Folk literature, African
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Folk literature, African -- History and criticism
- Folk literature, African -- Technological innovations
- African folk literature
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Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
- Oral Literature in Africa (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Ruth H. Finnegan
- Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: African literature -- History and criticism- Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission From Country to Country (London: Whittaker and Co., 1834), by Thomas Keightley
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bibliographical Contributions #56; 1905), by Harvard University Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (second edition, 1926, with supplements from 1937 and 1952), by Mary Huse Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Allan Cunningham, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, ed. by Edwin Sidney Hartland, illust. by C. E. Brock (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- More Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
- The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
- More Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Lore and Legends: English (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1890), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts
- Gypsy Folk Tales, by Francis Hindes Groome (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
- Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Philippine Folk-Tales, by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, and Laura Estelle Watson Benedict, ed. by Jeroen Hellingman (Gutenberg text)
- Philippine Folklore Stories (1904), by John Maurice Miller (Gutenberg text)
- Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
- Tale of the Parrot (Novas Del Papagai), by Arnaut de Carcasses, trans. by Ross G. Arthur (PDF at In Parentheses)
- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
- Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
- A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
- One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
- Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
- A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
- More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- Tales of All Nations: or, Popular Legends and Romances (bound collection of about 48 issues; London: W. Strange, ca. 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
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