Books in the American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series series

The classic work on forms of the folktale.

Centering on the theme of story variation, this book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide.

An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.

A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.

A definitive compendium of children's counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980.

A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.

Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.

Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.

Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials and became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research.