Fairy Tales & Folklore  Tags: fairy_tales folklore folktales  

Here are some library catalog searches to find even more resources about folklore, fairy tales, and folklife in the Browne Popular Culture Library.

• Fairy tales keyword search
• folklore keyword search
• folklife keyword search

Other terms related to folklore/fairy tales/folklife are:

• urban legends
• myths
• ghost stories
• legends or lore
  
• ghosts or phantoms or spooks
  
• phenomena
• mythical creatures like the loch ness monster, yeti, bigfoot
  
• monsters
• superstitions
• voodoo or witchcraft
  
• vampires or werewolves
• folktales
• hoaxes

These are just a few.  Try keyword searches in the library catalog to see what we might have on these.

Reference Books

Get started with one of these:

• Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore
• Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore
• Folklore of American Holidays
• Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales
• Encyclopedia of American Folklife

More Specific Resources

The Browne Popular Culture Library has a fairly large number of resources on American folklore and fairy tales, but also folklore from elsewhere in the world.  Here's a sample of what you can find up on the 4th floor:

From around the states:

• More Missouri Ghosts:  Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
• A treasury of Afro-American folklore : the oral literature, traditions, recollections, legends, tales, songs, religious beliefs, customs, sayings, and humor of peoples of African descent in the Americas
• Ghosts, Legends and Folklore of Old Pensacola
• Nebraska Folklore

From around the world:

• Demons, Ghosts and Spectres in Cornish Folklore
• The witchcraft and folklore of Dartmoor
• The Secret Country : an Intrepretation of the Folklore of Ancient Sites in the British Isles
• African Folklore

In addition, the BPCL also has resources on more varied kinds of folklore.  See below for some examples:

• Chocolate fads, folklore & fantasies : 1,000+ chunks of chocolate information
• Alcohol wordlore and folklore : being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associated with the use and production of alcohol as reflected in the magazines, newspapers, and literature of the English-speaking world
• Cannabis Myths and Folklore
• Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: an Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth

Read through our Basics of Using the BPCL to find out about how to use us.