Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A-D -- v. 2. E-L -- v. 3. M-X.

Volume 1: A-D -- Academic programs in folklore, international -- Academic programs in folklore, North American -- Acculturation -- Activism -- Aesthetics -- African American folklore -- African folklore -- Aging -- Altar, home -- Amerasians: folklores of mixed heritage, mixed race Asian Americans -- American Indian folklore scholarship -- American Indian tales -- Anansi -- Anecdote -- Animals -- Animal tale -- Anthropological approach -- Anthropology, symbolic -- Antiquarianism -- Appalachian folklore -- Applied folklore/folkloristics -- Arab Gulf states folklore -- Arabian nights -- Archetype -- Architecture, folk -- Archives and archiving -- Art, folk -- Arthurian lore -- Asian American humor and folklore -- Asian American literature and folklore -- Asian American popular culture and folklore -- Assault, supernatural -- Audience -- Authenticity -- Autograph book -- Ballad -- Bard -- Beauty and the beast -- Belief, folk -- Belief, tale -- Bluegrass: homegrown music -- Borderlands folklore -- Broadside ballad -- Cantometrics -- Carnival -- Celtic folklore and mythology -- Chapbook -- Charivari/Shivaree -- Charm -- Childbirth and childrearing -- Children's folk heroes -- Children's folklore -- Chinese folklore -- Choreometrics -- Cinderella -- Clever question/wisdom question -- Communal origins theory -- Communitas -- Community-based research -- Comparative mythology -- Computer-mediated folklore -- Conduit theory/multiconduit theory -- Contestation -- Context -- Cosmology -- Costume, folk -- Craft, folk -- Creation myths -- Cryptozoology -- Cultural property -- Cultural relativism -- Cultural studies -- Culture hero -- Custom -- Cyberculture -- Dance, folk -- Deathlore -- Deconstruction -- Diachronic/synchronic -- Dialogism -- Diffusion -- Dilemma tales -- Discourse analysis -- Dite -- Divination -- Drama, folk -- Volume 2: E-L -- Emic/etic -- Enigma, folk -- Environmentalism -- Ephemera -- Epic -- Epic laws -- Erotic folklore -- Eschatology -- Esoteric/exoteric factor -- Ethnic folklore -- Ethnoaesthetics -- Ethnography -- Ethnology -- Ethnomusicology -- Ethnopoetics -- Ethiological narrative -- Euhemerism -- Evolutionary theory -- Exorcism -- Fabulate -- Faerie and fairy lore -- Fairy tale heroes -- Fakelore -- Family folklore -- Feast -- Feminist perspectives on folklore scholarship -- Festival -- Fieldwork -- Film, folklore -- Folk culture -- Folk group -- Folklife -- Folklore -- Folkorismus/folklorism -- Folk schools -- Folksong, lyric -- Folksong, narrative -- Folktale -- Foodways -- Fool -- Formula -- Frame -- Freedom songs -- Freudian psychology -- Frontier folk hero's -- Functionalism -- Games, folk -- Gay (LGBTQ) studies and queer theory -- Gender -- Genre -- Gesture -- Gesunkenes Kulturgut -- Giants -- Globalization -- Gossip -- Graffiti -- Great tradition/little tradition -- Grimm brothers -- Helpers, folk -- Hemispheric approach -- Hero/heroine, folk -- Historical analysis -- Historic-geographic method -- History,folk -- History, oral -- Holidays and commemorations -- Hybrid -- Hymn, folk -- Icelandic sagas -- Immigration -- Indian folklore -- Inscription -- Internet -- Invented tradition-- Jack and the beanstalk -- Japanese folklore -- Jewelry -- Jewish folktales -- Joke -- Jungian psychology -- King Arthur -- Language, play -- Language, secret -- Latino folklore -- Legend -- Legend, contemporary -- Legend, urban -- Life-cycle ritual -- Life history -- Liminality -- Linguistic approach -- Literary approach -- Little red riding hood -- Local heroes --

Volume 3: M-X -- Magic -- Magicians -- Magic tale -- Martial arts and folklore -- Marxist approach -- Mask -- Material culture -- Medicine, folk -- Memorate -- Memorial shrine -- Metacommunication -- Midwifery -- Migration -- Mnemonic -- Mobility -- Modernization -- Monogenesis/polygenesis -- Motif -- Mumming -- Museum, folk -- Music, folk -- Musical instrument, folk -- Myth -- Myth-ritual theory -- National folk hero's -- Neck riddle -- Night hag -- Obscenity -- Occupational folk hero's -- Occupational folklife/folklore -- Oikotype/oicotype -- Onomastics -- Oral-formulaic theory -- Oral tradition -- Organizational folklore -- Paradigmatic/syntagmatic -- Parody -- Participant-observation method -- Pennsylvania Dutch folklore -- Performance -- Personal experience narrative -- Phenomenology -- Philological approach -- Photography, folk -- Pilgrimage -- Place -- Poetry, folk -- Popular culture -- Possession -- Postforklore -- Postmodernism -- Protest -- Proverb -- Psychoanalytic interpretations of folklore -- Psychological approach -- Public sector folklore -- Puppetry -- Rapunzel -- Rebus -- Recitation -- Regional approach -- Religion, comparative -- Religion, folk -- Religious folk hero's -- Revenant -- Reversal -- Revitalization -- Revivals -- Rhetorical analysis -- Riddle -- Riddle joke -- Ritual -- Robin Hood -- Romantic nationalism -- Rumor -- Sacred -- Sacrifice -- Saga -- Scatology -- Semiotics -- Shamanism -- Shape-shifters -- Sleeping Beauty -- Snow White -- Speech, folk -- Spirit -- Storytelling -- Structuralism -- Style -- Supernatural/supranormal -- Superorganic theories -- Tale type -- Text -- Textiles -- Thompson, Stith -- Tourism -- Toy, folk -- Tradition -- Traditionalization -- Tradition bearer -- Transformation -- Transmission -- Trickster -- UFOs and folklore -- Urban folklore -- Vampire -- Verbal art -- Verbal duel -- Vernacular -- Volkskunde -- Werewolf -- Women's folklore -- Worldview -- Xeroxlore.

From the Publisher: Did you know that the tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old, and similar versions of this singular story exist in hundreds of cultures around the globe? Have you heard of "deathlore," a subgenre of folklore involving tombstones, coffins, cemeteries, and roadside memorial shrines? Did you realize that UFO sightings and cyber cultures constitute modern folklore? The broad field of folklore studies, developed over the past two centuries, provides significant insights into many aspects of human culture. While the term "folklore" conjures images of ancient practices and beliefs or folk heroes and traditional stories, it also applies to today's ever-changing cultural landscape. Even certain aspects of modern Internet-based popular culture and contemporary rites of passage represent folklore. This encyclopedia covers all the major genres of both ancient and contemporary folklore. This second edition adds more than 100 entries that examine the folklore practices of major ethnic groups, folk heroes, creatures of myth and legend, and emerging areas of interest in folklore studies.