909-1995) -- 

Jack tales -- Jackalope -- Jackson, George Pullen (1874-1953) -- Jackson, Mary Magdalene (Garland; “Aunt Molly”) (1880-1960) -- James, Jesse Woodson (1847-1882) -- James, Thelma Grey (1899-1988) -- James, R.D. (1895-1959) -- Jansen, William Hugh (1914-1979) -- Japanese Americans -- Jazz -- Jefferson, Blind Lemon (1893-1929) -- Jersey Devil -- Jewish Americans -- John Edwards Memorial Foundation -- Johnny Appleseed -- Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940) -- Johnson, Guy Benton (1901-1991) -- Johnson, Robert (1911-1938) -- Johnson, Tommy (1896-1956) -- Jokes -- Jones, Hathaway (1870-1937) -- Jones, John Luther (“Casey”) (1863-1900) -- Jones, Louis Clark (1908-1990) -- Jones, Louis Marshall (“Grandpa”) (1913-) -- Juke joint -- Juneteenth -- 

Kirkland, Edwin Capers (1903-1972) -- Kittredge, George Lyman (1860-1941) -- Klezmer music -- Knortz, Karl (1841-1918) -- Knott, Sarah Gertrude (1895-1984) -- Knox, George (1862-1892) -- Köngäs-Maranda, Elli (1932-1982) -- Korean Americans -- Korean War -- Korson, George (1899-1967) -- Korson, Rae Rosenblatt (1901-1990) -- Krappe, Alexander Haggerty (1894-1947) -- Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch (1903-1992) -- Kwanzaa -- 

La llorona -- Labor Day -- Lacourclère, Luc (1910-1989) -- Larkin, Margaret (1899-1967) -- Lawyers -- Leach, MacEdward (1892-1967) -- Leadbetter, Huddie (“Lead belly”) (1888-1949) -- Lee, Hector H. (1908-1992) -- Legend -- Legend trip -- Lesbians -- Life history -- Linscott, Eloise Hubbard (1897-1978) -- Local-character anecdote -- Loggers -- Lomax, John Avery (1867-1948) -- Loomis, C. Grant (1901-1963) -- Lord, Albert Bates (1912-1991) -- Lover’s leaps -- Lullaby -- Lunsford, Bascom Lamar (1882-1973) -- Luomala, Katherine (1907-1992) -- Lyric song -- 

Macon, David Harrison (“Uncle Dave”) (1870-1952) -- Magarac, Joe -- Maritime folklore -- Marxist approach -- Mason, Otis Tufton (1838-1908) -- Mass media & folklore -- Material culture -- McCoy, Minnie (“Memphis Minnie”) (1897?-1973) -- McTell, Blind Willie (1901-1959) -- Medical professionals -- Medicine, folk -- Memorate -- Mercer, Henry Chapman (1856-1930) -- Merchant seamen -- Metafolklore -- Mexican Americans -- Middle Atlantic region -- Midwest -- Midwifery -- Military folklore -- Miners -- Minstrel shows -- Mnemonic devices -- Mojo -- Monroe, Bill (1911) -- Monsters -- Mooney, James (1861-1921) -- Morgan, Gibb (1842-1909) -- Mormon folklore -- Moser, Artus M. (1894-1992) -- Music, Ruth Ann (1897-1974) -- Myth -- 

Namelore -- National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) -- National Folk Festival -- National Heritage Fellows -- Needlework -- New Deal & folk culture -- New England -- Newell, William Wells (1839-1907) -- Niles, John Jacob (1892-1980) -- Northwest coast & Alaska -- Nuclear lore -- Nye, Pearl R. (1872-1950) -- 

Occupational folklore -- Odum, Howard Washington (1884-1954) -- Ohrlin, Glenn (1926-) -- Oilworkers -- Opossum -- Oral-formulaic approach -- Organizational folklore-- Ouija -- Outlaw -- Outsider art -- Owen, Mary Alicia (1850-1935-) -- Ozarks -- 

Paper cutting -- Parler, Mary Celestia (1905-1981) -- Parody in folklore -- Parsons, Elsie Clews (1975-1941) -- Passover -- Patton, Charlie (Charley) (1891-1934) -- Pecos Bill -- Peddler’s cry -- Peer, Ralph Sylvester (1892-1960) -- Pennsylvania culture region -- Pennsylvania Germans (“Dutch”) -- Performance approach -- Perrow, Eber Carl (1880-1968) -- Personal-experience story -- Pictorial tale -- Piedmont region -- Plantlore -- Play-party -- Poetry, folk -- Polish Americans -- Politics & folklore -- Popular culture & folklore -- Polka -- Portuguese Americans -- Postmodernism -- Pottery -- Pound, Louise (1872-1958) -- Powwow -- Prank -- Prayer -- Pregnancy & birth Printers, journeymen -- Prison folklore -- Proffitt, Frank Noah (1913-1965) -- Proverbs -- Psychology & folklore -- Public folklore -- Puckett, Newbell Niles “Barry” (1897-1967) -- 

Quilt making -- 

Radio, amateur -- Railroaders -- Rainey, Gertrude “Ma” (1886-1939) -- Randolph, Vance (1892-1980) -- Recitation -- Regional folklore -- Religion, folk -- Reuss, Richard August (1940-1986) -- Revolutionary War -- Richmond, W. Edson (1916-1994) -- Rickaby, Franz (1889-1925) -- Riddle, Almeda (1898-1986) -- Riddle -- Riddles & puzzles -- Rinzler, Ralph Carter (1934-1994) -- Ritchie, Jean (1922-) -- Robb, John Donald (1892-1989) -- Roberts, Leonard Ward (1912-1983) -- Robinson, Rowland E. (1833-1900) -- Rocky mountains -- Rodeo -- Rodgers, James Charles (“Jimmie”) (1897-1933) -- Romanian Americans -- Rumor -- 

Saint’s Day -- Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) -- Saxon, Lyle (1891-1946) -- Scandinavian Americans -- Scarborough, Emily Dorothy (1878-1935) -- Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) -- Scottish Americans -- Seeger, Charles Louis (1886-1979) -- Seeger, Pete (1919) -- Semiotic approach -- Sermon, folk -- Shape-note singing -- Sharp, Cecil James (1859-1924) -- Sheep camp -- Sheepherder -- Shine -- Shivaree -- Shoemaker, Alfred L. (1913-?) -- Shoemaker, Henry Wharton (1882-1958) -- Shout -- Skinner, Charles M. (1852-1907) -- Slavic Americans -- Smith, Abraham (“Oregon”) (1796-1893) -- Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) -- Smith, Grace Partridge (1869-1959) -- Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies -- Social protest in folklore -- Sociological approach -- Solstices, summer & winter -- South -- Southern Arts Federation Folk Programs -- Southwest -- Spirituals, African-American -- St. Patrick’s Day -- Stagolee -- Steelworkers -- Stepping -- Storytelling -- Structural approach -- Stubblefield, Blaine (“Stub”) (1896-1960) -- Superstition -- 

Talking trash -- Tall tale -- Talley, Thomas Washington (1870-1952) -- Tamburitza -- Tattooing -- Taylor, Archer (1890-1973) -- Terry, Sonny (Sanders Turell) (1911-1986) -- Thanksgiving Day -- Thomas, Jeanette Bell (1881-1982) -- Thompson, Harold W. (1891-1963) -- Thompson, Stith (1885-1976) -- Thorp, Nathan Howard (“Jack”) (1867-1940) -- Toast -- Tongue twister -- Tooth fairy -- Toys, folk -- Trapping -- Travis, Merle Robert (1917-1983) -- Trickster -- Trucker’s folklore -- Turnbo, Silas Claiborne (1844-1925) -- Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- 

UFO lore -- Ukrainian Americans -- Uncle Remus -- Urban folklore -- Urban legend -- Utley, Francis Lee (1907-1974) -- 

Valentine’s Day -- Vampires -- Vernacular -- Vietnam War -- 

Walton, Ivan (1893-1968) -- Ward, Marshall (1906-1981) -- Warner, Frank (1903-1978) & Anne Locher Warner (1905-1991) -- Watermen -- Walters, Muddy (McKinley Morganfield) (1915-1983) -- Watson, Arthel (“Doc”) (1923-) -- Weatherlore -- Weaving -- Weddings -- Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (1891-1979) -- Welsh Americans -- Wends (Sorbs) in the U.S. -- White, John I. (1902-1992) -- White, Newman Ivey (1892-1948) -- Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) -- Wills, Bob (1905-1975) -- Wiseman, Lulu Belle (1913) & Scotty Wiseman (1909-1981) -- Witchcraft -- Wolf, John Quincy Jr. (1901-1972) -- Wood carving -- Worksong -- World Wars I & II -- 

Xeroxlore -- Yarn -- Zydecko.
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