Folklore Reference Collection at Indiana University
This guide will introduce you to indexes, bibliographies, encylopedias, and dictionaries useful for research in folklore and ethnomusicology.
What is folk belief?
Folk belief includes beliefs and folklore related to religion, the occult, unexplained phenomena, and the paranormal. This category also includes folklore commonly referred to as "superstition." For works on belief narratives or legends, see the folk literature tab.
Folk Beliefs
A Dictionary of Superstitions by Call Number: e-book; click title to connectISBN: 0192829165Publication Date: 1992
Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore by Call Number: GR110.N8 D8 v.6-7Publication Date: 1952Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah by
Call Number: GR110.U8 P66 1984ISBN: 0874802369Publication Date: 1984Death and the Afterlife by
Call Number: e-book; click title to connectISBN: 1576073815Publication Date: 2002
Popular beliefs and superstitions : a compendium of American folklore : from the Ohio Collection of Newbell Niles Puckett by Call Number: GR110.O48 P82 v.1-3Publication Date: 1981
Unexplained Phenomena
Encyclopedia of the Strange, Mystical, and Unexplained by Call Number: BF1407 .G85 2001ISBN: 0517162784Publication Date: 2001
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghost and Spirits by Call Number: BF1461 .G85 1994ISBN: 0851127487Publication Date: 1994
Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena by Call Number: Q173 .C554 1993ISBN: 081038843XPublication Date: 1993
The emergence of a phenomenon--UFOs from the beginning through 1959 by Call Number: TL789 .U13 v. 2Publication Date: 1992
Witchcraft / Occult
The Occult in the Western World by
Call Number: Z6876 .K53 1986ISBN: 0208021132Publication Date: 1986Magic, Witchcraft and Paganism in America by
Call Number: Z6878.M3 M44ISBN: 0824093771Publication Date: 1982
