Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 159
A Short Collection of Logger's Practical Jokes (And Other Folkloric Tidbits)
Collection
Identifier: 1982 055
A treasury of Afro-American folklore : : the oral literature, traditions, recollections, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sayings, and humor of peoples of African descent in the Americas / / [compiled] by Harold Courlander ; decorations by Enrico Arno.
Item
Identifier: GR103 .T73 1976
Overview
In this anthology, "A Treasure of Afro-American Folklore", Harold Courlander brings together oral traditions of black communities in the Western Hemisphere and demonstrates the powerful cultural influence on Africa on this side of the Atlantic. Afro-American folklore includes a wide array of orally transmitted traditions of the numerous, sometimes disparate, Negro cultures of the New World. Among these traditions are tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking adventures, friendship, and much more,...
Aarne, Antti. Verzeichnis der Märchentypen. The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography.
Item
Identifier: GR1 .F55 no. 184 1961
West Coast Sea Folklore (parts originated on the East Coast)
Collection
Identifier: 1976 021
Overview
Elizabeth Abrams was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Student Folklore Fieldwork Project
Collection
Identifier: 2018 181
Overview
Beau Acoba was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Indian Folktales, Legends and Other Items
Collection
Identifier: 1970 137
Overview
Linda J. Adams was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Speech, Customs, Recipes, Folk Medicine, Costume, and Legends from Southeast Portland and Scotland
Collection
Identifier: 1973 008
Overview
Laurie Almand was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
American Negro folktales: / collected with introd. and notes by Richard M. Dorson.
Item
Identifier: GR103 .D58
Scope and Contents
The setting -- Origins of American Negro tales -- The communities and the storytellers -- The art of Negro storytelling -- The history of James Douglas Suggs -- The tales -- Animal and bird stories -- Old Marster and John -- Colored man and white man -- Hoodoos and two-heads -- Spirits and hants -- Witches and mermaids -- The Lord and the Devil -- Wonders -- Horrors -- Protest tales -- Scare tales -- Fool tales -- Lying tales -- Preachers -- Irishmen.
Negro Ghost Stories
Collection
Identifier: 1970 036
Overview
Anonymous was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Apples of immortality: : folktales of Armenia / [by] Leon Surmelian; illustrated by Stewart Irwin.
Item
Identifier: GR280 .S9 1968b
Scope and Contents
Wonder tales : Apples of immortality ; The swineherd ; Rose-maiden ; Tale of the lad with golden locks ; Magic candlestick ; The bird-peri ; Jan-Polad: steel-monster ; The red cow ; The peasant's son and the forty robbers ; Zulvisia ; Tale of the laughing fish ; The woodcutter ; Tale of the hunter's son ; Sun-maid and dragon-prince ; Alo-dino and the nightingale of a thousand songs, Hazaran Bulbul ; Brother-lamb ; Tale of a boy's dream ; Tale of the wizard ; Faithful wife ; The boy who did not...
Filtered By
- Subject: Tales X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Names
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 2
- Aarne, Antti, 1867-1925. 1
- Babloi︠a︡n (Babloyan), Robert. 1
- Baughman, Ernest Warren, 1916- 1
- Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996. 1
- Dégh, Linda. 1
- Dimock, Edward C 1
- Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981 1
- Finnish-American Literary Heritage Foundation 1
- Ghose, Sudhindra Nath 1
- Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 1
- Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 1
- Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) 1
- Megas, Geōrgios A. 1
- Meine, Franklin Julius, 1896-1968. 1
- Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999 1
- Paulaharju, Samuli, 1875-1944. 1
- Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) 1
- Surmelian, Leon Z., 1905-1995. 1
- Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976. 1 ∧ less
∨ more