Although Quote by Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore…

— Alan Dundes

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of…

— Alan Dundes

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of…

— Alan Dundes

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

— Alan Dundes

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously…

— Tim Schafer

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins…

— Mark Waid

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't…

— Steve Valentine

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a…

— Thomas Bulfinch

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I…

— Rick Riordan

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

— Margaret Halsey