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 ...

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 ...

Catching up with London's Goblin Band, vocalist and hurdy-gurdy player Rowan Gatherer tell us the one record we must hear ...

One of my pet peeves occurs when I ask college students why they picked their major, especially if it’s unusual or esoteric like, say, Ancient Byzantine Religions or Expressions of Medieval Art or ...

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.

Members of the English Folk Dance Society, who will appear tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, will be entertained in Cambridge this afternoon by members of the Boston Branch of that organization, many ...