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Folk Legends

Folk Legends is a scholarly construct within the study of local legends that comprises traditional narratives attributed to cultural or regional folklore, distinguished by their transmission through oral or communal channels and their embodiment of collective beliefs, values, or historical imaginaries of a specific community.

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96

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13

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2017–2026

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Publications

75

The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives

William Bascom · Journal of American Folklore · 1965 · 320 citations

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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folk-Tales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends

Archer Taylor, Stith Thompson · American Literature · 1935 · 279 citations

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Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Folk Religion in a Taiwanese Village

C. Fred Blake, David K. Jordan · Journal of American Folklore · 1975 · 118 citations

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The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction

Kenneth Laine Ketner, Jan Harold Brunvand · Western Folklore · 1980 · 118 citations · Full text

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Theory and History of Folklore

Steven Swann Jones, Vladimir Propp, Ariadna Y. Martin et al. · Journal of American Folklore · 1986 · 114 citations

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Authors

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  1. JS
    Jacqueline Simpson

    The Folklore Society, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 52 citations

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  2. JH
    Jan Harold Brunvand

    University of Utah, United States

    3 publications · 185 citations

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  3. ML
    María Leach

    3 publications · 193 citations

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  4. VP
    Vladimir Propp

    Engineering (Italy), Italy

    3 publications · 196 citations

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  5. AL
    Anatoly Liberman

    University of Minnesota, United States

    3 publications · 196 citations

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Institutions

13

  1. The Folklore Society

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    39 citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  4. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  5. University of Ioannina

    Ioannina, Greece

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  6. Yunnan University

    Kunming, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  7. University of Bengkulu

    Bengkulu, Indonesia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    111 citations

  8. Kunming Institute of Botany

    Kunming, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 15 publications · 822 citations

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  2. Western Folklore

    8 publications · 349 citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 6 publications · 250 citations

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  4. Folklore

    4 publications · 63 citations

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  5. Asian Folklore Studies

    3 publications · 115 citations

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