Oral tradition

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• Oral communication

• Folklore
• Oral history

• Oral tradition -- Africa
• Oral tradition -- England
• Oral tradition -- France
• Oral tradition -- Greece
• Oral tradition -- Indonesia
• Oral tradition -- Ireland
• Oral tradition -- Kenya
• Oral tradition -- Periodicals
• Oral tradition -- United States
• Oral-formulaic analysis

• Tradition, Oral

• Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Oral Literature in Africa (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Popular Romances of the West of England, ed. by Robert Hunt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Kenneth M. George (HTML at UC Press)

• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, by Jeremiah Curtin (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Fadiman (HTML at UC Press)

• Oral Tradition (full serial archives)

• Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), by Simon J. Bronner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Book of Folk-Lore, by S. Baring-Gould (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, by Thomas Keightley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Folk Tales From Many Lands (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1910]), by Lilian Gask, illust. by Willy Pogány (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts (continually updated anthology), ed. by D. L. Ashliman (HTML at Pitt)
• An Introduction to Folk-Lore (London: David Nutt, 1895), by Marian Roalfe Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Magic of the Horse-Shoe. With Other Folk-Lore Notes, by Robert Means Lawrence (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Natural Genesis (electronic edition, 2007), by Gerald Massey, ed. by Jon Lange (HTML at masseiana.org)
• The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry into Fairy Mythology, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Symbolism of the East and West (London: G. Redway, 1900), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray-Aynsley, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• This Way to Christmas (based on the 1916 edition, with commentary), by Ruth Sawyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale, by Edward Clodd (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Sawin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being The Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona, by John William Lloyd (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• A Shared Space: Folklife in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), by James S. Griffith (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Folklore of Romantic Arkansas (2 volumes; New York: The Grolier Society, 1931), by Fred W. Allsopp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folklore and Legends: Oriental (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1889), by Charles John Tibbitts (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition, 1897), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies, by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1902), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brazilian Fairy Book (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1926), by Elsie Spicer Eells, illust. by George Washington Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy Tales From Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore (Chicago: E. M. Hale and Co., c1917), by Elsie Spicer Eells, illust. by Helen M. Barton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)

• Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), ed. by Trevor J. Blank (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongst the Boloki and other Congo tribes, With a Description of Their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion, and Laws (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by John H. Weeks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Congo Life and Folklore (London: Religious Tract Society, 1911), by John H. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Swords of the Vikings: Stories from the Works of Saxo Grammaticus (retold for children by Davis; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1937), by Saxo Grammaticus and Julia Davis, illust. by Suzanne Lassen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. by M. F. Lindemans (HTML at pantheon.org)

• English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• More English Fairy Tales (1894), by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John Dickson Batten (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

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