Education 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

My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am…

— Alan Dundes

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

— Terri Windling

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without careful definition…

— R.W.L. Moberly

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

— Margaret Halsey

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually…

— Alan Dundes

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

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say,…

— Jill Lepore

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some…

— Northrop Frye

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for…

— Jez Butterworth

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be…

— Robin McKinley