Cleaning the Cupboards!

Time to clean out my aggregator of folklore links!

• The American Folklore Society newsletter for Folklore and Education is out and worth a browse.
• Librarian Amy writes about the benefits of using folktales as a literacy tools in libraries servicing Latino communities.
• Two of my favorite scholars - Bill Ellis and Gary Allan Fine - have collaborated on a book on rumor and terrorism. The new book is called "The Global Grapevine" - and everything these two fine writers do is worth reading.
• Bruce Jackson recently presented the Botkin Lecture on the boundaries between photography and folklore as represented in photographs from Cummins Prison, where he did much fieldwork.
• This is only tangentially folk, but it is super cool! Video of song Kostroma by Ivan Kupala!
• The Huffpo passes along a fake book cover as a real Russian fairy tale book. I won't need to translate - the word 'caca' is universal!
• Aktuellen has an article by Richard Kuehnel and Rado Lencek on the motif of living waters in Slavic folklore.

Folklore Books for May

If I ever get the time, I intend on doing a post about folklore books available for the Kindle and the iPad. Right now we are sticking with new releases of books printed on actual paper.

• Classical and Contemporary Mythical Identities: Construction of the Literary Imagination - ed. by Amina Alyal and Paul Hardwick.
• Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia - Peggy Rockman Napaljarri and Lee Cataldi. Sacred Literature Trust Series.
• Mystical Oldham: Superstitions, Marvels and Mysteries Around Oldham and Saddleworth - Janette Quinlan.
• "The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston - ed. by Deborah G. Pliant.
• Historical Residues in the Old Irish Legends of Queen Medb: An Expanded Interpretation of the Ulster Cycle - Diana D. Dominguez.
• Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decorations in the Southern Appalachians - Alan and Karen Jabbour.
• Culture and Customs of Portugal - Carlos A. and Rhonda Cunha. Part of the Series Culture and Customs of Europe.
• Aphrodite - Monica S. Cyrino. Part of the Series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.
• Delmarva Legends and Lore - David Healey.
• Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche - Garrick A. Bailey.