About 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

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

— Alan Dundes

“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by…

— Karen Jones Gowen

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

— Terri Windling

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

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

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

— Shweta Basu Prasad

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

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

— Dan Ben-Amos

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

— Margaret Halsey