Folklore articles

Recent articles from Folklore

Was the vampire of the eighteenth century a unique type of undead-corpse?(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2006... Abstract In his Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (1746), Calmet argued that although Western Europe may have witnessed troublesome revenants in the past, the vampires of Eastern Europe were a unique type of undead-corpse. In this paper, I examine the characteristic features of the...

From Plato to Pullman--the circle of invisibility and parallel worlds: Fortunatus, Mercury, and the Wishing-Hat, Part II.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Abstract In this sequel to the article in the August edition of Folklore on the early German prose text Fortunatus, the history of the Wishing-Hat is continued up to the present with selective examples. Two major themes--the moral implications of invisibility, and the nature of movement...

Filming fairies: popular film, audience response and meaning in contemporary fairy lore.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Abstract This study examines the idea of fairy lore (faery) as a modern concept with personal and humanistic overtones transmitted through mass media phenomena such as films. Analysis of the relationship between folk and popular culture has become increasingly sophisticated and has...

Festivals as celebrations of place in modern society: two examples from Norway.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2006... Abstract This article concerns the role of festivals in marking places as unique and interesting in the modern world. Two festivals from two peripheral areas are discussed--one is a revitalisation of a saint's feast dating back to medieval times, and the other is a new construction from...

Celticity and storyteller identity: the use and misuse of ethnicity to develop a storyteller's sense of self.(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2006... Abstract This paper looks at the self-representation of contemporary or revival storytellers claiming "Celtic" identity for themselves as storytellers, largely based on imagined traits of generic "Celtic" storytellers and storytelling styles, and content, which are conveyed via...