Folklore Reference Collection at Indiana University
This guide will introduce you to indexes, bibliographies, encylopedias, and dictionaries useful for research in folklore and ethnomusicology.
About proverbs
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
― Oscar Wilde
Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Call Number: e-book; click title to connectISBN: 0198605242Publication Date: 2003
A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Call Number: PN6426 .D53 1992ISBN: 0195053990Publication Date: 1991A Dictionary of International Slurs by
Call Number: HT1523 .R6 1979ISBN: 0916500055Publication Date: 1979A polyglot of foreign proverbs; comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English translations and a general index by
Call Number: PN6404 .B6 1968Publication Date: 1857; 1968The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs by
Call Number: PN6405 .M54 1986ISBN: 013695586XPublication Date: 1985
Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings by Call Number: PN6403 .W48 1989ISBN: 0674580532Publication Date: 1989Dictionary of Modern Proverbs by
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Bibliographies
International bibliography of explanatory essays on individual proverbs and proverbial expressions by
Call Number: Z7191 .M54ISBN: 326102934xPublication Date: 1977International Proverb Scholarship by
Call Number: Z7191 .M543 1982ISBN: 0824092627Publication Date: 1982- Call Number: Z7191 .M543 1990 v.1-3ISBN: 0824040376Publication Date: 1990
Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Clichis by
Call Number: Z7191 .M545 1984ISBN: 3261034351Publication Date: 1984