Geoffrey I. L. Gomme, R. V. H. Burne, M. F. Irvine, Harriet M. Smith, Florence M. Brown, Barbara Freire-Marreco and R. Dyke Acland Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

POPULAR superstition is so long-lived and popular humor is so antiquated that the two volumes 1 before us, although they would naturally be thought to belong to different centuries, may be regarded as ...

A popular folk festival has been cancelled after it became "a victim of its own success", organisers say. A recent appeal for volunteers to help run Bradford-on-Avon's Green Man Festival, in Wiltshire ...

Tricksters dance through the stories of cultures around the world, causing chaos, teaching lessons, and making us laugh at ...

Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

Episode 4 of “Robin Hood” will premiere on MGM+ on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 9 p.m. ET. Keep scrolling to see the full episode ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

St. Swithin’s Day: In English folklore, July 15 is supposed to govern the weather for the following 40 days. Specifically, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will continue to rain for 40 more days.

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...