Suggested Further Reading
If you want to find out more about some of the topics discussed by Terry and Jacqueline in the Podcast, take a look at the selection of articles below – some of them are free to access online!
FREE ONLINE ACCESS Folklore is the official journal of Imaginary Worlds, Real Stories the Folklore Society. The journal publishes ethnographical and Terry Pratchett analytical essays on vernacular Folklore, Volume 111, Issue 2, 2000 culture worldwide, specialising
in traditional language, FREE ONLINE ACCESS narrative, music, song, dance, The Miller's Tomb: Facts, Gossip, and Legend drama, foodways, medicine, Jacqueline Simpson arts and crafts, and popular Folklore, Volume 116, Issue 2, 2005 religion and belief. It reviews current scholarship in a wide FREE ONLINE ACCESS range of adjacent disciplines “Mad” Elves and “Elusive Beauty”: Some Celtic Strands of including cultural studies, Tolkien's Mythology popular culture, cultural Dimitra Fimi anthropology, ethnology and social history. Folklore, Volume 117, Issue 2, 2006
FREE ONLINE ACCESS Fact and Fiction in a Legend Trefor Doloughan Vaughan Folklore, Volume 119, Issue 2, 2008
FREE ONLINE ACCESS The Folklore of London: Legends, Ceremonies and Celebrations Past and Present Jacqueline Simpson Folklore, Volume 121, Issue 1, 2010
The Devil's Footprints and Other Folklore: Local Legend and Archaeological Evidence in Lancashire - TOPICS, NOTES AND COMMENTS David A. Barrowclough and John Hallam Folklore, Volume 119, Issue 1, 2008
Living with Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering Paul Cowdell Folklore, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2009
"Folklore" and "popular religion" in Britain during the middle ages Carl Watkins Folklore, Volume 115, Issue 2, 2004
“Tell Thou the Tale”: Shakespeare's Taming of Folktales in The Taming of the Shrew Charlotte Artese Folklore , Volume 120, Issue 3, 2009
Rumours of Angels: A Legend of the First World War David Clarke Folklore, Volume 113, Issue 2, 2002
Seeking the Lore of the Land Twenty-Sixth Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture, November 2007 Jacqueline Simpson Folklore, Volume 119, Issue 2, 2008
Research Article: Believers, Sceptics, and Charlatans: Evidential Rhetoric, the Fairies, and Fairy Healers in Irish Oral Narrative and Belief Timothy Corrigan Correll Folklore, Volume 116, Issue 1, 2005
London Stone: Stone of Brutus or Fetish Stone—Making the Myth John Clark Folklore, Volume 121, Issue 1, 2010
Celticity and Storyteller Identity: The Use and Misuse of Ethnicity to Develop a Storyteller's Sense of Self Patrick Ryan Folklore, Volume 117, Issue 3, 2006
Modern Pagan Festivals: A Study in the Nature of Tradition Ronald Hutton Folklore, Volume 119, Issue 3, 2008
The Transformations of Biddy Early: From Local Reports of Magical Healing to Globalised New Age Fantasies Richard Jenkins Folklore, Volume 118, Issue 2, 2007
A. L. Lloyd and Reynardine: authenticity and authorship in the afterlife of a British broadside ballad Stephen D. Winick Folklore, Volume 115, Issue 3, 2004
Research Article: Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials Alaric Hall Folklore, Volume 116, Issue 1, 2005
Daisies Rise to Become Oaks. The Politics of Early Folktale Collection in Northern Europe Research Article Terry Gunnell Folklore, Volume 121, Issue 1, 2010
Poverty of Cause in Mythological Narrative William Hansen Folklore, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2009
Folktales in Newfoundland Oral Tradition: Structure, Style, and Performance J. D. A. Widdowson Folklore, Volume 120, Issue 1, 2009
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