Hakutulokset: Sarja Publications of the American Folklore Society
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The Terror That Comes in the Night
David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which …
Metaphors of Masculinity
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in …
Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and …
Handmaidens of the Lord
Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
Women as Ritual Experts
A paperback reprint of a title originally published by OUP in 1992, this ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from …
The Folkstories of Children
What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly …