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The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World

Gregory Forth

Summary: This article discusses an urban legend called "the baby roast" and compares it with older Malayo-Polynesian narratives from the South Pacific. By analyzing these stories, the author suggests that the most likely explanation is independent development and highlights the concerns about cannibalism and the attribution of consuming human flesh to non-human characters.

FOLKLORE (2023)

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On the Night the Dead Return: Five Accounts of Fatal Revenants (Sha) from 'Nighttime Talks' in Eighteenth-Century Beijing

Shengyu Wang, Paulo Brito

Summary: This article presents the content of 'Five items on fatal revenants' from Hebang'e's 'Jottings of nighttime talks' and elucidates the uniqueness of the sha-revenant phenomenon. It also sheds light on the rich cultural history of a previously understudied mortuary ritual that has close connections to Chinese vernacular religion.

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'When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You': The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes

Anastasiya Fiadotava

Summary: This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis shows that her environmental agenda is not the central topic of these memes. Many memes use catchy phrases from Thunberg's speeches in a recontextualized manner to create humor. Some memes aim to ridicule Thunberg personally, while others use her image metaphorically. The memes often reference other films, cartoons, and internet memes. The article reflects on the relationship between meme content and the social facts that inspired them, highlighting the discrepancy between celebrities' original ideas and the meanings represented in celebrity memes.

FOLKLORE (2023)

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Reading Heupers: The Witchcraft Texts. An Analysis of Eight Years of Oral Interviews (vol 134, pg 91, 2023)

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Fenrir's Fetter and the Power of Stories

Katherine Langrish

Summary: This lecture discusses the often underestimated power of stories to influence us. Stories can change our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world around us, offering wisdom, solace, and joy, but they can also evoke fear or alienation.

FOLKLORE (2023)

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales

Juliette Wood

FOLKLORE (2023)

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Indigenous Sports History and Culture in Asia

Sheng CHEN, Liya GUO, Rui XİAO

Milli Folklor (2023)

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Mustafa ARSLAN, Türkmen Kahramanlık Destanı Göroğlu –İnceleme-Metin-, Çanakkale: Paradigma Yayınları, ISBN: 978- 625-8187-59-5, 1252 sayfa.

Didem Gülçin ERDEM KÜK

Milli Folklor (2023)

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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

Ethan Doyle White

FOLKLORE (2023)

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Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe

Francisc Vaz da Silva

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Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe

JoAnn Conrad

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Gender and Legend in Rural Iceland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Júlíana Th. Magnúsdóttir

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (2023)

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Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family

Walter Szanyi

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What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana

Elizabeth Tucker

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The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales

Jing Li

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Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice

Sean Williams

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Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

Andrea Kitta

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (2023)

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Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women

Anne E. Duggan

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Moon Witch, Spider King

Michael Jones

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (2023)

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“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives

Thomas Grant Richardson, Jon Kay, Maida Owens, Tim Frandy

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (2023)

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