Folklored: A Don Cossack "kurenj" hut. Quick notes.

Evgenia Samsonova has a very informative blog about Slavic folklore over at Folklored.   I encourage you to check it out!


Folklored: A Don Cossack "kurenj" hut. Quick notes.: The photos below show typical examples Don Cossack hut "kurenj" architecture seen around the southern regions of the Russian steppes. Mov...

Building a Better Folklore Library

I am always on the lookout for more folklore books.   I want them all!    Here are the new releases for July of this year.

• Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century - Timothy Baycroft, ed.  National Cultivation of Culture, Brill Academic Pub.
• Legends of the Caucasus - David Hunt.  Saqi Books.
• Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons - Austin E. Fife and Alta Stephens Fife.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• Pop Mythology: Collected Essays - Laura A. Shamas.   Telemachus Press.
• Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues and National Identities - Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn, eds.  American Made Music Series, University Press of Mississippi.  
• Kachina Tales from the Indian Pueblas - Gene Meany Hodge.  Sunstone Press.
• Gawain and the Grail Quest: Healing the Waste Land in Our Time - Jeffrey John Dixon.  Floris Books.
• Spirit Memory: An Ancestral Journey through Aboriginal and European Transformation - Mary Tasi.  Influence Publishing.
• Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts - Elizabeth Stewart.  Compiled by Alison McMorland.  University Press of Mississippi/Elphinstone Institute.

Hot Folklore Fun in the Summertime: Folklore Reads on the Beach

Summertime.    And the fish are jumping.   Summertime.

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.   Summertime.

Hot fun in the summertime.

Here are some folklore books to bring to the beach.  

• Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900-1950 - Sam Lopez.   Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues, Routledge.
• Folklore in Action: Essays for Discussion in Honor of MacEdward Leach - Horace Palmer Beck and MacEdward Leach, eds.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration: Dagara White Bagr - Alexis B. Tengan.   European Interuniversity Press.   
• American Proverbs About Women - Lois Kerchen.  Booklocker.
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. Berens.   Indoeuropean Publishing.
• What Happens Next?  Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture - Gail Arlene de Vos.  Libraries Unlimited.
• Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favorites - Anonymous.  Translated by Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons.   Penguin Classics.
• Yes and No: The Intimate Folklore of Africa - Alta Jablow.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend; Norse Romance II: The Knights of the Round Table; Norse Romance III: Haerra Ivan - Marianne E. Kalinke, ed.  Arthurian Archives, D. S. Brewer.   
• Archaeology and Folklore - Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius J. Holtorf, eds.   Theoretical Archaeology Group, Routledge.