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 Literature?
Folk Literature includes folk narratives (fables, folktales, legends, fairy tales, and storytelling); folk poetry (oral poetry, ballads, epics). Works on folklore and literature are also on this page. Works on myth are found in a separate section. Tale type and motif-indexes also have a tab to themselves.
Folk Narrative and Storytelling
Storyteller's Sourcebook, 1983-1999 by Call Number: GR74.6 .M3 2001ISBN: 0810354853Publication Date: 2001
A Guide to Folktales in the English Language by Call Number: Z5983.F17 A83 1987ISBN: 0313259615Publication Date: 1987
Storytelling Folklore Sourcebook by Call Number: LB1042 .L545 1991ISBN: 0872876012Publication Date: 1991
Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable by Call Number: e-book; click title to connectISBN: 9781849720274Publication Date: 2009The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm by
Call Number: PT915 .G513 1981 v.1-2ISBN: 091598072XPublication Date: 1981Grimm's household tales, with the author's notes by
Call Number: PT921.G8 H9 1910 v.1-2Publication Date: 1910
Folk Poetry
Encyclopedia of Traditional Epics by
Call Number: PN56.E65 E64 1994ISBN: 0874367247Publication Date: 1994Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research by
Call Number: GR44.O72 F65 1985ISBN: 0824091485Publication Date: 1984
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Call Number: PZ8.3.O6 O9 1997ISBN: 0198600887Publication Date: 1998
Folklore and Literature
Companion to Literary Myths by Call Number: PN56.M95 D4813 1992ISBN: 0415064600Publication Date: 1992Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature by
Call Number: onlineISBN: 1576075036Publication Date: 2002Electronic bookFolklore and Literature in the British Isles by
Call Number: Z2014.F6 B34 1986ISBN: 0824086600Publication Date: 1986
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780313049477Publication Date: 2007
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Call Number: PN1008.5 .C37 1984ISBN: 0192115820Publication Date: 1984
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Call Number: PN3437 .O94 2000ISBN: 0198601158Publication Date: 2000
