Anyone Quote by Alan Dundes

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

— Andy Hertzfeld

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

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

— Dan Ben-Amos

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

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Alan Dundes

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

— Margaret Halsey

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

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

— Alan Dundes

“The Folklore process is like playing a centuries-long game of "telephone.”

— Dana M. Baird