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 ...

Ancient Europeans had a long tradition of oral storytelling before they had a written language, it turns out. Researchers from New University of Lisbon and Durham University have published new ...

A free reading from the new book "Greek Folk Stories Old & New" by author Mary Ziavras, a retired educator, will be offered at several locations this month. The daughter of Greeks born in the Turkish ...

Associate Professor in Ancient History and Classical Languages, University of Newcastle Fairy tales have a tumultuous and fragile history. They originated as tales told by “folk”. They were passed ...