Tag Archives: folklore

Carl Rinsch’s 47 Ronin

Posted on 7th January 2016 by Robert

The story of the Forty-Seven Ronin is a very popular one in Japan, where it is known in its various forms as Chushingura. The historical events on which it is based took place at the beginning of the eighteenth century. … Continue reading →

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Daithi Ó hÓgáin’s The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend and Romance

Posted on 2nd January 2012 by Robert

The Lore of Ireland is a magical phrase, calling up images of heroic deeds and fey enchantments, bloody treachery and shining honor, great warriors, cold queens of the Sidhe, leprechauns, cattle raids, enchanted groves, bards, prophecies — it’s sobering to think … Continue reading →

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Ron J. Suresha’s The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin

Posted on 26th June 2011 by Robert

The subtitle calls The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin a collection of “stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero.” Nasruddin, though, is more than simply Persian — he’s an avatar of the Wise Fool … Continue reading →

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Steven Posch’s Radio Paganistan: Folktales of the Urban Witches

Posted on 21st July 2005 by Diverse Voices

The stories in Radio Paganistan were “recorded live at the fullness of the Hunter’s Moon 2002, by the enchanted garden, near the waters of Mississippi, West Paganistan.” I think that should tell you pretty much all you need to know … Continue reading →

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David W. Maurer’s Kentucky Moonshine and Col. Joe Nickell’s The Kentucky Mint Julep

Posted on 23rd June 2004 by Gary Whitehouse

Kentucky Moonshine “They call him the king of the mountain A Blue Ridge businessman He’s an independent contractor Doin’ the best that he can.” — King of the Mountain, Southern Culture on the Skids The late David W. Maurer, a … Continue reading →

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Three books on American Indian folklore and mythology

Posted on 9th December 2003 by Gary Whitehouse

Barre Toelken’s The Anguish Of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West Barre Toelken has spent much of the past half-century studying American Indian culture as an outsider on the inside. Adopted by a Navajo family who saved his life … Continue reading →

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John Berger’s Into Their Labours

Posted on 19th June 2000 by Jack Merry

‘My people are the poor ones their country made of stones Their wealth is in persistance, in stories and in bones… – Oysterband, “One Green Hill” Between 1979, when he wrote Pig Earth, the first volume of what was to … Continue reading →

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