Folk belief and story collections
Folklore Studies Texts
Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.
- Texts
- 94
- Authors
- 65
- Range
- 1597 to 1926
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Folklore Studies covers the scholarly and collected side of vernacular tradition: fairy tales, superstition, regional belief, and oral custom. It sits beside Folk Magic, but its center is documentation and interpretation rather than practice.
- Collected folk tales, fairy lore, superstitions, and regional customs.
- Folklore scholarship and comparative folklore methods.
- Texts where vernacular belief is documented, classified, or interpreted.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Folklore Studies.
Satan's Invisible World
George Sinclair1685
PrimaryIntermediate
Witch Stories
E. Lynn Linton1861
PrimaryIntermediate
The Book of Witches
Unknown Author (Historical Compilation)1900
PrimaryIntermediate
Witchcraft & Second Sight
John Gregorson Campbell1902
PrimaryIntermediate
Daemonologie
King James I of England (James VI of Scotland)1597
PrimaryIntermediate
Dictionnaire Infernal
Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy1818
Primary
Le diable peint par lui-même
Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy1819
PrimaryIntermediate
Demonology and Superstitions
William Grant Stewart1823
PrimaryIntermediate
Bilder der Wunderkunst
Karl Grabner (Attributed/Editor)1834
Primary
Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites
John Netten Radcliffe1854
PrimaryIntermediate
Le streghe
Jules Michelet1862
PrimaryIntermediate
Mysteries of All Nations
James Grant1880
PrimaryIntermediate
More Folklore Studies Texts
Miti del Medio Evo Vol 2
Arturo Graf1893
Primary
Witchcraft and Superstitious Record
John Maxwell Wood1911
PrimaryIntermediate
The Phantom World
Augustine Calmet1746
PrimaryIntermediate
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman1820
Primary
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke1825
PrimaryAdvanced
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth1827
PrimaryIntermediate
Thaumaturgia
Richard Harris Dalton Barham1835
PrimaryIntermediate
Secrets of Black Arts
Anonymous1850
PrimaryIntermediate
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer1870
PrimaryIntermediate
Salem Witchcraft
Various Historians1892
PrimaryIntermediate
Aradia
Charles Godfrey Leland1899
PrimaryIntermediate
Book of the Damned
Charles Fort1919
PrimaryIntermediate
Bygone Beliefs
H. Stanley Redgrove1920
PrimaryIntermediate
The Coming of the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle1922
PrimaryIntroductory
History of Witchcraft and Demonology
Montague Summers1926
PrimaryIntermediate
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes1880
Intermediate
Curiosities of Superstition
William Henry Davenport Adams1882
Introductory
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1912
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske1873
Intermediate
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang1884
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Advanced
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
Herbert Mayo1851
Introductory
An Introduction to Mythology
George W. Cox1873
Introductory
Domestic Folk-lore
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer1881
Introductory
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Advanced
Strange Survivals
Sabine Baring-Gould1892
Intermediate
More Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs (collector/editor)1894
Introductory
Myths of the Cherokee
James Mooney1900
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1912
Advanced
Human Animals
Frank Hamel1915
Intermediate
Signs, Omens and Superstitions
George Lyman Kittredge1915
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1915
Miscellanies
John Aubrey1696
Intermediate
A World of Wonders
James Grant1845
Intermediate
Modern Mythology
Charles Kingsley1873
Intermediate
Demonology and Devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway1879
Intermediate
Primitive Manners & Customs
James Anson Farrer1879
Advanced
Myths and Dreams
Edward Clodd1885
Intermediate
Transylvanian Superstitions
Emily Gerard1885
Introductory
The Blood Covenant
H. Clay Trumbull1885
Intermediate
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 2
Andrew Lang1887
Advanced
Strange Pages from Family Papers
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer1887
Introductory
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 1
Andrew Lang1887
Advanced
Ritual and Belief
A.W. Buckland1891
Intermediate
Miti, leggende e superstizioni (Vol 1)
Arturo Graf1892
Advanced
The Evil Eye
Frederick Thomas Elworthy1895
Intermediate
Myths and Fables of To-Day
Samuel Adams Drake1900
Introductory
Magic and Religion
Andrew Lang1901
Intermediate
Evil Eye in the Western Highlands
John Gregorson Campbell1902
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1907
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1907
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1911
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
Der Teufel und die Hölle
Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin1771
Advanced
The Christian Mythology
Charles François Dupuis1794
Intermediate
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay1841
Intermediate
Heathen Mythology
Anonymous1842
Intermediate
A babonák könyve
Arnold Ipolyi1848
Intermediate
Magic & Miracles
T. Adolphus Trollope1848
Intermediate
The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch1855
Introductory
Superstitions of Witchcraft
Howard Williams1865
Intermediate
Primitive Culture Vol 1
Edward B. Tylor1871
Intermediate
Student's Mythology
Catherine Ann White1873
Intermediate
The Dawn of History
Charles Francis Keary1878
Intermediate
Mythology of Greece and Rome
Otto Seemann1881
Intermediate
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang1884
Intermediate
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 2
Viktor Rydberg1889
Intermediate
A Book of Myths
Andrew Lang1889
Introductory
Teutonic Mythology (Vol 3)
Viktor Rydberg1889
Advanced
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1
Viktor Rydberg1889
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Migration of Symbols
Goblet d'Alviella1891
Advanced
Myths of Greece and Rome
H. A. Guerber1897
Intermediate
Psyche's Task
James George Frazer1909
Intermediate
The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg1909
Advanced
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence1920
Intermediate
James George Frazer1854 to 1941 | 17 textsAndrew Lang1844 to 1912 | 6 textsViktor Rydberg1828 to 1895 | 3 texts
Anonymous2 texts
Arturo Graf1848 to 1913 | 2 textsJacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy1793 to 1881 | 2 textsJames Grant1822 to 1887 | 2 textsJohn Gregorson Campbell1836 to 1891 | 2 textsThomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer1848 to 1923 | 2 textsA.W. Buckland1832 to 1899 | 1 textArnold Ipolyi1823 to 1886 | 1 textArthur Conan Doyle1859 to 1930 | 1 textAugustine Calmet1672 to 1757 | 1 textCatherine Ann White1 textCharles Fort1874 to 1932 | 1 textCharles Francis Keary1848 to 1917 | 1 textCharles François Dupuis1742 to 1809 | 1 textCharles Godfrey Leland1824 to 1903 | 1 textCharles Kingsley1819 to 1875 | 1 textCharles Mackay1814 to 1889 | 1 textRelated Topics
Folklore & Superstition16ritual documentation14Amulets and charms10sympathetic magic8folk customs7Anthropological analysis6Totemism6Classical mythology5Demons5Ancestral spirits4Comparative study of religious phenomena4Ethnography4folk magic and healing4Folklore practices4horseshoe4Protective magic4Seasonal rituals4Amulets3
Folk Magic
Folk magic texts and practical traditions covering charms, cures, household rites, prayers, talismans, and vernacular magical practice.
Comparative Mythology
Comparative mythology texts on gods, hero cycles, symbolic patterns, classical myth, Indo-European myth, and cross-cultural mythic structures.
Comparative Religion
Comparative religion texts on ritual, myth, sacrifice, belief, ancient religion, and cross-cultural theories of sacred practice.
Witchcraft
Witchcraft texts on trials, accusations, maleficium, popular magic, demonological theory, and the social history of magical practice.
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