folklorica: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called folklorica.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

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Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), The Girl in the Tower (2017) and The Winter of the Witch (2019), (Winternight Trilogy). by Martiniuk, Jill (2020) - �e book is a coming of age tale that centers on Vasilisa Petrovna, a young girl born with the power to see the magical creatures of Russia’s folklore in a time when Russian Orthodoxy is pushing these beings out of existence. �e fantasy series is set in 14th century Russia and heavily relies on Russian folklore. Keywords: arden; russian; vasilisa
• In Memoriam by Beissinger, Margaret; Beissinger, Beissinger (2020) - Jim, who travelled frequently to the Soviet Union/Russia, was well-known and deeply respected there, as he engaged in collaborative work and nurtured friendships with Russian scholars of folklore. Jim attended the University of Southern California, after which he served for several years in the U.S. Army, learning Russian at the Army Language School in Monterey. Keywords: folklore; jim; russian
• Магические практики севернорусских деревень: заговоры, обереги, лечебные ритуалы. Записки конца XX – начала XXI в. [Magical Practices of Northern Russian Villages: Charms, Amulets, Healing Rituals. Records of the late 20th-early 21st century] by Forrester , Sibelan; Forrester , Sibelan (2020) - A book detailing magical practices in the villages of the Russian North obviously benefits anthropologists, ethnographers, and folklorists. Rather than grouping magical practices by the malaise or issue they address, each volume of the book is divided by smaller geographical region (for example: the Kirillov region around the Sheksna River), with entries put in order from earlier expeditions (working with handwritten notebooks) to more recent ones who made more detailed audio recordings. Keywords: practices; russian; time
• Folklore and Conspiracy Theories of a COVID Dissenter: The Life and Sermons of Father Sergii (Romanov) by Clay, J. Eugene (2021) - In the hands of a skillful narrator, such as the notorious “COVID dissident” and excommunicated Russian monk Sergii (Nikolai Vasil’evich Romanov, b. 1955), a myth is not simply a static “pragmatic charter of primitive faith and moral wisdom,” as Bronislaw Malinowski argued Over two decades, Father Sergii (Romanov), a convicted murderer who turned to religion while in prison, has used myth to shape his public persona, legitimize his spiritual leadership, cultivate the loyalty of his followers, and articulate a vision of holy Russia that seeks to reconcile the Soviet and imperial pasts. Keywords: 1eories; april; beast; church; computer; conspiracy; convent; covid; dissenter; dulles; father; folklore; folklorica; holy; kirill; life; monastery; monk; narrative; new; orthodox; overton; priest; prison; putin; romanov; russian; sergii; soviet; stalin; story; vol; xxiv; years
• Co-editor's Introduction to the Folklorica Special Issue “Folklore and Protest I” by Lesiv, Mariya (2022) - The author shows that it is precisely intertextual links, which are dynamic and contextually- specific, that create platforms for meaning-making processes during protests and have broader implications for an understanding of protest and expressive creative culture. The theme of this special issue is Folklore and Protest. Keywords: american; folklore; folklorica; forms; image; introduction; issue; kyiv; protest; resistance; russian; ukraine; ukrainian; vol; war; xxv
• Activism and Patient Vulnerability: Resistance to Medical Authority and Regulation in Russia by Kuksa, Tatiana L. (2022) - […] Да, а родовспоможение лет на десять в прошлом в сравнении с Москвой” Для женщины, идущей на роды осознанно, как субъект процесса, реализовать свой план родов возможно только либо по контракту с индивидуальными специалистами, либо активно отстаивая свою позицию, что в родах не всегда реализуемо, так как процесс родов достаточно яркий и требует несколько другого состояния, чем активное отстаивание своих прав Keywords: activism; april; care; childbirth; delivery; doctors; doula; folklorica; home; hospitals; kuksa; labor; law; maternity; medical; midwife; midwives; moscow; partner; patient; resistance; rights; russian; specialists; support; system; vol; vulnerability; women; xxvi; все; как; роды; что; это
• Hoping against Hope? On Transformation in Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s Fairy Tales by Zdun, Izabela (2022) - Zipes concludes that fairy tales, including contemporary fairy tales, revive the utopian function and retain their revolutionary power when they are self- reflective and experimental, that is, when they question the forms and themes that the folktale and the fairy tale have developed. XXVI 35 Petrushevskaia is also the author of hundreds of fairy tales, which, although numerous, comprise a largely unacknowledged segment of her oeuvre. Keywords: bloch; fairy; fairy tales; genii; individual; life; liudmila; mirrors; new; people; petrushevskaia; russian; tales; transformation; vol; world; zipes
• “Listen Then, Avars, to What I Tell You”: The Unification of Chechen and Avar Oral Culture in Tolstoy’s The Cossacks and Hadji Murat by Yefimenko, Svetlana (2022) - [folk] can live without the society of progressives and somehow satisfy all their human needs: by labor, revelry, love, thought, and creation of artistic productions (Iliads, Russian folk songs)” In a profound sense, Khochbar performs his death, with which he punishes the tyrannical khan and demonstrates the subversive power of oral folk song. Keywords: avars; caucasus; chechen; cossacks; culture; empire; eroshka; folk; folklorica; hadji; history; khochbar; mountaineers; murat; narrative; novel; olenin; performance; russian; song; terek; text; tolstoy; vol; writing; xxvi
• Pamiatnik i prazdnik: etnografiia Dnia Pobedy (Monument and Holiday: An Ethnography of Victory Day by Petrone, Karen (2022) - Another recent phenomenon is the organized tourism of Russian Orthodox travelers to Victory Day celebrations in Berlin, carrying out religious pilgrimages to commemorate the sacrifices of the Soviet fallen. Pamiatnik i prazdnik is a valuable collection of essays about Victory Day, which commemorates the 9 May 1945 victory of the Soviets over Nazi Germany in the “Great Patriotic War,” and is celebrated in Russia and by the Russian diaspora. Keywords: day; russian; soviet; victory
• Decoloniality and Russian Music: Finno-Ugric Legacies in Contemporary St. Petersburg by Shatilova, Anya (2023) - It was mainly formed by students of the Finnish language classes at Inkerin Liitto to learn and sing traditional Ingrian songs. Kanevskaia–Reshetova is a self-taught singer of traditional Ingrian songs Decoloniality and Russian Music 15 FOLKLORICA 2023, Vol. Keywords: culture; decoloniality; finnish; finno; folklorica; group; ingervala; ingrian; izhorian; izhors; kalevala; kiuru; mazhuga; music; peoples; petersburg; poetry; runo; russian; songs; soviet; studies; talomerkit; vol; xxvii
• “I Felt Frightened and Then I Started Singing”: Songs at Russian Protest Actions by Kozlova, Irina; Levochskaya, Elena; Козлова, Ирина; Левочская, Елена (2023) - Sometimes respondents even said that they had learned new protest songs at the events themselves: “В прошлый раз, когда я была, включали люди музыку из машин, и я познакомилась с прекрасной песней группы Порнофильмы, которая называется «Это пройдет», вот, узнала о новом треке с протестной акции” It was thus largely due to technology (music on phones or the internet, for example) that new protest songs appeared at rallies. Keywords: actions; anthem; april; events; field; folklorica; group; march; moscow; music; participants; people; peremen; petersburg; protest; protestors; rallies; report; russian; singing; songs; street; time; vol; xxvii; перемен; рухнут; это
• Critical Pedagogy and Teaching Russian Folklore by Stauffer, Rachel (2024) - With this and the above content in mind, the remainder of this essay unites practices of critical pedagogy with the teaching of commonly taught topics in undergraduate courses on Russian culture or folklore conducted in English. Abstract This article describes rationales and methods for critical pedagogical approaches to teaching Russian folklore. Keywords: bees; culture; education; field; folklore; honey; identity; new; oppression; pedagogy; power; press; russian; slavic; states; students; teaching; united; university; vol; xxviii; york
• Fairytales in the Time of War: Analyzing the Russian War in Ukraine through the Lenses of Cultural Narratives by Moskalenko, Sophia (2024) - Finally, while Ukrainian fairytale collections see a happy ending as going back to one’s home, family, and returning to one’s work, “business as usual,” Russian tale collections see a happy ending as a gain in riches, status, and women. The following are examples of Russian fairytales are often featured in collections of folk tales, making them widely familiar. Keywords: august; children; collections; fairytales; folklorica; folktales; magic; motif; russian; significance; theory; time; ukraine; ukrainian; vol; war; xxviii; москва; сказки
• “I Signed the House over to a Cat”: Humor of the Belarusian 2020–2021 Protests by Fiadotava, Anastasiya; Zakharkevich, Stsiapan (2025) - This theory can at least partly explain Belarusian protest humor: in summer 2020, especially immediately before and after presidential elections, the tension in Belarusian society reached its apogee as the government’s activities contradicted moral and legal norms [Bedford 2021]. Using Belarusian 2020 protest posters as data sources, we explore what topics of protest humor were popular, how protest posters functioned as a prominent instrument of political activism, and why humor played such a pivotal role in 2020 Belarusian political protests. Keywords: august; belarusian; election; emotions; humor; jokes; lukashenko; media; movements; new; people; police; politics; posters; protest humor; protests; russian; use; vol; xxix
• SEEFA News - Volume 1, Number 2 (Fall 1996) - Complete by none (1997) - As everyone who has tried to follow and perhaps to pur­ chase recent books about Russian folklore knows. One disturbing sign is that very few collections of Russian folklore itself are coming out. Keywords: book; collection; conference; epic; folklore; kursk; kyiv; literature; lord; newsletter; russian; seefa; series; slavic; study; tion; volume; years
• SEEFA News - Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2007) - Complete by none (1998) - In the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences work is being carried out on a lexical description of the language of Russian folklore according to genre distinctions. As though in contradiction to the name of the journal, works about contemporary Russian folklore are given much space. Keywords: bulgarian; culture; folklore; people; russian; slavic; songs; tales; texts; time; tradition; university; work
• Mr. Afanasiev's Naughty Little Secrets: Russkie zavetnye skazki by Haney, Jack V. (2021) - Most probably it was in 1872 that the Russkie zavetnye skazki [Russian secret tales] appeared. Danish and Norwegian scholars collected obscene tales in the 1830s, but the world could not know that until 1977. Keywords: afanasiev; edition; russian; tales
• Magic Tales that End Badly by Kostiukhin, E. A. (2021) - Magic Tales that End Badly E. A. Kostiukhin, Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg Our conceptions about magic tales have been formed mainly by Vladimir Propp's ideas -- magic tales are works that correspond to his compositional formula. However, both The Types of the Folktale by Aarne and Thompson, and the Comparative Index of Types in East-Slavic tales contain quite a few types that are listed among magic tales but do not fit Propp's formula. Keywords: bridegroom; dead; ending; girl; journal; magic; memorates; russian; tale; type
• A Collection of Translations of Russian Folk Songs: E. E. Lineva's Visit to America (1892-1896) by Bailey, James; Lobanov, Mikhail (2021) - Lineva's Chicago collection, bearing the French spelling of her name (Eugenie Linefi), has never caught the attention of Russian folklorists and consequently supplements knowledge about her work as a collector and investigator of Russian folk songs. IV No. 1 E.l Kann-Novikova delineates the second half of the 1880s as the beginning of Lineva's interest in Russian folk songs and the beginning of her folklore collecting activities.(27) Keywords: chicago; choir; collection; folk; folk songs; lineva; melgunov; russian; songs; vol; wedding
• In the Field with Russian Scholars: Observations by an American Researcher by Olson, Laura (2021) - But Russian scholars could help one obtain permission to accompany them. being the distrust of villagers, about which Russian scholars warn foreigners.(l) Keywords: culture; musicologist; russian; scholars; songs; villagers
• Survey of the Series Folklore Monuments of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East by Dauenhauer, Richard (2021) - Volumes of the lore ofall of these people have already been published Shor and Dolgan are part of the Tmkic family and volumes of their folklore are forthcoming while the volume for Tofa., another Tmkic language, is projected. This survey covers volumes 9-16, published 1995-97. Keywords: east; epic; far; folklore; languages; russian; series; siberia; songs; traditions; volumes
• Eschatological Expectations in a Changing World: Narratives About the End of the World in Present Day Russian Folk Culture by Panchenko, Aleksandr (2021) - This question has special importance when oral and written eschatological legends are compared insofar as both abound in “common places” which mark violations of the boundaries of social and anti-social, and which involve typical descriptions of natural anomalies. Another important feature in the performance of present day eschatological narratives is the discussion of signs about the end of the world as coming true or having come true. Keywords: antichrist; century; day; end; folk; folklore; iron; legends; people; present; region; russian; village; world
• Jason Merrill. Russian Folktales: A Reader, Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2000. viii + 74 pp. Bibliography. Notes. Glossary. ISBN 0-58510-014-5. by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - Those of us who teach folklore or culture classes to Russian language students will find it of great use. This structure benefits the student reading tales for the first time. Keywords: russian; students; tales
• “Major Pavlutskii”: From History to Folklore From the Materials collected by the American North-Pacific Expedition by Shentalinskaia, T. S. (2021) - This text is also fragmentary and has no plot development, but, according to Gunchenko, is considered by Markovo villagers to be about major Pavlutskii. This indicates its connection with the historical figure of Major Pavlutskii as he has been preserved in the memory of the Markovo villagers. Keywords: anadyr; bogoraz; chukchi; death; expedition; folklore; legends; major; markovo; north; pavlutskii; russian; song; vol
• E. E. Lineva: A Conference by Ivanova, T. G. (2021) - After her return home Lineva took a more serious interest in Russian folk song, undertaking a number of folklore expeditions to various parts of the country. To Lineva belongs the distinction of being the first to use the phonograph to record folk songs. Keywords: folk; lineva; petersburg; russian; song; vologda
• Towards the Systematization of Stanza Forms in the Russian Folk Song by Lobanov, M. A. (2021) - [Kaluzhnikova 1998: no. 19] For the reasons given above, we have to disagree with Rudneva, who suggests that �songs with a four-line poetic stanza became established (emphasis ours, M. L.) in the rural environment . . . no. 77] а1 А а2 Kupalenka, Kupalenka � noch� malen�ka, noch’ malen’ka . . . Keywords: couplet; folk; forms; line; melody; moscow; refrain; repetition; russian; songs; stanza; text
• The Preservation of National Childbirth Traditions in the Russian Homebirth Community by Belousova, Ekaterina (2003) - �It is easier to work with people, who �speak the same language,�� said Natal�ia, a specialist in the teaching of children at the �Rozhdestvo” (Nativity) parenting school. [Vika] The names of parenting schools often use Christian symbols: �Rozhdestvo� (nativity), �Blagovest” (a peal of bells, the word has the same root as Blagoveshchenie (Annunciation), and therefore the name of the school connotes the Christian contexts of childbirth), �Kupel’� (font, presenting the idea of waterbirth in terms of baptism). Keywords: baby; birth; childbirth; christian; family; god; homebirth; labor; midwife; midwives; moscow; mother; new; orthodox; parenting; parents; people; ritual; russian; schools; tradition; vol; water; woman; world
• A. A. Gorelov (ed.). Byliny v 25 tomax: Byliny Pechory [Byliny in Twenty Five volumes: The Byliny of Pechora] by Bailey, James (2021) - Several principles have been observed in the selection of suitable items from the existing mass of material, which includes fragments, prose versions, retellings from popular publications, artificially created Soviet epics called �noviny,� �hidden reprints� and extensively edited but questionable texts. The interpretation of �Potyk� is based on the assumption that Kievan Rus originated in the second through the fourth centuries of our era , and that marriage in this epic reflects a conflict between the Slavs and the Iranian speaking Scythian peoples in the steppes during this early period (pp. 34-35). Keywords: byliny; epic; pechora; russian; songs; volumes
• Culture-Specific Meaning in Personal Narratives by Fialkova, Larisa; Yelenevskaya, Maria (2021) - The multitude of hedge words, such as �well,� �like,� �sort of,� �something of the sort,� the repetition of the hypothetical form �as if� and false starts make Anatolii�s statements imprecise and uncertain. Although it was to be found on all IDs, it came to connote Jewishness, and was used in such expressions as �he has the fifth entry,� �he didn�t get this job because of the fifth entry,� �he/she is an invalid of the fifth group/entry. Keywords: anatolii; arkadii; communication; culture; family; folklore; interviewer; israel; jewish; jews; joke; language; meaning; mother; nationality; new; people; russian; soviet; years; � t; � �
• De-Toxing the Nation. Icon Worship - A Sobering Experience? by Weichert, Bettina (2021) - Indeed, this mass appeal of miracles is not only rooted in Russia�s traditions but has been described to me as �Orthodox magic� (pravoslavnyi magizm), denoting the way in which contemporary Orthodoxy is approached and �consumed� by the majority of Russians today.(8) The church at the monastery, housing the image of the �Never-Draining Cup,� is busy all year round, especially on Sundays, and almost inaccessible thanks to the many hundreds, if not thousands, of pilgrims on 18th May, the icon�s feast-day. This also underlines the post-Soviet equation of �being Orthodox� with �being Russian,� in which drink is a historic feature of national character and reason for choosing Orthodoxy over Islam on the grounds of the latter�s prohibition against drinking: �liking a drink is part of being Russian, which in turn is part of being Orthodox. Keywords: alcoholism; church; cup; god; icon; magic; miracle; monastery; mother; orthodox; people; russian
• The Ethical Values of Narodnoe Pravoslavie: Traditional Near-Death Experiences and Fedotov by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - �Velel Gospod���� [�The Lord commanded ��]. �Grekh� [Sin]. Keywords: church; fedotov; folk; god; moral; mother; narratives; obmiranie; orthodox; russian; sins; songs; tradition; visionaries; visionary; visions; vol; world
• Russian Folk Traditions. Set of 16 CDs. by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - The first, Non- Russian Folk Traditions (ten titles on twelve discs), features recordings of folk music from the peoples of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia. These recordings make it much more likely that Russian folk music will engage students, since the sound quality allows the beauty of the folk material to shine. Keywords: folk; russian
• Victory Day Celebrations: Memory and Validation by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - Soviet Victory Day celebrations served multiple purposes. Like the traditional calendar rituals of the village, both Soviet and post-Soviet Victory Day were multifaceted rites. Keywords: day; holiday; memorial; military; people; russian; soviet; veterans; victory; victory day; war; world
• Jack V. Haney. The Complete Russian Folktale by Johns, Andreas (2021) - Professor Haney also has a significant scholarly interest in Russian folklore, and this interest has led him to a truly monumental undertaking — a scholarly annotated edition of Russian folktales including at least one text of every known tale type, arranged according to the internationally accepted Aarne- Thompson (AT) system of classification. Professor Haney points out that Russian folktales make no mention of grand princes or dukes, the rulers of the Kievan and Muscovite eras, while the first tsar, Ivan IV, appeared in the sixteenth century. Keywords: creation; folktale; haney; professor; russian; slavic; tales
• The Singers of Northern Russian Religious Verses by Fedorova, Sof'ia V. (2021) - Both types of verse, the general Russian (�starshie�) and the Old Believer (�mladshie�), were recorded by folklorists in the villages located along the eastern frontier of Karelia, in an area inhabited mainly by Russians, descendants of settlers who came from the Novgorod area.(3) One of the participants in the 1956 expedition to Zaonezh�e remarked that �almost every old woman who heard �stikhi� from the Kargopol� beggars as a child knows them now. Keywords: archive; coll; dukhovnye; kaliki; karrc; karrc archive; north; perekhozhie; russian; singers; stikhi; verses
• Mikaela Iakovlevna Mel’ts, 1924-2003 by Ivanova, Tatyana G. (2021) - Mel�ts� first publication on folklore bibliography appeared in 1956. There Mel�ts started work in a factory, but she soon became a student in the history and philological faculty at the local university. Keywords: folklore; mel; russian
• Jack V. Haney. The Complete Russian Folktale. Vol. 5. by Johns, Andreas (2021) - The last group includes narratives referred to in Western folklore scholarship as memorates or fabulates (equivalent Russian terms are bylichka and byval’shchina), first- or third- person narrative accounts of encounters with supernatural beings (nature and place spirits such as the leshii, vodianoi, rusalka, and others, as well as witches, revenants, devils, and shapeshifters). The Aarne-Thompson index refers to them as �religious tales,� while the East Slavic tale-type index calls them �legendarnye skazki� (legendary tales). Keywords: narratives; russian; tales
• The Priest in the Village Wedding (Ethnographic Notes) by Lobanov, M. A. (2021) - Wedding songs associated with the priest, including songs of honor, like the one cited above, satirical or bride's farewell songs, have never attracted much attention. In general we should note that the motif of the transfer of the bride from her parents' house is widely developed in wedding songs; however, in the majority of the songs recorded, the groom (as well as his party) or most frequently the matchmaker, rather than a priest, accompany her. Keywords: bride; century; ceremony; church; groom; home; man; marriage; moscow; priest; rituals; russian; songs; tradition; village; wedding; wedding party; wedding ritual; wedding train
• Laura Stark. Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises: Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion. by Panchenko, Alexander (2021) - Last but not least, the study of Orthodox Karelian folk religion can contribute a great deal to discussion about the scholarly notion of “folk” or “popular” religion as applied to daily practices of rural communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She lays special emphasis on the notion of a ‘promise’, or vow, which “formalizes” the “reciprocal relations between humans and sacred agents” in Orthodox Karelian folk religion, though in fact, it has to be remarked that this notion is common in the popular religion of most European agrarian societies, whether Orthodox or Catholic. Keywords: folk; karelian; orthodox; practices; religion; russian; stark
• The Cult of Lenin and "Soviet Folklore" by Panchenko, Alexander A. (2021) - Labeled �Soviet byliny,� �noviny� (i.e. �new byliny�), �bylina-folktales� or �poem-tales� (poemy-skazy), these works glorified Stalin, Lenin, Kirov, Chapaev, the development of collective farms, the heroes of polar expeditions, the Eighteenth Party Congress and so on. � �The mythic struggle for cosmos against chaos is transformed into the defense of a related group of tribes, a state, one�s own �belief� against �invaders,� �aggressors,� or �heathens,� who sometimes possess mythic and magical features. Keywords: 1920s; akul; culture; folklore; folktale; ivanova; komsomol; leader; legends; lenin; moscow; mythological; new; peasant; people; piaskovskii; poetry; russian; seifullina; shin; soviet; texts; vol; war; � �
• Felix J. Oinas, 1911-2004 by Bailey, James (2021) - Although he focused much of his scholarly efforts on his native Estonian folklore and on related Finnish folklore, Felix Oinas also maintained a continuing interest in Russian folklore. A few examples are: �The Russian Golubec �Grave Marker,�� �Historical Reality and Russian Supernatural Beings,� �The Devil in Russian Folklore,� �Russian Poludnica �Midday Spirit,�� and �Heretics as Vampires and Demons in Russia. Keywords: russian
• The Russian Bathhouse: The Old Russian Pert’ and the Christian Bania in Traditional Culture by Vadeysha, Masha (2021) - In the legend the Novgorod Slav custom of steam baths is ranked with the “savage” customs of other Slavs, and the Poliane whose habits were, according to the legend, “mild and peaceful,” thereby look more deserving of God’s mercy and their future glory.(18) Ritual bath practices were evidently a custom with great princes but they were not usual for ordinary folk in Ukraine and southern Russia. Keywords: bania; bath; bathhouse; bathing; bride; church; life; moscow; petersburg; rites; ritual; russian; steam; washing; water
• Name – Text – Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine by Kolosova, V. B. (2021) - Here the formal similarity of hollow stem and rifle-barrel is supported by parallels between plant name, strel’naia trava, (lit. The situation was the same with plant names like egor’evo (egor’evskoe, georgievo) Keywords: annenkov; artemisia; blood; example; flowers; folk; herb; john; leaves; lit; medicine; names; nettle; nosal; plants; province; red; russian; tip; use
• Margaret Paxson. Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village. by Forrester, Sibelan (2021) - Paxson evokes the structure of Russian traditional society beginning with the khoziain and khoziaika – from her own hosts, the man and woman of the house, through domestic and nature spirits, local kolkhoz heads, and national leaders such as Stalin and Yel’tsin. Paxson found the village and met its residents by way of Russian anthropologists, though it is her own personality and observant nature that provoke their responses and gather an enormous mass of information. Keywords: paxson; russian; village
• Jack V. Haney. The Complete Russian Folktale, Vol. 6: Russian Tales of Love and Life. Jack V. Haney. The Complete Russian Folktale, Vol. 7: Russian Tales of Clever Fools. by Johns, Andreas (2021) - Riddles or riddling speech play a role in many tales. Volumes 1-5 include animal tales, fairy tales, and religious legends, as well as an introductory survey of the Russian folktale (history, characters, themes). Keywords: hero; peasant; russian; tales
• In Memory of Evgenii Alekseevich Kostiukhin by Ivanova, Tatyana G. (2021) - His time at the university (1955-1960) coincided with the “Khrushchev Thaw,” when the study of Russian folklore slowly began to return to methodological pluralism, thereby allowing the investigation of folk culture from as variety of standpoints. “Perestroika” and the ensuing post-Soviet period opened the study of Russian folklore to new topics previously forbidden to scholars. Keywords: folklore; kostiukhin; russian; tales
• Buried Treasures: Narratives of an Immigrant from Ukraine in Israel by Fialkova, Larisa (2021) - Microsoft Word - contentsqsoft.doc Buried Treasures 33 Buried Treasures: Narratives of an Immigrant from Ukraine in Israel(1) Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa, Israel The folklore of buried treasure is prevalent in Odessa in part because of the city’s extensive catacombs and the spelunking culture that has developed around them. As Odessa’s population moved across the world, its stories of buried treasure emigrated also. Keywords: catacombs; folklore; gold; internet; legend; odessa; people; russian; ship; stanovskii; stories; story; time; titanic; treasure; ukraine; vol
• K. V. Kvitka’s Correspondence with the Academicians of Petrograd-Leningrad by Lobanov, M. A. (2021) - Kvitka’s attitude towards this work was very critical: “In the section on folk music there are more positions (the ones that are traditionally repeated) with which I [K. V. Kvitka—M. L.] disagree, than positions with which I agree,”(11). The article that Kvitka names appeared in print in the anthology Belarusian Folk Songs (edited by Z. V. Evald. Keywords: findeizen; kvitka; leningrad; music; russian; sheet; work
• Мария Еленевская и Лариса Фиалкова. Русская улица в еврейской стране. Исследование фольклора эмигрантов 1990-х в Израиле. (Maria Elenevskaia and Larisa Fialkova. Russian Street in a Jewish Country). by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - Folklorists who study material culture (particularly food and clothing), ritual, and oral literature will find data that are of interest and that raise pertinent questions and make insightful conclusions about folk material within the context of the Soviet society. The end result is a fascinating study of the folklore of these immigrants and the three broad sources of this material: traditional Russian culture, traditional Jewish culture, and Soviet culture (with minor influences from Islamic culture as well). Keywords: russian; soviet; vol
• Knowledge, Science, and the Scientist in Contemporary Mythology: A Study of Quasi-Scientific Narratives Collected from People Involved in Russian Religious Organizations by Akhmetova, Maria (2021) - [The Structure and Function of Myth], Современная российская мифология [Contemporary Russian Mythology]. An orthodox female pilgrim stated that at a theologian institute one learns not only about “correct history,” ancient languages, and how to study God, but also about whom to marry, whether to marry at all, about child-rearing, and so forth. Keywords: antichrist; church; contemporary; culture; example; god; history; knowledge; language; mythology; orthodox; people; russian; science; scientist; time; word; years; москва
• Traditional Customs of Russian Old Believers in Woodburn, Oregon by Razumovskaya, Elena (2021) - Like all children in Old Believers families, she learned to read Old Slavonic at home and taught herself how to write in Russian ‘by ear.’ “The Lament of Israel” Traditional Customs of Russian Old Believers 101 Outside of Lenten periods, middle-aged Old Believers sing secular songs. Keywords: believers; bride; groom; group; newlyweds; russian; songs; wedding; white; woodburn
• Кузнецова, В.С., О.Н. Лагута и А.М. Лаврентьев (ред.). Русские простонародные легенды и рассказы. Сборник 1861 г. [Kuznetsova, V. S., O. N. Laguta, and A. M. Lavrent’ev (eds.). Russian Folk Legends and Stories. A Collection of 1861]. by Johns, Andreas (2021) - In 1861 an anonymous collection of Russian folk narratives was published in St. Petersburg, entitled Легенды русского народа Russian Folk Legends and Stories. Keywords: collection; legends; man; russian
• Charms and Incantational Magic of the Northern Russians (In Records of the Early Twenty-first Century) by Krasheninnikova, Iulia (2021) - Thus boils and throat inflammations needed to be “dried up,” while “navel, groin, and other hernias (gryzha) are “gnawed” (zagryzhat’) until they are: ни в руках, ни в ногах, ни в устах, ни в легких, ни в печени, ни в крови горячей, In the repertoires of various informants there are stylized texts, such as this charm recited in the bath-house: Березонька пушистая, березонька душистая, дай мне твоей силушки, твоей моготушки, какую ты берешь из земли-матушки, чтоб я не гнулася, не качалася ни в чистом полюшке, ни в дубравушке, ни от ветра могучего, ни от снега сыпучего, ни от дождика частого [ИЯЛИ: АФ 1536-41]. Keywords: amen; animal; cattle; cow; evil; god; holy; home; house; incantations; loima; magic; milk; rituals; russian; salt; shed; texts; thursday; water; words; аминь; все; ияли; как; меня; так
• The Myth of the “Russian Soul” Through the Mirror of Language by Apresjan, Valentina (2010) - To test the linguistic specificity of Russian emotions, they are contrasted to their English-language counterparts. Findings As it is not possible to give a detailed account of the findings concerning Russian emotion concepts made by previous researchers, I will report general conclusions and illustrate the method employed in the current paper by providing a comprehensive analysis of one emotion cluster, namely zhalost’, or “pity” (considered a typically Russian emotion). Keywords: anger; concept; culture; emotion; english; expression; fate; feeling; language; myth; object; pity; russian; shmelev; situation; soul; terms; vol; wierzbicka; words; xiv; zhalost
• “Zhivaia Starina” (“Living Tradition”): An Academic Journal by Nikolaev, Dmitry (2021) - Finally there are interview excerpts published by V. V. Vinogradova which present the recollections of villagers in western and north-western Russia about their relationships with Gypsies prior to the 1956 decree which prohibited nomadic itinerancy. There is a study on the sources of the Eastern Slavic dream interpretation tradition by A. V. Chernetsov and a survey of versions of the popular ballad “Woman of Samaria” in Old Believer and Molokan traditions by S. E. Nikitina. Keywords: folklore; russian; section
• Folk Humor in Post-Soviet Russia: A Survey by Draitser, Emil A. (2021) - With the increased stabilization of the political picture in the post-Soviet period, Russian jokes about the country's leaders reappeared. Current Russian jokes reflect this: Keywords: humor; joke; life; man; new; russian; soviet
• Jack V. Haney, The Complete Russian Folktale by Bailey, James (1999) - Each of the succeeding four volumes is devoted to a different kind of tale, viz., the animal tale (to appear in June), the wonder or fairy tales, the legends, the tales of everyday life and the anecdotes. A survey of all the kinds of Russian tales concludes the volume. Keywords: russian
• Anthology of Russian Oral Epics by Bailey, James (1999) - The anthology is intended for courses on Russian folklore, for folklore courses on epics, and as an introduction to the Russian epic for folklorists in other traditions. Examples of all subgenres of Russian epics have been selected: heroic epics, bylina. Keywords: russian
• St. Stefan of Perm’: A Dialogue between Traditions and the Tradition of Dialogue by Limerov, Pavel (2010) - St. Stefan was born circa 1340 in the town of Ustiug in the principality of Rostov in north-east Russia. The existence of an image of St. Stefan in the folklore of the society, that had been so successfully converted by him, indicates that a certain perception of Stefan is deeply integrated into Permian cultural tradition. Keywords: christian; dialogue; epifanii; faith; folklorica; image; kniaz; komi; legends; magic; pagan; pam; people; perm; plot; russian; sorcerer; stefan; texts; tradition; vita; vol; wort
• An International Tale-Type: “The City of Babylon” by Eremina, Valeriia (2021) - Futhermore: И повелел Навуходоносор – царь во всем Вавилоне-граде знамя учинити на платье и на оружие, и на конях, и на уздах, и на седлах, и на хоромах, на всяком бревне, и на дверях, и на окошках, и на сосудах, на ставцах, и на блюдах, и на ложках, и на всяких сосудах, и на всяком скоту. “Duke Borsukov”]; “Царь вавилонский издал указ, чтобы на всем змеи были вырезаны и написаны: на чашках и на ложках, и на монетах. Keywords: babylon; bruntsvik; century; city; crown; folklorica; hero; history; kingdom; legend; lion; literature; narrative; onchukov; power; royal; russian; slavic; snake; story; tale; texts; tsar; type; veselovskii; vladimir; vol; издательство; москва; указано
• Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie. Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Contemporary Russian Life-Cycle Rituals. by Hill, John W. (2021) - Rouhier-Willoughby acknowledges complications to this dichotomy primarily in her discussion of post- Soviet practices, where nostalgia for the stability and (relative) equality of Soviet life has caused many respondents to reflect more favorably, or at least with less one-sidedness, on their Soviet experiences and what they meant. Thus afforded a kind of continuum of popular beliefs and practices (never stable and always subject to renegotiation and adaptation) stretching from 19th century village traditions, through the Soviet experience, and up to and including contemporary post-Soviet life, the author traces continuities, ruptures, revivals, and restorations in birthing, wedding, and mourning rites. Keywords: author; life; practices; rituals; rouhier; russian; soviet; state; willoughby
• In Memory of Alla Vasil’evna Kulagina by Marshall, Bonnie (2021) - Microsoft Word - Folk2010E.doc OBITUARY 199 FOLKLORICA 2010, Vol. XV In Memory of Alla Vasil’evna Kulagina Folklore scholars and pedagogues are saddened by the loss on October 20, 2009 of Alla Vasil’evna Kulagina, Professor in the Department of Folklore (кафедра устного народного ворчества) of Moscow State University’s Philological Faculty (филологический факультет). The impression that Alla Vasil’evna Kulagina made on colleagues, friends, and students is unforgettable. Keywords: alla; folklore; moscow; russian; vasil’evna
• Folklore in the Debates of the Westernizers and Slavophiles by Ivanits, Linda (2012) - As he phrased it in a lecture he delivered in 1848 at Moscow University: “It is possible to compare Russian songs with a magnificent tree still full of strength and beauty, but already cut down. In his History of Russian Ethnography (1891, История русской этнографии), A.N. Pypin sketched a bleak picture of the status of Russian folklore during the reign of Nicholas I. Attempts at interpretation were often naïve or misguided, and the most widely acclaimed collection of the time, I.P. Sakharov’s Tales of the Russian People (1841, Сказания русского народа), was subsequently discredited for erroneous information, unaccredited borrowing, and falsification. Keywords: aksakov; azadovskii; belinskii; collection; debates; folklore; folklorica; history; katkov; kavelin; khomiakov; kireevskii; life; literature; material; people; peter; russian; slavophiles; soimonov; songs; vol; westernizers; xvi; москва
• “Zhivaia Starina” in the Year 2010 by Nikolaev, Dmitry (2012) - Three folk songs of the war period are published by V. V. Zaporozhets. A sample of etiological tales recorded at the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century in Moscow and Krasnodar Region is presented by V. V. Zaporozhets. Keywords: articles; folklore; oblast; russian; section; volume
• Memoirs about my Soviet Adventures by Bailey, James (2012) - So much for a foreign literary scholar in Soviet Moscow repeatedly saying he would not go. This small episode once again shows how skilled Dima was at getting things done in Soviet Moscow. Keywords: american; dima; folklorica; masha; moscow; people; russian; soviet; things; time; union; vadim; vol
• Memories about the Beginning of SEEFA by Bailey, James (2012) - Many people helped to resolve this hassle which lasted several years but we are most indebted to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby for her patience and persistence. We decided to invite several people to meet during the AAASS conference in Philadelphia in November, 1994. Keywords: aaass; folklore; newsletter; people; russian; seefa; years
• Ukrainian Rushnyky: Binding Amulets and Magical Talismans in the Modern Period by Sciacca, Frank (2014) - Ukrainian rushnyky from the author’s collection may be viewed on the following site: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a. Based on these tenacious conceptions we will attempt close readings of a sampling of complex designs found on Ukrainian towels of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Keywords: author; church; cloth; collection; folklorica; goddess; life; national; new; ritual; rushnyk; russian; september; soviet; thread; towel; ukraine; ukrainian; village; vol; wedding; world; xvii
• No Nastas’ias on the Volga: Soviet Women Veterans and Folkloric Self-Representations by Harris, Adrienne Marie (2014) - As a result, during the 1950s, women pilots, and women veterans in general, found themselves on the periphery of collective memory. Women pilots’ memoirs indicate that as a whole they were and had always been aware of their marked otherness in relation to male pilots and that they wanted to be remembered by future generations precisely as women who confronted and challenged boundaries to become skilled aviators and defenders of their nation in its most dire hour. Keywords: bogatyri; collective; folklorica; gender; guards; identity; male; memoirs; memory; night; pilots; regiment; representations; russian; self; soviet; veterans; vol; war; witches; women; women pilots; women veterans; world; xvii
• The Birth and Death of the Russian House in the Priargun’ie Three Rivers Region, People’s Republic of China (1) by Klyaus, Vladimir (2015) - In this article, I would like to focus on a situation that is closer to us in time – the appearance and disappearance of Russian villages and Russian houses in the Priargun’ie Three Rivers region. In answer to my repeated inquiries about Russian houses and their construction, she could only tell me that Russians “choose a place, look it over, and then, […] so that everything will be all right, so that everything will be peaceful, they raise the beams, and then when the beams are raised, […] they celebrate, […] and set out a meal.” Keywords: area; bathhouse; chinese; domovoi; ethnicity; house; master; people; permission; region; rivers; russian; time
• Zhivaia Starina by Akhmetova, M. V.; Nikolaev (transl.), D. S. (2015) - Volume 1 (2013) opens with a section on the aspects of folk performance traditions: repertoire, the process of performance, performance mastery, and the reception of folklore in art. The journal publishes articles on the theory and language of folklore, on the history of folklore studies, on the genres of folklore, on rites and the folk calendar, on folk beliefs, and on folk art and crafts. Keywords: folklore; materials; region; russian; section; volume; zhivaia
• Masha and Bear(s): A Russian Palimpsest by Lyanda-Geller, Olga (2016) - Russian folktale Masha and the Bear The oldest of the three stories about the girl and the bear(s) is the Russian folktale Masha and the Bear (in the oral tradition, sometimes Mashen’ka and the Bear.) Masha and Bear(s): A Russian Palimpsest Masha and Bear(s): A Russian Palimpsest FOLKLORICA 2015, Vol. XIX 75 Masha and Bear(s): A Russian Palimpsest Olga Lyanda-Geller Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA Abstract When stories are scraped clean and re-written, how much of the original shines through later tales? Keywords: analysis; bear; bear(s; cartoon; children; fairy; family; folklorica; folktale; forest; functions; girl; hero; house; initiation; masha; new; original; palimpsests; propp; russian; story; tale; tolstoy; vol; xix
• The Crisis in Ukraine and the Split of Identity in the Russian-speaking World by Fialkova, Larisa; Yelenevskaia, Maria (2016) - Moreover, pro-Ukrainian Jews call themselves Judeo-Banderites. Both follow upon the scandal that emerged after a TV journalist Daria Nenakhova appeared at a pro-Ukrainian demonstration wearing a tee shirt representing a controversial figure from Ukrainian history, Stepan Bandera. Keywords: comments; conflict; countries; crisis; diaspora; events; facebook; folklorica; friends; fsu; identity; immigrants; israel; israelis; journalists; language; likes; people; post; russian; september; soviet; split; time; ukraine; ukrainian; vol; world; xix
• A President’s Portrait in Domestic Protest: The Anatomy of Hate by Lysiuk, Natalia (2016) - Finally, in June 2014 portraits of Yanukovych and Putin appeared on the urinals in one of Kiev’s pubs, while in Lviv toilet paper with a portrait of smiling Yanukovych labeled Vidchuiu kozhnogo Because my task is to demonstrate how the image of a president can be reflected in mass folk creativity, many comments related to Yanukovych (for example, his trips to other countries or his relations with Putin ending with the line Хутін – пуй, Бандюкович – путінський холуй! Keywords: anatomy; author; christmas; criminal; euromaidan; folklore; folklorica; hate; image; inscription; language; maidan; means; people; photo; portrait; poster; president; prison; protest; public; russian; speech; texts; time; tree; ukraine; ukrainian; use; vitia; vol; words; xix; yanukovych; yanyk; яник; янукович
• “Hedgehog in the Fog” as a Maidan Hero by Bezborodova, Nataliya (2017) - This paper explores the Hedgehog cartoon as the focus of a new lore. Hedgehog in the Fog is only one topic, but is one that reveals a great deal about social and cultural life during the period of political upheaval. Keywords: border; cartoon; culture; facebook; fog; folklore; folklorica; hedgehog; hero; horse; image; kyiv; maidan; maidan hero; march; media; monument; new; november; october; protests; russian; soviet; square; statue; time; ukraine; ukrainian; vol; ежик; тумане; что; ёжик
• A Love Story by a Distinguished Russian Old-Believer Storyteller from Latgalia by Koroleva, Jelena; Filosofova, Tatiana (2017) - Thus, she turns the tale setting into a picturesque description of the happy idealistic life of a rural community: На этот раз ужинать в первую очередь пригласили работников, и снова начался ропот, что в первой застолице надо торопиться, чтоб дать место другой, а другая может не торопиться, сидеть, сколько им захочется, торопить никто не станет, работа кончен. На этот раз ужинать в первую очередь пригласили работников, и снова начался ропот, что в первой застолице надо торопиться, чтоб дать место другой, а другая может не торопиться, сидеть, сколько им захочется, торопить никто не станет, работа кончен. Keywords: author; believer; blokhina; characters; community; dialect; example; folklorica; latgalia; life; love; love story; maria; maria pakhomovna; pakhomovna; paulina; russian; story; storyteller; tale; valdis; vol; work; была; было; валдис; все; его; как; мать; меня; мне; она; они; паула; паулина; снова; так; уже; хозяин; хозяйка; что
• Putting Words in Their Mouths: Russian Byliny as Discursive Space by Moore Koppy, Kate Christine (2017) - [The Quarrel of Il’ia Muromets with Prince Vladimir]. Solovei is the enemy of both Il’ia Muromets and Grand Prince Vladimir, and these two men chase the villain all the way to Byzantium, but rather than uniting against this common enemy, the hero and the grand prince continue to argue with one another the whole way. Keywords: adaptation; byliny; century; epic; film; folklorica; grand; hero; il’ia; melnitsa; mouths; muromets; new; power; prince; prince vladimir; russian; soviet; space; vladimir; vol; words
• In Memoriam by Editor, Editor (2017) - He followed that tour de force with An Anthology of Russian Tales (2009, ME Sharpe), with selected texts drawn from the seven volumes of The Complete Russian Folktale as well as a new two-volume translation of The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas’ev (2014, 2015 University of Mississippi Press) and Long, Long Tales from the Russian North (2013, University of Mississippi Press). Madhu Malik, a professor of Russian language, culture, and folklore at Bucknell University, died on May 20, 2016. Keywords: folklore; russian
• On the History of an Anecdote by Kostiukhin, Evgenii; Bailey, James; Leary, James P. (2018) - Only a youth festival could bring together people of various nationalities—from an Englishman to a Chinaman, supplemented by the Jew, a traditional figure for Russian anecdotes. However, this motif is disappearing in Russian folktales, so that Poland, where it has persisted, can be considered its homeland. Keywords: anecdote; city; flea; fly; gout; people; polish; russian; soup; vol
• Zhivaia Starina by Akhmetova, M. V.; Belova, O. V. (2018) - The section dedicated to dream symbols in folk culture includes papers on zoosymbolics in oral and literary traditions of dream interpretation (in an article by A. V. Gura, based on a huge amount of Slavic material), on the texts of bedtime prayers intended to provide good dreams (O. V. Chokha’s paper about Greek spells mentioning Maria Magdalene), and also field reports, i. e. narratives on prophetic dreams, dreams about the other world, and dreams about God and the saints, recorded in the Krasnodar region (V. V. Zaporozhets) and in the Mogilev region (O. V. Belova) and the Gomel region of Belarus (G. I. Lopatin). Closely related material is found in an article on the oral memoirs of the famous Russian linguist V. A. Dybo by A. S. Krylova. Keywords: folklore; paper; region; russian; section

• Transcarpathian Werewolf Stories: Gender Attitudes by Boudovskaia, Elena; Sadoja, Kira (2020) - �e story type “Transformation and Return” also may have a European origin, namely, the migratory legend known in the written form from the 12th century as the story of Bisclavret in the Lais of Marie de France [Rotschild 1974]; see also the story of Sir Marrok in �omas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur of 1485 �e view of the text as recorded performance, and the ensuing respect for the speakers’ exact manner of expression, is not always necessary for grouping of story types. Keywords: attitudes; folklorica; gender; husband; magic; people; stories; story; transformation; type; vol; werewolf; wife; wolf; woman; xxii
• The Hunt for an Eternal Legacy: Putin and the Vampire Legend in Modern Russia by Lucey, Colleen; Miller, Melissa (2020) - What is particularly striking about this movement of Putin vampire images is that it is actually transnational, for it provides Slavic cultural stakeholders from all over the world, such as Polish journalists and US citizens of Ukrainian heritage in Chicago, among many others, a way to fight back against Putin’s regime. Altered photo of Vladimir Putin from online story “Is Putin a Time Traveler, or a Vampire?” Keywords: blood; body; contemporary; dracula; figure; folklorica; hunt; image; legacy; legend; lenin; order; pelevin; president; putin; russia; slavic; soviet; stoker; vampire; vlad; vladimir; vol; xxii; � e
• Editor’s Note 2019 by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie; Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2020) - 5e power of the Kazakh and Croatian examples to define and yet to restrict the conception of ethnic identity reveals the importance of folklore scholarship. 5is journal is the result of Jim’s vision, and we are grateful for his support of our discipline and for his profound contributions on Russian folk poetry. Keywords: folklorica
• Conveying Ćeif: Three Croatian Folklore and Folklife Writings on Bosniak Coffee Culture by Jurić, Dorian; Jurić, Dorian (2020) - Fe coffee in Bosnian cafés is so good because our coffeehouse-keepers know how to roast it well. Fe coffee is then served piping hot, today into demitasse cups, but traditionally into small findžans for drinking. Keywords: antun; bcms; bosnia; café; century; coffee; coffee culture; coffeehouse; conveying; croatian; culture; day; drink; drinking; empire; ethnology; fis; folklife; folklore; folklorica; hangi; herzegovina; home; life; murgić; muslim; ottoman; practice; region; time; tobacco; university; vol; word; work; xxiii; zagreb; ćeif
• The Allegorical Aĭdaḣar: An Animated Look at Kazakh National Identity by Zawlacki, Jake; Zawlacki, Jake (2020) - Je Kazakh language also has a variety of phrases and proverbial expressions that refer to the fox to convey meaning or judgment. Je Kazakh qobyz was uniquely associated with shamans in pre-Soviet times because of the shaman’s healing ability while replicating the sounds of animals Keywords: animation; aĭdaḣar; central; dragon; elements; film; folk; folklorica; identity; je film; je swallow; jis; kazakh; khaydarov; king; ku̇ĭ; mosquito; national; nomadic; past; soviet; story; swallow; tail; tale; university; vol; world; xxiii
• Author Guidelines by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2020) - Introduction to Slavic Folklore (World Folklore Series). Direct all reviews and inquiries to: Laura Olson Osterman Book Review Editor, Folklorica University of Colorado, Boulder Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 276 UCB, McKenna 129 Boulder, CO 80309-0276 (lolson@colorado.edu) Keywords: author; folklorica
• Editors’ Introduction to the Folklorica Special Issue “Vernacular Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Rouhier-Willoughby,, Jeanmarie; Jurić, Dorian (2021) - Coronaviruses for sale in a Slovakian shop window [Radio 101 2020] Editors’ Introduction FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV vi alleviating stress and offering individual and communal vantages to claim a sense of control in times of uncertainty means that its production and dissemination is exponentially increased in conditions like the current pandemic. Editors’ Introduction FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV xii Iryna Voloshyna studies another sort of “defender of the folk” entirely. Keywords: conspiracy; coronavirus; covid-19; culture; editors; folklore; folklorica; introduction; march; new; pandemic; power; time; university; virus; vol; world; xxiv
• Pandemic, but Make It Fashion: Ukrainian Embroidered PPE in the Time of COVID-19 by Chomitzky, Katya (2021) - While one respondent who owns Ukrainian masks does not have any additional associations with embroidery, 24 respondents made up of both national and diaspora Ukrainians, had a range of associations. [Lester-Makin 2019: 99], Ukrainian embroidery patterns have been traditionally “regarded with mystical awe and in many circumstances as magical and protective talismans” Keywords: covid-19; culture; embroidery; face; face masks; fashion; folklorica; function; identity; masks; national; pandemic; patterns; ukraine; ukrainian; use; vol; xxiv
• The Return of the Legend: Anatoly Kashpirovsky’s Treatment of COVID-19 by Voloshyna, Iryna (2021) - In the weekly, 264-page newspaper, I found a full- page advertisement about sessions that Anatoly Kashpirovsky was offering twice a week in a local restaurant for $35. Gis article demonstrates how people in post-Soviet countries and post-Soviet diasporic communities resurrected their faith and trust in Anatoly Kashpirovsky, a legendary psychotherapist and charismatic leader who first rose to prominence in the USSR in the 1980-90s. Keywords: anatoly; conspiracy; covid-19; folk; folklorica; healing; health; kashpirovsky; legend; media; new; patients; people; return; russia; soviet; vol; xxiv
• Author Guidelines by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - 6-EndMatter1208 Author Guidelines FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV 172 Author Guidelines Folklorica publishes materials in English. Author Guidelines FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV 173 Give the page number for all direct quotes in parentheses (179-81). Keywords: author; folklorica
• Table of Contents by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2022) - Folklorica FULL 2021_Edit 6.28.22 FOLKLORICA 2021, Vol. XXV i FOLKLORICA Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 2021, Vol. XXV Contents Co-editor's Introduction to the Folklorica Special Issue “Folklore and Protest I” iii Articles Revolutionary Kašpárek: The Life Cycle of the Radical Puppet Cheryl Stephenson 1 Protesting Retrospectively: Oral Memories and Social Practices of Migrants from the Areas of Artificial Water Reservoirs in Soviet Ukraine Iryna Koval-Fuchylo 21 Sviće “Smurf”: Intertextual Linkages in Protests Against Montenegro’s 2019 Freedom of Religion Law Nikolina Zenović 36 Not All Quiet on the Culinary Front: The Battle Over Borshch in Ukraine Mariya Lesiv 58 Reviews Sawin, Patricia and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, eds. Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians Richard Foltz 81 Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna. Keywords: folklorica; vol
• Revolutionary Kašpárek: The Life Cycle of the Radical Puppet by Stephenson, Cheryl (2022) - Kašpárek performances were often directly engaged in the promotion of the Czech language, both through modernizing and disseminating traditional Czech legends and historical plays—made new and more entertaining with Kašpárek’s hijinks—and, more often, by mocking German and German speakers with multilingual puns and other demonstrations of the puppet’s masterful bilingualism. [Koval 1928: 48] From these first words, we can see the kind of armory Skupa and Kašpárek assemble, the weapons they will use to perform Czech authority and to contrast the formal religious modes of authority used earlier in the performance. Keywords: austria; authority; century; children; czech; eagle; empire; folklorica; german; jester; kašpárek; kašpárek folklorica; language; national; performance; plays; prague; puppet; puppet theater; revolutionary; skupa; theater; xxv
• Protesting Retrospectively: Oral Memories and Social Practices of Migrants from the Areas of Artificial Water Reservoirs in Soviet Ukraine by Koval-Fuchylo, Iryna (2022) - My fieldwork experience with migrants from flooded areas and analysis of publications about flooded villages leads to the conclusion that contemporary symbolic forms of protest against flooding reflect the desire to preserve and construct the memory of former villages. (1) The projects necessitated the creation of artificial water reservoirs, resulting in the destruction of a large number of old villages. Keywords: construction; dovzhenko; folklorica; grandfather; image; memories; memory; new; people; protest; region; resettlement; soviet; time; village; vol; xxv
• Not All Quiet on the Culinary Front: The Battle Over Borshch in Ukraine by Lesiv, Mariya (2022) - During the event, representatives from 25 regions of Ukraine cooked borshch. The Ministry submitted an application to UNESCO requesting the recognition of the preparation of Ukrainian borshch as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage [Tkachenko 2020a]. Keywords: borshch; crimean; culture; december; dish; dispute; family; folklore; folklorica; food; heritage; klopotenko; media; new; russia; soviet; tkachenko; ukraine; ukrainian; vernacular; vol; xxv; борщ
• Editor’s Introduction to the Folklorica Special Issue “Folklore and Protest II” by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2022) - We cannot document all the events that have provoked demonstrations here, but the Laboratory for Theoretical Folklore Studies has been actively collecting material on Russian protest (from one-person Introduction to the Special Issue II FOLKLORICA 2022, Vol. While anti-war protests erupted in February in Belarus and Russia, since that time the laws have truly resulted in a chilling effect on public dissent, more so than previous laws have done. Keywords: belarus; folklorica; introduction; issue; june; law; protest; russia; ukraine; vol; war
• Author Guidelines by SEEFA (2022) - Introduction to Slavic Folklore (World Folklore Series). Folklorica accepts original submissions only. Keywords: author; folklorica
• Cover Image by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2023) - FOLKLORICA Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association Volume XXIV 2020 Vernacular Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Keywords: folklorica
• Pandemic, Imagination, and the Rise of the Animal Kingdom by Boivin, Jennifer (2023) - Largely influenced by COVID-19 animal stories, this new imagery claimed the return of imaginary wildlife to the environment. COVID-19 animal stories, as presented in the media, share a similar structure to these catastrophe narratives. Keywords: animal; april; coronavirus; covid-19; folklorica; imagination; kingdom; lockdown; march; media; myth; narratives; nature; news; pandemic; rise; stories; vol; world; xxvii
• A Complete List of Luka Marjanović’s Bosniak Epics Housed at HAZU by Jurić, Dorian (2023) - This same rushed pace also defined the collection of song titles. Given the small amount of time I was able to devote to this task, I was forced to take Marjanović at his word regarding song lengths, even though I know he often miscounted by small A Complete List of Luka Marjanović’s Bosniak Epics Housed at HAZU 83 FOLKLORICA 2023, Vol. XXVII margins. Keywords: bana; bosniak; bosniak epics; epics; folklorica; hazu; hrnjica; list; luka; luka marjanović; marjanović; mejdan; pjesme; prijepisi; sign; songs; transcripts; vol; xxvii; ženidba
• Author Guidelines by SEEFA (2023) - Introduction to Slavic Folklore (World Folklore Series). Folklorica accepts original submissions only. Keywords: folklorica; manuscripts
• Table of Contents by SEEFA (2024) - Nemanja Radulović Reviews 68 Kononenko, Natalie O. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity. Folklorica FULL 2024 i FOLKLORICA 2024, Vol. XXVIII FOLKLORICA Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 2024, Vol. XXVIII Contents Articles Teaching Genre in Context: Fieldwork and “Hanging Out” in Appalachia and Bulgaria Sarah Craycraft 1 Critical Pedagogy and Teaching Russian Folklore Rachel Stauffer 28 Fairytales in the Time of War: Analyzing the Russian War in Ukraine through the Lenses of Cultural Narratives Sophia Moskalenko 48 Reports The Index of Serbian Folktales. Keywords: folklorica; vol
• Inside Cover by SEEFA (2024) - SEEFA Executive Board President: Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University of Newfoundland Vice-President: Dorian Jurić, Indiana University Secretary-Treasurer: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University University Board Members: Elena Boudovskaia, Georgetown University Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University Webmaster: Dorian Jurić, Indiana University FOLKLORICA Editor: Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University Book Review Editor: Laura Olson Osterman, University of Colorado, Boulder Online Content Manager: Jon Giullian, University of Kansas Editorial Board Oleksandra Britsyna, Rylsky Folklore Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa Linda J. Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Klyaus, Institute of World Literature, Russian Federation Katia Mikhailova, Institute of Folklore, Bulgaria Faith Wigzell, SSEES-University College London Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent University, Belgium ISSN 1920-0234 Folklorica FULL 2024 FOLKLORICA 2024, Vol. XXVIII FOLKLORICA Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (Formerly SEEFA Journal) Keywords: folklorica; university
• Teaching Genre in Context: Fieldwork and “Hanging Out” in Appalachia and Bulgaria by Craycraft, Sarah (2024) - For those of us who organize our syllabi around genre groups, we might revisit and reframe our courses around, instead, the crucial questions for the study of everyday life that our field addresses or problems/situations that specific genres address well. First, we risk losing the memory of the centrality of genre study in producing the performance shift, in which conversations about genre were a key component of grappling with power, hierarchy, Eurocentrism, and Western perspectives in the development of contextualized folklore. Keywords: context; context folklorica; everyday; field; folklore; folklorica; forms; genre; group; life; new; performance; press; sedianka; students; study; teaching; university; vol; ways; women; work; xxviii; young
• Author Guidelines by SEEFA (2024) - Folklorica accepts original submissions only. Introduction to Slavic Folklore (World Folklore Series). Keywords: folklorica; manuscripts
• Inside Cover by SEEFA (2025) - SEEFA Executive Board President: Dorian Jurić, Indiana University Vice-President: Sarah Craycraft, Harvard University Secretary-Treasurer: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University University Board Members: Iryna Voloshyna, Indiana University Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University FOLKLORICA Editor: Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University Book Review Editor: Laura Olson Osterman, University of Colorado, Boulder Online Content Manager: Jon Giullian, University of Kansas Editorial Board Oleksandra Britsyna, Rylsky Folklore Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa Linda J. Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Klyaus, Institute of World Literature, Russian Federation Katia Mikhailova, Institute of Folklore, Bulgaria Faith Wigzell, SSEES-University College London Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent University, Belgium ISSN 1920-0234 Folklorica FULL 2025 FOLKLORICA 2025, Vol. Keywords: folklorica; university
• The Secret Speech of Lirnyky and Kobzari Encoding a Life Style by Hornjatkevyč, Andrij (2021) - The dictionaries of the Lebian language compiled by Horbach and others are actual minstrel words. Last in the category of words dealing with people we should include хáля смерть, труп, мерлець death, corpse and, perhaps also such words as кирдимня життя life кóзум розум intellect кíманя спання sleep йóристь Keywords: activities; adjectives; argot; blind; category; church; clothing; fact; female; folklorica; food; groups; horbach; information; items; know; kobzari; kononenko; language; lebian; lexemes; lexicon; life; lirnyky; minstrels; musicians; nouns; number; numerals; people; secret; shirt; singular; songs; theory; time; ukrainian; verbs; village; vol; woman; words; work; дíкона
• Qazim Shemaj’s “Veronica’s Dream”: A Contemporary Albanian Fairytale by Peterson-Bidoshi, Kristin (2021) - Dwarf Elder; Alb. Kingela. Lungwort; Alb. Lulelepuri (bunny flower) or Bar i mushkërisë (medicine of the lungs). Keywords: alb; albanian; cure; dibra; dream; eng; et al; flowers; folk; folklorica; foxglove; gishto; help; lat; medicinal; pieroni; purple; qazim; quave; sejdiu; shemaj; text; use; veronica; vol; white; yellow
• Spirit Possession in a Present-Day Russian Village by Khristoforova, Olga (2010) - Today, the Verkhokam’e is both a multiethnic and multiconfessional region: Russians and Udmurts, Orthodox and Old Believers of various confessions including popovtsy, belokrinitskie bespopovtsy, the Pomors, chasovennye, and stranniki live there side by side.(3) Ideas about possession, or poshibka, called ikota in the vernacular, are preserved mainly by the aboriginal population, i.e., the Pomor Old Believers. The words ikota and poshibka are derived from their corresponding verbs. Keywords: believers; case; day; disease; female; folklorica; human; ikota; informant; khristoforova; komi; people; person; poshibka; possession; region; researcher; sheva; siv; sorcerer; spirit; verkhokam’e; village; vol; woman; была; вот; говорит; дак; как; она; это
• On the History of the Term “Ethnomusicology” by Lukaniuk, Bohdan (2021) - Perhaps Kvitka’s suggestion influenced his Polish colleagues, but neither his nor their innovation made an impression on the world folklore studies community and was not properly appreciated at the time. Also important is Kvitka’s unfortunate fate, a fate experienced by many scholars of Ukrainian origin and one that doomed his legacy to obscurity. Keywords: chybiński; discipline; ethnography; ethnomusicology; folk; folk music; folklorica; history; klyment; kolessa; kunst; kvitka; musical; scholarship; studies; study; term; ukrainian; vol; work; квітка; климент
• Forays into Ukrainian Canadian Folklore Today: A Snapshot from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) by Klymasz, Robert B. (2021) - His work resulted in: Sviéto: celebrating Ukrainian-Canadian ritual in east central Alberta through the generations, The Ukrainian folk ballad in Canada (musical transcriptions by Kenneth Peacock), Folk narrative among Ukrainian- REPORTS 167 FOLKLORICA 2010, Vol. XV Canadians in western Canada, Ukrainian folklore in Canada: an immigrant complex in transition, among other publications (ed.). Ukrainian folk dance ensembles commonly discard the word FOLKLORICA 2010, Vol. XV 166 “folk” and market themselves as simply “Ukrainian dance” groups in a tacit effort to focus on genre rather than ethnicity, thereby seeking parity with ballet and hip-hop. Keywords: bill; canada; canadian; dance; folklore; folklorica; ukrainian; vol; winnipeg
• A Century of Czech Tramping by Pohunek, Jan (2012) - Tramp songs are often played by campfires even by non-tramps and they constitute a large part of commonly known folk repertoire. There is a generational difference between younger tramps, who tend to prefer hiking and simplicity, and older ones, who are focused on weekend communal life in cabin colonies. Keywords: 2004; activities; century; clothing; communist; culture; czech; folklorica; movement; music; people; scouts; songs; time; tramping; tramps; vol; war; word; xvi; youth
• Wedding Rituals on the Territory of Belarusian Palesse by Charniakevich, Iryna (2012) - Palesse wedding rituals are characterized by a great deal of variation. The ransoming of the tree together with the symbolic purchases made after the meal and the pasad are the regular features of East Palesse weddings. Keywords: aimef; belarusian; bride; district; drahichyn; east; expedition; fieldnotes; folder; folklorica; groom; mbrdu; mpaa; palesse; palesse wedding; ritual; unit; villages; vol; wedding; west; xvi
• Traditional Ukrainian Folk Beliefs about Death and the Afterlife by Kukharenko, Svitlana (2012) - Furthermore, studying “normal” or natural death and funerary practices related to it without considering abnormal, “bad” (i.e., tragic and unexpected), death and beliefs surrounding such death would be superficial. They prayed for themselves and close relatives to avoid such death and did whatever they could to ensure a good death. Keywords: afterlife; beliefs; bin’kovskii; body; dead; death; folk; folklorica; funeral; ivanov; living; people; person; relatives; soul; time; vol; world; xvi
• Folklorism in Ukrainian Gotho-Romantic Prose: Oleksa Storozhenko’s Tale about The Devil in Love (1861) by Krys, Svitlana (2012) - Storozhenko’s “Devil in Love” weaves together several stories by different narrators. In terms of Storozhenko’s tale “Devil in Love,” Khropko states that it is based on a legend about the amour between the Devil and a witch, as well as on a number of folk narratives about resourcefulness and the quick wit of Zaporozhian Cossacks [1989: 13]. Keywords: alvaro; cazotte; devil; fact; folklore; folklorica; folktale; gothic; kyrylo; love; man; narrative; protagonist; storozhenko; supernatural; tale; thompson; types; ukrainian; uther; vol; witch; xvi; чорт
• Ukrainian Folklore in Kazakhstan by Kononenko, Natalie (2012) - Ukrainian Villages The specific villages that I went to are called Ukrainian villages. Ukrainian villages were among the recipients of exiled Germans. Keywords: canada; culture; folklore; folklorica; kazakhstan; magical; pavlodar; people; soviet; time; ukraine; ukrainian; village; vol; water; xvi
• From SEEFA Journal to Folklorica (2001-06) by Wigzell, Faith (2012) - /SVE /TUR /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. (Za stvaranje Adobe PDF dokumenata najpogodnijih za visokokvalitetni ispis prije tiskanja koristite ove postavke. Keywords: adobe; folklore; folklorica; journal; seefa; time
• Retrospective by Kononenko, Natalie (2012) - Access to the journal functions much like that of other major journals: the most recent three years are password-protected and accessible to members only; all other issues are free and open to the public. The early journal was essentially a newsletter with information on folklore courses, on conferences and folklore panels scheduled for them, on expeditions and other fieldwork opportunities. Keywords: east; folklore; folklorica; journal; seefa; soviet; university; west; work
• Eschatological Folk Songs and Poetry in the Manuscript Tradition of the Russian Old Believers of Latgale by Filosofova, Tatiana (2014) - The Latgalian manuscript collections feature four satirical folk poems which are good examples of this type of genre in Old Believer tradition. However, the bespopvtsy Old Believer branch, in particular, is especially persistent in conveying one central idea, namely that Folk Songs of Russian Old Believers of Latgale 47 FOLKLORICA 2013, Vol. Keywords: antichrist; believers; church; end; eschatology; folk; folk songs; folklorica; latgale; literature; mainstream; manuscript; poems; poetry; songs; teachings; tradition; vol; world; xvii
• Mythological Thinking and Archetypes in the Contemporary Bulgarian Nestinarski Ritual Complex by Stefanova, Ana (2014) - Specific information about ancient ritual practices is not often available, but we can hypothesize that new ritual forms, structures or traditions may appear on the basis of “survivals” (18) or de novo. None of the main structural components that trace the archetypal structure and ritual dynamics disappear during the migration of a ritual form through space and time. Keywords: bulgarian; complex; feast; fire; folklorica; image; ivailo; life; people; person; rite; ritual; time; tree; vol; xvii
• Editor's Note by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie; Klyaus, Vladimir (2015) - It is particularly fitting then that this issue of Folklorica features articles from our sister journal Traditional Culture As Vladimir Klyaus writes below, Traditional Culture, like Folklorica, is dedicated to the study of folk culture. Keywords: culture; folklorica; journal
• Editor’s Note 2015 by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2016) - She finds a richness of material that connects to past folk tradition, but also to popular culture and literary sources, like Lyanda-Geller. but also demonstrate that folkloristics, a discipline often associated with the past, has an important voice in the analysis and understanding of political events and identity in the globalizing world today. Keywords: analysis; folklorica
• Structure of a Story-Telling Performance Among Carpatho-Rusyns in Zakarpats'ka Oblast' of Ukraine: A Case Study by Boudovskaia, Elena (2016) - | не вы́йду | і та́к | аж дру́гый дếнь пак | вы́йшôв | that such cases were brought there, people who neighed as horses, yelled, mooed as cows, all sorts. узя́в ходакы́ | но | ту́й ба́ба | ди́вить_ ся у пі́ч Keywords: carpatho; folklore; folklorica; hk hk; house; man; minute; oblast; people; performance; person; priest; recording; roma; rusyns; session; stories; story; structure; telling; text; time; translation; ukraine; vol; wife; woman; xix; zakarpats'ka; | а; | уже́; бы́ло; всьо́; ві́н; ді́до; ка́же; но тай; та́к; та́м; тай; там; то́т; тото́; ту́й; шчо; я́к
• Biblical Legends in the Folklore of the Turkic Peoples in Southern Siberia by Oinotkinova, Nadezhda (2017) - We hypothesize that biblical legends about the Flood and the Tower of Babel entered the folk tradition of Turkic peoples of Siberia as a result of their adaptation to local cultural and historical, ethnographic, mythological details and concepts. For this purpose, Turkic peoples choose the best horse, typically a pinto, from the herd and devoted it to Erlik; this horse was called Yyyk (Yzyh). Keywords: altai; animals; ark; birds; days; devil; earth; erlik; flood; folklore; folklorica; god; husband; legends; man; mountain; noah; oinotkinova; peoples; raft; siberia; southern; text; turkic; ulgen; verbitsky; vol; water; wife; айттыр; анаң; кÿн; кижи; теп
• Mamadysh Kriashen Folk Music Traditions in Contemporary Recordings (review of materials collected in 2013) by Kayumova, Elvira Rimatovna (2017) - Those born in the 1930-40s, or rarely, in the 1950s still preserve traditional Kriashen song styles, but their numbers are rapidly shrinking. On Saint Peter’s Day, when rainmaking prayers are organized, people go to church or to the local holy spring and chant prayers, not traditional folk songs. Keywords: example; folk; folklorica; kriashen; mamadysh; music; recordings; ritual; singing; songs; traditions; tune; village; vol
• Witches, Wise People, and Werewolves by Boudovskaia, Elena (2018) - | кра́цьці диви́т | а она́ са́мо ож мôтузо́к через ґеренду́ пове́рла в ста́йни тай пітста́вила відро́ тай | до́йит Children see a woman doing witchcraft | а Keywords: community; culture; folklorica; husband; knowledge; magic; man; milk; novoselycja; people; performance; person; powers; stories; story; supernatural; village; vol; werewolves; witches; wolf; woman; xxi; | а; она́; тай; уже́; шчо

• An Urban Project in Rural Crisis: Responding to Coronavirus in Bulgarian Villages by Craycraft, Sarah (2021) - As such, ideas about village life and traditional practice are mediated for younger generations not just by forms of representation, but by the processes of transition by which those forms and the places they call to mind were shaped. Some are implemented by government institutions, some by grassroots organizations, but all speak to a growing contemporary salience of village life for (re)fashioning broader cultural meanings in Bulgaria. Keywords: baba; bulgaria; coronavirus; crisis; dis; emergency; folk; life; nazaem; online; pandemic; people; place; practices; project; rezidentsiia; rural; selo; team; time; village; vol; work; xxiv
• COVID-19 Narratives in a Carpatho-Rusyn Village in Transcarpathian Ukraine by Boudovskaia, Elena (2021) - ві́н ма́ло не пішốв сь_ сьві́та | но | ка́же вы́дав ім до | до ты́сячу дốларів но | тото́ | позавчо́ра м чита́ла | у чôрнівця́х | і | ре́ктор поме́р від кôві́ду | і | дека́н | тай такі́ шче фа́йні такі́ Keywords: author; carpatho; covid-19; covid-19 narratives; death; disease; family; god; good; informant; narratives; novoselytsia; people; person; rusyn; rusyn village; speaker; stories; story; ukraine; village; vol; xxiv; | а; тай; шчо
• The Heralds at the Bells: Messages of Hope from West Balkan Bards During the Coronavirus Pandemic by Jurić , Dorian (2021) - So long as the bard carries his symbolic trappings (gusle, folk costume, weapons, etc.), sings traditional songs recognized as the collective patrimony of the nation, and remains devoted to a celebration of integral ideals—heroism over cowardice, justice over injustice, faith over disbelief—promoted by the value system, his choice of subject and opinion in novel songs can remain surprisingly open. Other songs parodied physical distancing, the problems associated with quarantining in homes, The Heralds at the Bells FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV 87 people “letting themselves go” in isolation [Lončarić et al. 2020], and the vagaries of distance education and social interaction performed online Keywords: anti; audience; bells; conspiracy; corona; covid-19; crljen; events; folk; government; guslars; gusle; health; heralds; jevremović; jukić; life; listeners; message; mikulić; novel; november; officials; pandemic; people; performance; region; serbia; singers; songs; text; time; vernacular; virus; vol; war; xxiv; yis; youtube; čolak
• The Encyclopedia of Coronavirus Rumors and Fakes: A Report by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Qe Encyclopedia staff point out that a knowledgeable person is able to detect that the posts are fake and not a pronouncement from Mount Athos because they contain stylistic problems: language patterns and terminology that would not be used by Orthodox clergy. Qe Encyclopedia staff The Encyclopedia of Coronavirus Rumors and Fakes FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV 167 argue that this is probably a hoax generated by a youngster and support their claim by citing the type of language used and the errors found in the text. Keywords: coronavirus; encyclopedia; fakes; people; post; rumors; story; vodka
• The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today by Šmidchens, Guntis (2022) - Lithuanian folklorists tend to view folklore in a longer time frame than my American colleagues, who typically concentrate on current, “informal traditional culture.” It is a pleasure to follow Lithuanian folklorists on fieldwork expeditions where we meet living people of Lithuania in the twenty-first century, for example, when fieldworkers drink coffee with the informant on her birthday (6), or swap stories with a gifted folktale teller (121). Keywords: century; folklore; lithuanian; people; stories
• Lithuania’s Kryžių kalnas [The Hill of Crosses]: Investigating the Layered Histories, Meanings, and Tensions that Chronicle a Nation’s Life by Kibirkstis, Ema Noëlla (2025) - Throughout this period, the Hill held many names: Hill of Prayers, Begging Castle, Holy Hill, Jurgaičiai Mount, Domantai Mound, Castle Hill, or simply the Castle. Throughout its history, the Hill has suffered constant devastation due to abandonment and oppressive regimes, but since Lithuania’s independence in 1990, crosses have accumulated continuously. Keywords: church; crosses; hill; history; kalnas; kryžių; kryžių kalnas; lithuania; national; paul; people; place; pope; salatkienė; site; soviet; tourism; visitors; vol; xxix; šiauliai
• Ukrainian Village Weddings; Collected in Central Ukraine, 1998 by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Contemporary village weddings in Central Ukraine last two to three days and may be abbreviated versions of weddings celebrated in the past. The ritual lowering of the bride and groom in Ukrainian weddings occurs during the various meals when theit friends taunt each other and the couple with insulting and sometimes sexually explicit songs. Keywords: bride; couple; groom; parents; people; ritual; tsyhanshchyna; village; wedding
• Recollections of Peasant Life in Kizhi District by Kalashnikova, Regina (2021) - 5 Our grandfather Ivan Trofimovich Riabinin built the house in 1894 on money from performances singing byliny. They sent people who came from big families there to be apprentices. Keywords: church; father; fish; horse; people; petr; riabinin; village
• Betwixt and Between: The Cult of Living Saints in Contemporary Bulgaria by Ivanov, Petko; Izmirlieva, Valentina (2021) - In social terms, however, the saint is above all the figure of a religious virtuoso emerging at the interface of official and popular religion.(2) Various hagiolatric communities, from loosely defined local groups to well organized religious societies and sects, constantly cultivate their religious specialists who are often dubbed �saints� and treated as saints while still alive. Such holy persons, aspiring for saintly status in their lifetime who have not been canonized by the official Church, are usually designated in the scholarly tradition as �folk,� �near-,� �would-be,� �living� [see, e.g., Macklin and Margolies 1988], or in general not-quite-saints, to differentiate them from their canonized, �otherworldly� colleagues. Keywords: bulgarian; christian; church; community; cult; dead; death; folk; folklore; george; holy; icons; living; near; people; saints; stoina; sushitsa; term; village; vita; vol; world
• The Structure and Function of Funeral Rituals and Customs in Ukraine by Havryl'iuk, Natalia (2021) - Preparing For Death Preparing for death is considered extremely important. “Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead.” Keywords: body; coffin; dead; death; deceased; family; funeral; grave; house; living; people; person; polissia; region; ritual; soul; water; world; yard
• Waxing Like the Moon: Women Folk Healers in Rural Western Ukraine by Phillips, Sarah D. (2021) - � �I have. � �They don�t.� �Then don�t let ours hurt either. Keywords: babky; christian; church; evil; eye; fear; folk; god; hanchuk; healing; holy; incantations; moroz; mother; orysia; paraskovia; patient; people; practice; ritual; sarah; ukraine; ukrainian; villages; water; wax; wax ritual; women; � t; � �
• The Folklore of the Orange Revolution by Britsyna, O.; Golovakha, I. (2021) - � �Please mind your own business, aren't you a barber? � �But Viktor Fedorovych, whenever I tell you this news, your hair stands on end and it becomes easier for me to cut it.�) (4) Keywords: city; events; figure; folklore; graffiti; kyiv; obscene; orange; orange revolution; people; revolution; texts; tradition; ukrainian; yanukovych; � �
• Rural Stories about Parental Malediction (based on field materials from Novgorod and Vologda regions) by Kushkova, Anna (2021) - A very important motif related to forest life is forest food. In most cases, descriptions of forest life are minimal. Keywords: child; children; coll; curse; district; food; forest; human; inf; kushkova; malediction; mother; motif; non; people; person; power; stories; story; time; vol; world
• Animal Magic: Contemporary Beliefs and Practices in Ukrainian Villages by Kukharenko, Svitlana P. (2021) - There are various explanations why Ukrainian villagers continued believing and practicing magic and, particularly, animal magic. Appendix A Questionnaire used for the research on animal magic 1. Keywords: animals; cow; cows; evil; eye; humans; informants; magic; milk; orysia; owner; people; villagers; water; y.o
• Contemporary Urban Russian Funerals: Continuity and Change by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - For example, Elvira A., a retired engineer from Vladimir, described Soviet era funerals as follows: Поэтому когда лежат дома, мы обращаемся в церковь, ищем какую- нибудь женщину чтобы почитала молитвы. It is more interesting to talk about funerals because, in the funerary ritual, traditions have been preserved best of all. Keywords: body; burial; coffin; deceased; family; funeral; grave; home; house; kremleva; meal; native; novosibirsk; people; period; ritual; sedakova; soviet; vladimir
• The Secret Knowledge of Folk Healers in Macedonian Traditional Culture by Petreska, Vesna (2021) - The dreams and visions of folk healers follow traditional models and show a high degree of correspondence to folk beliefs about the other world and the ways one may enter it. All of these are frequent motifs in the dreams and visions of folk healers. Keywords: area; body; cepenkov; death; disease; folk; god; healers; healing; knowledge; life; macedonian; people; person; place; research; supernatural; vražinovski; woman; world
• Pilgrimage, Mourning, and Tradition: Commemorative Rituals and Material Responses to the Death of John Paul II in Poland by Mlynarz, Michal (2021) - Although a part of religious culture for millennia, this pilgrimage differed in that it truly was a national one, where millions of Poles descended upon the Holy See not only to pay respects to their greatest hero and someone who was already widely being considered a saint, but also to express a united sense of identity, the strength of which was noted only a few times before in history, the last being in October 1978, when John Paul was elected to the Papal Throne. The death of John Paul led to the organization of collective movements millions strong, breaching social divides that until that point, and since it, have continued to linger. Keywords: april; church; city; death; home; john; john paul; mourning; paul; people; pilgrimage; poland; poles; polish; rome; sense; shrines; time
• Cossack Treasure in Ukrainian Folk Legends by Shiyan, Roman I. (2021) - As for Krinichnaia category 4 legends, in which the treasure is portrayed as “real,” the corpus of Cossack treasure legends contains one fragment featuring memories of a person, who actually found some money. The study of Cossack treasure legends also shows that they incorporate many fantastic motifs from the international repertoire. Keywords: category; cossack; cossack treasure; folk; folklore; island; land; legends; man; money; motif; novitskii; people; texts; treasure; treasure legends; years; zaporozhian; від; гроші; записано; кажуть
• The “Local Culture and Diversity on the Prairies” Project by Foty, Nadya; Nahachewsky, Andriy (2021) - This criticism is most often and most importantly raised to oral history projects that claim to make generalizations about broader cultural processes, rather than those that focus on qualitative descriptions of their particular case studies. Other questions about our type of project may refer to the accuracy of the interviewee’s memory, considering the filtering influences of memory, the desire to please the interviewer, and other factors. Keywords: canadian; community; culture; factors; family; information; interview; life; people; project
• Traditional Magic or European Occultism? Commercial Fortune-Telling and Magic in Post-Soviet Russia and their Relationship to Russian Tradition by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - Commercial Fortune-Telling and Magic in Post-Soviet Russia and their Relationship to Russian Tradition Faith Wigzell University College London-SSEES London, UK Transforming Selves and Society: Women, Spiritual Health and Pluralism in Post-Soviet Russia, PhD dissertation CUNY. Keywords: astrology; belief; cards; case; divination; dream; family; folk; fortune; magic; occult; pavlovna; people; period; petersburg; professionals; reading; russia; services; skills; soviet; specialists; tarot; telling; today; tradition; vol; xiv
• The Distinctive Features of Belarusian Traditional Funeral Repasts by Navahrodski, Tadevush A. (2021) - At the funeral repast, unlike at other meals, it had to be sweet. The article, based on folkloric and ethnographic materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on the results of field work conducted by the author, discusses two types of funeral repasts. Keywords: ancestors; belarusian; deceased; dishes; dziady; family; food; funeral; funeral repast; meal; people; repast; ritual; spoon; table; vol
• Христофорова, Ольга. Колдуны и жертвы: Антропология колдовства в современной России. [Khristoforova, Ol’ga. Sorcerers and Victims: The Anthropology of Sorcery in Contemporary Russia]. by Kukharenko, Svitlana (2012) - She presents the psychological mechanisms behind sorcery beliefs and behind the folkloric image of a sorcerer. Khristoforova states that, although urban sorcery beliefs have acquired new elements such as new characters and motifs, modern terminology, the reduction of traditional ideas about sorcerers, and the dispersion of the sorcery discourse in multiple social contexts, city dwellers still use traditional behavior strategies in situations of danger and uncertainty. Keywords: adobe; chapter; khristoforova; people; sorcery
• The House of Stolypin Migrants to Eastern Siberia (From a Pit-house to an Estate)(1) by Minyonok, Yelena (2015) - The second phase of home construction occurred in the middle of the 1960s. Two methods of preservation for such homes are known. Keywords: district; family; home; irkutsk; life; people; region; settlers; siberia; stolypin; villages

• Ethnoculture in the Diaspora: Between Regionalism and Americanization by Gromada, Thaddeus (2022) - Brzozowska-Krajka rightly supports Roman Reinfuss’s theory that “urban civilization does not by itself cause the disappearance of folk cultures, rather it is the inferiority complexes of those cultures vis a vis urban culture. She credits two institutions for playing a role in maintaining the identity and folk culture of the “Górale” in America; The Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America (Związek Podhalan w Północnej Ameryce) based in Chicago, and the Tatrzański Orzeł/The Tatra Eagle; the latter is described by the author as a primary shaper of the highlander’s essential ideology (171). Keywords: culture; folk; polish
• Habsburg Empire to the Americas: Transculturalism in a Song About Sisi’s Assassination by Nahachewsky, Andriy; Zaitseva-Herz, Olga (2025) - Literary influences about Ukrainian folk songs have also been studied extensively [see Boiko 1978]. Letters were a common motif in folk songs Keywords: assassination; canadian; dei; elisabeth; emperor; empress; folk; hnatiuk; lady; lines; lord; medwidsky; presents; redaction; scene; september; sisi; song; texts; time; transculturalism; transmission; tsisareva; ukraine; ukrainian; versions; vol; xxix; тай
• Mark D. Slobin, ed. Returning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. 310 pp. by Beissinger, Margaret H. (2021) - Judit Frigyesi (The Aesthetic of the Hungarian Revival Movement) likewise turns to relationships between intellectuals and folk music, in particular in connection with the development of the dance-house movement of the 1970s, one of a series of folklore revivals that have occurred in twentieth-century Hungary. Most interesting are Levin's perspectives on Pokrovksy as he functioned within various factions of Russian society which exploited folk music for mostly nationalistic purposes. Keywords: change; culture; folk; music; post; wedding
• Notes on a Joint Russian-American Expedition to the Semeiskii Old Believers of Transbaikal by Levitt, Marcus C. (2021) - The land for the church had been donated by Baba Tania (Tatiana Fokeevna Ivanova), whose house had formerly been the venue for a group of the town’s Semeiskii Old Believers. In other areas of Transbaikal, other Semeiskii villages apparently took the side of the Whites (this one of many instances where it is dangerous to generalize about them). Keywords: baba; believer; church; community; expedition; folk; moscow; orthodox; russia; semeiskie; singing; songs; town; transbaikal; village
• Folk religion in the Balkans and the Qur’anic account of Abraham by Badalanova, Florentina (2021) - This song, which is entirely typical of Bulgarian folk tradition VII No. 1 56 classicus; see Gen. 16: 1-21: 2; on its interpretation in Bulgarian folk tradition, see Petkanova-Toteva [1978: 190-91]. Keywords: abraham; boy; bulgarian; child; christian; father; folk; folklore; god; islamic; ismail; iusek; journal; kurban; mehmed; mother; muslim; new; qur’anic; ram; ritual; sacrifice; seefa; son; story; text; tradition; vii; vol
• Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene (eds). Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars. by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - They also need to question the usefulness of the divisions made between official Orthodoxy and folk Orthodoxy. These are problems faced also by folklorists interested in Russian folk Orthodoxy and folk belief more generally. Keywords: folk; orthodoxy; women
• Laura J. Olson. Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity by Forrester, Sibelan (2021) - The book ranges from the status and performance of folk music before the Revolution, through Soviet definition and manipulation of folklore, to the nascent folk revival movement of the later Soviet period and the flourishing schools, ensembles and collecting projects of the Soviet period, nearly up to the present. Olson combines traditional scholarly research and citation with the results of extensive fieldwork, mainly attendance at concerts and interviews with folk revivalists in Russia today. Keywords: folk; olson; soviet
• Contemplating Music and the Boundaries of Identity: Attitudes and Opinions Regarding the Effect of Ottoman Turkish Contact on Bulgarian and Macedonian Folk Musics by Peters, Karen A. (2021) - Nevertheless, between 1952 and 1966, the eminent Bulgarian scholar Nikolai Kaufman managed to take time from his engagement with the collection and study of Bulgarian village song to research and write a book about Bulgarian urban song. Even if such editorial bowdlerizing was practiced, however, it apparently was not enough to “redeem” urban song in Kaufman’s eyes: as expressed in his book, Kaufman’s opinion is that Bulgarian urban song is on the whole poorer than Bulgarian village song, exhibiting as it does less musical and textual diversity, less amenability to flexible treatment, and ultimately less polish as a result of not undergoing continual communal re-creation. Keywords: bulgarian; characteristic; common; features; folk; identity; iev; kaufman; macedonian; meter; music; ottoman; scholars; songs; village
• Nineteenth-Century Collectors of Ukrainian Folk Legends: Their Views, Objectives, Methods and Their Informants by Shiyan, Roman I. (2021) - In this work Kulish included folk tales, songs, dumy (2) and legends that related to both pre-Cossack and Cossack times. I descend from the real Zaporozhians and am a Zaporozhian Cossack myself to a certain extent, because when I was baptized, my father poured some gunpowder in the tub; you see,that was done to ensure [a future Cossack’s] powers of endurance from early childhood, ― there used to be such a custom among the Cossacks Keywords: collectors; cossacks; folk; folklore; iavornyts’ky; informants; kulish; legends; novyts’ky; time; ukrainian; zaporozhian
• From Ritual Object To Art Form: The Ukrainian Easter Egg Pysanka In Its Canadian Context by Lesiv, Mariya (2021) - I also consulted published reports on early large Ukrainian Canadian women’s organizations that actively incorporated the pysanka into their activities as well as various popular publications (post cards, brochures and books) devoted specifically to Ukrainian Easter eggs.(6) Transferred from the land of its origin to the New Country, the pysanka became a potent and creative mode of expression among Ukrainian Canadians. Only a few scholarly works devoted to Ukrainian pysanky were published in Canada. Keywords: art; canada; canadian; context; country; easter; eggs; folk; form; national; new; object; paradigm; pysanka; ritual; tradition; ukraine; ukrainian; vol
• Narratives on the Rescue of the Infant Jesus in the Russian Folk “Bible” (Siberian Russian Texts) by Kuznetsova, V. S. (2021) - Ты куда Христа Бога сподевала? - Я бросила Христа Бога в огонь-пламя. Бросай ты свое чадо в огонь и пламя, ты бери самого Христа Бога на руци: Keywords: almswife; arms; child; christ; fire; folk; god; holy; jesus; jews; kirik; miloserdnaia; mother; rescue; stove; ulita; woman; его; жена; жиды; она; христа
• Катя Михайлова. Странстващият сляп певец просяк във фолклорната култура на славяните. (Katya Mihailova. The Wandering Blind Singer-Beggar in Slavic Folk Culture). by Perkowski, Liliana (2021) - The author also briefly outlines the gradual changes in the repertoire and functions of Slavic mendicant singers that have occurred since the late 1800’s. It is the first comprehensive cross-cultural study on blind mendicant singers in Slavic folk culture. Keywords: author; folk; mendicant; mihailova; repertoire; singers
• The Kobza and the Bandura: A Study in Similarities and Contrasts by Hornjatkevyč, Andrij (2021) - Instruments of this type can be found throughout Eurasia (and beyond) from the Japanese biwa, the Chinese p’i p’a, through the sitar and tambura of the Indian subcontinent, to the ūd of Mesopotamia and far beyond, and to various lutes, theorbos and mandolins of Central and Southern Europe Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus program notes from the 1950s stated that the word “kobza” is of Turkic origin, suggesting that instrument came to Ukraine from Asia and was brought by the innumerable nomads that appeared in the Ukrainian steppes. Keywords: bandura; bass; century; folk; instruments; kobza; number; playing; strings; ukraine; ukrainian; word
• Buchanan, Donna A. (ed.). Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse. by Olyupinar, Huseyin (2021) - Giving detailed personal and professional background information on Sezen Aksu, the author explains his attempts to link Turkish music to Balkan folk expression. In “Trafficking in the Exotic with ‘Gypsy’ Music: Balkan Roma, Cosmopolitanism and ‘World’ Music Festivals” Carol Silverman explores the marketing and consumption of Gypsy music. Keywords: author; balkan; folk; music; ottoman
• Белова, О. В. Этнокультурные стереотипы в славянской народной традиции. [Belova, O.V. Ethnocultural Stereotypes in the Slavic Folk Tradition] by Yelenevskaya, Maria; Fialkova, Larisa (2021) - This deeply researched, well-structured and engagingly written monograph is a result of the author’s long-term study of Slavic folk attitudes to members of other ethnicities and faiths. Looking into the folk ethnology of the Slavs Belova presents the opposition of “my own people” vs. “the other” on all levels, from the perception of space to mythologized physical characteristics, such as body size, type and color of hair, and specific body smells. Keywords: belova; book; faith; folk; jews
• Aspects of Historical Poetics and Pragmatics of Slavic Charms by Plas, Pieter; Yudin, Aleksey V. (2021) - Finally, referring back to the range of iconic-indexical relations between verbal text and non-verbal components in charm and incantation rituals, we may take note of the peculiar metapragmatic potential of charm texts themselves to incorporate the rules and the actional context of their performance. Although traditional verbal charms and incantation rituals have received extensive attention in Slavic ethnolinguistics and folklore studies, the need still exists for a more in-depth poetic and contextual (re)analysis of ritual texts, especially of the interrelation between their stylistic, compositional, referential and functional properties. Keywords: analysis; charms; context; discourse; folk; folklore; formula; iconicity; language; magic; performance; poetics; pragmatics; press; ritual; silverstein; slavic; text; tolstaia; wolf; woman; москва
• The Human Body and the Plant World: Mutual Relations of the Codes by Kolosova, Valeria B. (2021) - [Markovich 1891: 426] The Genitalia The lexis relating to genitalia may also be reflected in plant names, as, for example, in Russia, where rebiach’i miudushki [children’s testicles] is the term for This motif served as the basis for plant names like the Russian bratki [brothers], brat-sestra Keywords: annenkov; blood; body; example; flower; folk; head; herb; leaves; legend; love; names; plant; province; red; root; serbian; tree; ukrainian; vol; world
• The Russian Folk Religious Imagination: Web-based Digital Archive and Critical Edition by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - They depict events that are described in folk legends such as popular versions of saints’ martyrdoms or miraculous events. Even during the Soviet period, folk religious beliefs played an important role in daily life. Keywords: belief; christ; christian; folk; legends; religion; russia; soviet; texts; university
• Колосова, Валерия Борисовна. Лексика и символика славянской народной ботаники. [Kolosova, Valeriia Borisovna. The Lexicon and the Symbolism of Slavic Folk Botany]. by Kononenko, Natalie (2012) - Various plant names are part of an entire symbolic code and the next section of Kolosova’s book shows how plant names and ideas about plants draw on folk ideas about the human body. Kolosova works from plant names and tries to show how they are related to plant properties and to the entire worldview of the folk. Keywords: adobe; book; folk; kolosova; names; plant; trava
• Alison Hilton. Russian Folk Art by Kononenko, Natalie (2014) - The section “Designs and Their Meanings” talks about the symbolism found in Russian folk art. Perhaps Indiana University Press can provide free online access to some color images of Russian folk art to supplement this book. Keywords: art; folk; hilton; soviet
• Editor's Note by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2017) - Our work reveals how folk tradition overcomes cultural barriers between peoples of different cultures by adopting material from “opposing” societies and making it their own. Two other pieces examine the interrelationship of differing traditions as well, this time with an emphasis on Turkic material. Keywords: editor; folk

• Опасниые советские вещи: Городские легенды и страхи в СССР [Dangerous Soviet Things: Urban Legends and Fears in the USSR] by Borenstein, Eliot (2020) - As these examples suggest, a significant portion of Soviet urban legends unveiled the malign influence of the foreign within the domestic. [semioticheskoe vreditel’stvo], that is, he infects Soviet things with signs of his presence” (Chapter 2). Keywords: arkhipova; legends; soviet
• We Remember, We Love, We Grieve: Mortuary and Memorial Practice in Contemporary Russia by Mokhov, Sergei (2022) - Researchers seek to show how the phenomena of modern funeral culture (embalming, cremation, grief and so on) are associated with economic, legal, and demographic variables (see, for example, Tony Walter [“Three ways to arrange a funeral: Mortuary variation in the modern West,” 2005] On the other hand, in the Global South, funeral practices are studied through local religious beliefs and the participation of local communities in care for the deceased (see, for example, Piers Vitebsky [“Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos,” 2017]). Keywords: funeral; russia; soviet
• “Songs and Laughter Were Heard”: Frontline Songs and Poems in the Folklore of The Great Patriotic War by Tastan, Enes (2025) - XXIX 1 “Songs and Laughter Were Heard”: Frontline Songs and Poems in the Folklore of The Great Patriotic War Enes Tastan The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Abstract During the Great Patriotic War, performances of music and songs were an important part of soldiers’ lives in the Red Army. Keywords: army; diaries; diary; film; folklore; frontline; frontline songs; leningrad; life; military; music; new; performances; poems; red; rothstein; shcheglov; soldiers; songs; soviet; vol; war; xxix; дневник
• Isidor Levin and Tajik Folklore Studies: A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Forgotten Folklorist by Rahmoni, Ravshan (2025) - Levin was a founding member of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) and was awarded the Order of the White Star, fourth degree, by the President of Isidor Levin and Tajik Folklore Studies FOLKLORICA 2025, Vol. XXIX 109 REPORTS Isidor Levin and Tajik Folklore Studies: A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Forgotten Folklorist Ravshan Rahmoni National University of Tajikistan Dushanbe, Tajikistan Isidor Haimovich Levin (1919-2018) was an important scholar of structuralist methods in folklore studies, who guided the classification and systematization of folklore texts in the former Soviet Union. Keywords: compendium; folklore; isidor; levin; soviet; studies; tajik; tajik folklore; tartu; душанбе
• Ķencis, Toms, Simon J. Bronner, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, eds. Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, Nationalist in Content by Bryzgel, Amy (2025) - The second part looks at the role of minorities in the construction of socialist national policies. The notions of nation, national identity, and shared identity in the post- Soviet sphere have come even more to the fore with the events of the last ten years and the Russian Federation continuing to stake its claims on the territory of Ukraine. Keywords: folklore; soviet; western
• Draznilkas - Russian Children's Taunts by Weiss, Halina (2021) - D,avdlkas - Russian Children's Taunts (1) Balina Weiss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The drazni/ka· is a short, humorous verse used by children to tease, taunt and play pranks on other children (and only rarely on adults). A spat between two boys can grow to involve other children and lead to a verbal contest or duel between Opposing sides. Keywords: adults; children; draznilka; example; folklore; journal; rhymes; seefa; song; soviet; taunts; use; vinogradov; vol
• Notes of a Translator on Bogatyrev's Monograph Magical Acts, Rites, and Beliefs in Subcarpathian Rus' by Krafcik, Patricia A. (2021) - What might have disturbed a Soviet censor in 1971 about Bogatyrev's scholarly observations in this study ofSubcarpathian Rusyn folklore of the 1920s1 The problem passages, as it tmns out, did not concern Subcarpathian Rusyn folklore per se at all. The passages which the censor found dangerous or offensive were, in fact, largely those in which Bogatyrev went beyond Rusyn folklore to reach for some kind of analogy to an item under discussion which he knew and found useful from the Russian context. Keywords: bogatyrev; censor; rusyn; soviet; version
• The Old Believers: The Survival of a Religious and Cultural Heritage by Morris, Richard A. (2021) - (2) This priestly hierarchy, now with bishops, exists to the present day, although many other Old Believers do not recognize them. Those adhering to the Old Rite and refusing to acknowledge the Tsarist-mandated Church Reforms became known as Old Believers or Old Ritualists. Keywords: believers; church; communities; rite; soviet
• Panel Report: AAASS 2001. Issues in the Collection of Folklore in the Former Soviet Union by Merrill, Jason; Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Despite assurances from some that Americans would never be able to speak openly with village informants, Forrester found that there are ways of taking advantage of being a foreigner. Second, even in village work, one encounters the opinion that the study of ritual is not folklore. Keywords: kononenko; rouhier; soviet; visa; willoughby
• Caroline Humphrey. The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - This collection of essays by a prominent anthropologist specializing in the economics of the post-Soviet world, especially Mongolia, is a good place to start. Furthermore, I could argue that, by focusing exclusively on the present, Humphrey provides a needed balance to folklorists in the post-Soviet world. Keywords: folklorist; humphrey; soviet
• Deborah Cahalen Schneider. Being Goral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - In addition to showing that nationalism is not an important factor in all adjustments to post-Soviet life, this book makes a number of other contributions. All in all, the book does a good job at expanding our understanding of post-Soviet life and of the processes of social change. Keywords: goral; soviet; zywiec
• The Devastation of Soviet Local Studies and Folkloristics by Ivanova, T. G. (2021) - In our opinion, S.O. Shmidt (1997) formulated the reasons for the devastation of Soviet local studies precisely: The fact of the matter is that local studies societies and in general the work of specialists in local studies were an expression of democratic initiatives which sometimes date back to pre-revolutionary traditions and even to the ‘zemstvo’ (an elective district council from 1864 to 1917. According to the formulation of S. O. Shmidt (1989), “what we now call the year 1937 (that is, the worst year of Stalin’s purges – trans.) came for local studies in 1929 and 1930” (p. 16). Keywords: devastation; kostroma; local; onchukov; regime; region; scholar; smirnov; society; soviet; specialists; studies
• Fialkova, Larisa and Maria Yelenevskaya. In Search of the Self: Reconciling the Past and Present in Immigrants’ Experience by Kononenko, Natalie (2015) - While it seems that the desire to leave Russia or other post-Soviet states takes precedence over avoidance of a country with an anti-Semitic past, coming to terms with this desire does require artistic exploration. But in many instances their dealings with the Israeli legal system are complicated by expectations of certain behaviors from fellow post-Soviet immigrants, expectations that are not always met. Keywords: authors; chapter; soviet
• Ziolkowski, Margaret. Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore by Forrester, Sibelan (2016) - Soviet epic folklore may seem a narrow topic, one that few even among specialists have read, but the context gives this book its informative richness and opens the way to see these texts in a new light. Here too even a reader who knows the major works in folklore studies will begin to see new angles. Keywords: folklore; noviny; soviet; ziolkowski

• Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context by Juric, Dorian (2020) - �e book concludes with an epilogue that begins as a personal reflection by the author on the role that epic songs have played in her own life, but continues into some very thoughtful consideration about the purpose of epic singing and the psycho-social role that it plays in society. �e work ostensibly focuses on epic songs (dumy), but genre boundaries (which are never so clear to begin with) are forsaken here to a higher cause. Keywords: songs
• New Materials on Russian Folklore from an American Archive by Shentalinskaia, Tatyana (2021) - no. 11 (1972); Markovskie vecherki: Russkie narodnye pesni [Markovo evenings: Russian folk songs]. The Russian language, Orthodoxy, and Russian folklore remained the cultural milieu that nourished the non-material manifestations of these groups. Keywords: expedition; folklore; recordings; songs
• A Collection about Erotic Folklore by Ajdačić, Dejan (1999) - Dejan Ajdacic inquires into types and distinctions of humor in erotic stories, along with their (im)moralism. Anco Kalojanov interprets erotic motifs in a drawing on the walls of the ninth-century Preslav fortress as traces of old shamanic rites. Keywords: collection; erotic; journal; songs
• Select Bibliography of Polish Folkloristics for the Period 1990-1998 by Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna (2021) - A collection of Polish folk songs popular in the Wilno region between World Wars I and II: religious songs, humorous songs, children's songs, soldiers' songs, etc. The bibliography reveals trends typical of Polish folklore studies. Keywords: author; book; collection; folklore; legends; poland; polish; region; songs; tales; texts; uniwersytet; vol
• The Current Status of Belarusian Calendar-Ritual Tradition by Tryfanenkava, Maryna A. (2021) - The existence of Belarusian folklore tradition as a whole, as well as its individual elements at the current point of time (as also in any other historical period) is determined by the dialectical interaction of the processes of development, stabilization, and loss, which are conditioned primarily by social and economic factors. The following volumes in the series are devoted to Belarusian calendar rituals: 1. Keywords: belarusian; calendar; century; folklore; minsk; pesni; ritual; songs; spring; tradition
• Iu. A. Novikov. Skazitel i bylinnaia traditsiia [The Performer and the Bylina Tradition] St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk, 2000. 374 pp. by Bailey, James (2021) - In these respects, Novikov's investigation represents a skillful application of these methods to the verbal texts of Russian epics and results in a kind of close analysis that he terms critical textology (p. 14). Novikov remarks that the assimilation of printed texts increased during the Soviet period and deserves study as a separate topic, but he insists that such texts should be excluded from the projected compendium of Russian epics mentioned earlier in this review. Keywords: epics; novikov; songs; tradition
• Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck, eds. and trans. Songs of the Frontier Warriors, Këngë Kreshnikësh. by Kolsti, John (2021) - Its cantos glorified defenders of clan honor after the Austrian border reached North Albanian territories. Not surprisingly, I might add, the vaguely recollected northern Bosnian- Hungarian frontier, along which Albanians, including singers, had indeed fought, was all but replaced in the songs by a much closer, and equally hostile borderland off the Dalmatian-Montenegrin coast, one that was home to a host of semi-human and animal mythological creatures found in Albanian narrative songs and magical tales. Keywords: albanian; epic; north; songs
• Kaluzhnikova, Tatiana Ivanovna. Traditsionnyi russkii muzykalnyi kalendar' Srednego Urala. by Zemtsovsky, Izaly (2021) - The book contains unique variants of platter songs that are generally rarely met in publications (Khodit po poliu Ilia prorok1'), of songs for accompanying spring (Kostroma), and of round dance songs. The author, a well known musicologist and folklorist in the Urals, carried out the recording of these rituals and songs in the 1970s and 1980s with the assistance of students from the Ural State Conservatory named after M. P. Musorgsky and of members of the Sverdlovsk District House of Folklore. Keywords: songs; urals
• Inna Golovakha and Larysa Vakhnina, eds. 35th International Ballad Conference SIEF Papers and Materials (2005, July 6-11, Kyiv, Ukraine) by Boivin, Genia (2014) - According to the authors, this plot is popular in Ukrainian ballads, but is also prominent in prose, beliefs and superstition. In “La ballade Portugaise et ses Prolongements au Brésil,” Anna Caufriez explores the modifications of form of contemporary Portuguese ballads and their transmission through the littérature de cordd; while in “Ukrainian Ballads about the Loss of Virginity and Out-of- Wedlock Pregnancy,” Natalie Kononenko presents Ukrainian ballads about pre-marital lovemaking in regards to historical data of the same period, to understand how the songs functioned in Ukrainian traditional society. Keywords: ballad; research; songs

• Practical Methods of Folklore and Ethnographic Research in Ukraine by Hrymych, Maryna (2021) - This prompted her to issue a decree ordering her advisors to compose questionnaires and to collect specific information of interest to her. Such information can then be easily classified by statistical or quantitative methods. Keywords: fieldwork; information; interview; methods; questionnaire; research; time; ukraine
• Using Digital Techniques with Interviews by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Sound files that are on cassette tapes can easily be digitized as WAV or mp3 files. For most purposes, mp3 files, which are much smaller in size, provide sufficient sound fidelity. Keywords: file; recording; sound; time
• Notes from the Field: Contemporary Folkways in Slovenia: Personal Practices of Commemoration at Cemeteries, Public Monuments, and Unmarked Mass Graves by Aplenc, Veronica E. (2021) - These field notes present the initial stages of a research project into personal practices of commemoration that proliferate at Slovenian cemeteries as well as monuments. Largely rectilinear, Slovenian cemeteries recall the more formal layouts found in French examples, rather than the naturalistic style of Anglo-American or Protestant northern European places of burial. Keywords: cemeteries; cemetery; commemoration; monuments; practices; slovenian; time; war

• Kononenko, Natalie O. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity by Voloshyna, Iryna (2024) - In Chapter Four, “Ukrainian Wedding on the Prairies,” Reviews 74 FOLKLORICA 2024, Vol. XXVIII Kononenko also describes modifications and adaptations of traditional Ukrainian rituals, like introducing the wedding fruitcake or even a fake cake made out of Styrofoam (104) alongside the korovai—a traditional Ukrainian wedding bread— or a bride’s white wedding dress instead of Ukrainian traditional clothes that were “much maligned by Anglo-Canadians, who saw it as another marker of the uncivilized, even brutish, nature of Ukrainian immigrants” (118). She delineates three types of Ukrainian nationalist ideologies: 1) “the nationalism of Ukrainians living in the country itself who are seeking to define and promote Ukrainian identity,” 2) “the nationalism of Ukrainians living abroad, who sought to safeguard what they viewed as a pure Ukrainian culture for export back into Ukraine once the country was free,” and 3) nationalism that is “focused on Canada rather than Ukraine and one that looks to life in the present rather than trying to preserve or resurrect the culture of the past… nationalism without dogma”—that is, vernacular nationalism (10-11). Keywords: nationalism; ukrainian
• The Midwife in Traditional Ukrainian Culture: Ritual, Folklore and Mythology by Boriak, Olena (2021) - The Danish term for �midwife� is jordmoder, �earth-mother,� and in Jewish tradition the old midwife is called bubbeh (Yiddish for �granny�) She had two sisters: Uks-akka, who dwelt under the tent door (uksa means �door�), and Juks- akk (juks is assumed to come from juoksa, �bow�). Keywords: baba; birth; bread; ceremony; child; childbirth; delivery; infant; kasha; kyiv; meaning; midwife; mother; new; ritual; ukraine; ukrainian; vol; woman; word; � flower
• Олександра Бріцина.Українська Усна Традиційна Проза: Питання Текстології та Виконавства (O. Britsyna. Ukrainian Traditional Oral Prose: Questions of Textology and Performance). by Golovakha-Hicks, Inna (2021) - Folklorists have come to the twenty-first century with little theory on how folklore texts should be understood, recorded and transcribed. The author discusses the tendency to publish folk texts organized by performer or village rather than by genre. Keywords: fieldwork; folklore; folkloristics; text; ukrainian
• Fodchuk, Roman Paul. Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers. by Foty, Nadya (2021) - Each chapter is illustrated with photographs from Fodchuk’s collection, as well as superb illustrations of the pioneer tools and utensils (drawn by daughter Kathryn Fodchuk Dobbin and Jean FOLKLORICA 2008, Vol. XIII REVIEWS 195 Paul Rioux, during their time as students at the Alberta College of Art). untitled 194 Fodchuk, Roman Paul. Keywords: alberta; chapter; fodchuk; ukrainian
• Фьялкова, Лариса. Коли гори сходяться: нарис українсько- ізраїлських фольклорних взаємин. [Fialkova, Larisa. When Mountains Meet: A Study of Ukrainian-Israeli Folklore Connections] by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - The first section deals with the image of Jerusalem in Ukrainian folklore. Using classic nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources such as Kolessa, Hnatiuk, and Chubyns’kyi, Fialkova shows that a positive image of Jerusalem has existed in Ukrainian folklore for a long time. Keywords: fialkova; folklore; ukrainian
• Боряк, Олена. Баба-повитуха в культурно-історичній традиції українців: між профанним і сакральним. [Boriak, Olena. The Midwife in the Cultural and Historical Traditions of the Ukrainians: Between the Ordinary and the Sacred.]. by Chernyavska, Maryna (2012) - /SVE /TUR /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Thus, as the author points out, when Soviet authorities made a concerted effort to replace folk midwives with trained obstetricians, a new personage appeared and assumed a ritual role in birth. Keywords: adobe; birth; boriak; midwife; midwifery; ukrainian

• Romani (Gypsy) Music-Making at Weddings in Post-Communist Romania: Political Transitions and Cultural Adaptations by Beissinger, Margaret H. (2021) - Moreover, the songs now widely heard are more frequently �Balkan pop� and �Gypsy� music rather than Romanian traditional repertoire, and �Gypsy� as opposed to Romanian dance forms dominate. �Salome� (Salomeea), with its Biblical subtext of female treachery, was also a �super hit� that year, though its lyrics were far from subtle. Keywords: bride; communist; culture; dance; hora; lăutar; manea; music; place; post; repertoire; romanian; wedding
• Folklore Research Resources in East European Studies: The Library and Archives of the American Hungarian Foundation by Ward, Judit Hajnal; Clark, Sylvia Csűrös (2021) - In addition to the noteworthy collection at the Library of Congress, a number of large academic libraries feature Hungarian collections. Comprehensive data on Hungarian collections in the United States have not been assembled to date and no exhaustive study of the vast resources that Hungarian collections contribute to research and scholarship has been published. Keywords: american; collection; community; culture; folklore; foundation; history; hungarian; library; new; research; states; united
• “An invincible Czech horde”: Political and Social Implications of Abstract Moravian Folklore in Milan Kundera’s The Joke by Talbayev, Edwige Tamalet (2021) - Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Department of French Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Abstract This article studies the treatment of Moravian folk music in Milan Kundera´s 1967 first novel, The Joke (Žert). This resort to folklore as FOLKLORICA 2010, Vol. XV 68 the last panacea against an all-pervading feeling of despair is intriguing and this essay seeks to investigate the modalities of Kundera’s refashioning of the motif of Moravian folk music in the post-ideological context of the novel. Keywords: communist; culture; czech; folklore; history; identity; jaroslav; joke; kundera; ludvík; memory; milan; milan kundera; music; new; novel
• Zhivaia Starina in 2015 by Belova, Olga V. (2017) - The article by V. V. Zaporozhets, “Memorates about ‘Inopportune Times’” was based on narratives about the evil eye, curses or unusual cases that occurred at times viewed in the folk tradition as “bad” or “odd.” The “Expeditions” section featured materials from the Ural region (E. V. Rychkova, “Folk Bible of the Old Believers in Ural region”); the Komi Republic (L. S. Lobanova, “Materials from the village Yortom, Udorsky district of the Komi Republic”); and the Lower Volga region (V. A. Shilkin, “Holiday Soroki in the Volgograd region”). Keywords: culture; folklore; region; section

• Колись русалки по землі ходили: Жіночі образи української міфології [Once Upon a Time the Water Nymphs Walked the Earth: Female Images in Ukrainian Mythology] by Lesiv, Mariya (2020) - Buyskykh sees some more radical interpretations as catastrophic, such as those of writer and artist Valerii Voitovych who positions himself as a researcher of Ukrainian mythology, and whose works are often published as scholarly (25). Voitovych places Berehynia in the context of Ukrainian mythology whose richness, in his opinion, indicates that “Ukrainians constitute a core of the oldest white race on Earth…” (26). Keywords: author; buyskykh; mythology; ukraine
• Wanner, Catherine. Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2025) - However, because of the association between the victims and Christian martyrdom, these spaces became associated with Orthodox vernacular mourning practices. This study explores Orthodox religion as it is lived and the intersections of national faith traditions and a Ukrainian national identity. Keywords: orthodox; ukraine; wanner
• Folklore Fieldwork and Research in Ukraine by Ingram, Anne (2021) - Kherson IMFE helped me access archival material and set up my fieldwork. Kherson IMFE also chose locations for my fieldwork, with the goal of giving me a survey of as many areas of Ukraine as possible. Keywords: imfe; ukraine
• Report on the Conference Held in Kiev, Ukraine, September 8-14, 1997 by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Report on the conference held in Kiev, Ukraine, September 8­14, 1997 Natalie Kononenko, University of Virginia A conference entitled Oral Epic: Ethnic Traditions and Performance was held in Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 8­14, 1997. If the mail system works, copies may be obtained from: Olesia Britsyna, Assistant to the Director Institute of Folklore, Art, and Ethnomusicology 4 Hrushevsky St. Kiev 225001 Ukraine fax: 380-44-229-4522 If you have trouble getting through to Ukraine, contact: Natalie Kononenko University of Virginia Slavic Dept., Cabell Hall 109 5T Charlottesville, VA 22903 phone: 804­924­3548 (W) and 978­1942 (H) e­mail: The Folklore Institute in Kiev has an e­mail address. Keywords: conference; kiev; ukraine
• Corona, Annette Ogrodnik. The New Ukrainian Cookbook by Kononenko, Natalie (2014) - All in all, the book provides a treasure trove of information about Ukrainian foods, their preparation, and their ritual and customary uses. Fats are used in large quantities and they include, not just butter and vegetable oils, but also goose fat, chicken fat, lard, and bacon drippings, among other fats. Keywords: book; food; information; ukraine

• Designing a Russian Fairy Tales Course by Birnbaum, David J.; Daly, Suzanne; Goscilo, Helena; Sagaidak Houkom, Julia; Kachur, John; McCausland, Gerald; Prokhorov, Alexander; Petrov, Petre; Reyn, Irina; Seckler, Dawn; Sutcliffe, Benjamin (2021) - WHAT MAKES RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES POPULAR General Education Requirements While students select their major subjects according to their professional aspirations and, if we are fortunate, their intellectual interests, in many universities, including ours, their choice of other courses is often controlled by the need to satisfy a large and complicated set of general education requirements. Furthermore, because undergraduate general education has a high priority at the University of SEEFA Journal 2001, Vol. VI No. 2 56 Pittsburgh, our Dean has provided additional teaching assistantships and instructors to cover increased enrollment in Russian Fairy Tales and other general education courses. Keywords: course; department; fairy; instructors; students; tales; university
• Myth, Motif, and Motivation: Pavol Dobšinský’s Theory and Practice of the Wondertale by Cooper, David L. (2021) - While he refers to Slovak tales to illustrate what he is saying, it is not the tales that drive his argument, but rather Erben’s article on Slavic mythology in the Czech encyclopedia published by Rieger. The first collection of Slovak tales was published by Ján Francisi, under the pseudonym Janko Rimavský, in 1845 and was entitled Slovenskje povesti (Slovak tales — note the unorthodox orthography: the collection was published prior to Štúr’s codification of Slovak). Keywords: christian; dobšinský; erben; folktales; interpretation; radúz; section; slavs; slovak; tales; ľudmíla; štúr
• Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, and Mark Lipovetsky, eds. Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales. by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - The book structure implies that section one should give us a sense of pre- Soviet, unpoliticized lore so that we can compare Soviet tales to this material and thus better understand how political intent was realized in story. Russian magic tales are numerous indeed. Keywords: folklore; section; tales
• The Snow Maiden and Other Russian Tales (World Folklore Series). Translated and retold by Bonnie C. Marshall. by Hill, John (2021) - Microsoft Word - Folk2006[3] sheryl format3.doc Reviews 133 The Snow Maiden and Other Russian Tales (World Folklore Series). The Snow Maiden and Other Russian Tales belongs to the World Folklore Series published by Libraries Unlimited, a division of the Greenwood Publishing Group. Keywords: maiden; marshall; snow; tales
• Haney, Jack V. An Anthology of Russian Folktales. by Jurić, Dorian (2021) - Altogether, the number of tales selected provides a surprising breadth of motifs and the amount of content continuity ensures that the average reader, upon completion, should be familiar with the regular cast of characters and able to solve any riddle a Russian storyteller could pose. The distribution is also well judged, with the weight placed upon the Tales of Heroes and Villains and Tales of Love and Life chapters (18 and 28 tales respectively), while the Animal Tales, Tales of Magic, Legends, Tales of Clever Fools and Anecdotes chapters receive slightly less attention (approximately 13 tales in each); the Serial Tales only number three due to their length. Keywords: book; collection; tales
• Ben-Amos, Dan. (ed.), Leonard J. Schramm, (trans.) Folktales of the Jews. Volume 2. Tales from Eastern Europe. by Olteanu, Antoaneta (2021) - Tales from Eastern Europe. The editors of the Folktales of the Jews collection, Dr. Dov Noy (Bar Ilan University) and Dr. Dan Ben-Amos (Pennsylvania University), are now presenting readers and experts with the second volume of the collection, Tales from Eastern Europe. Keywords: tales; volume
• Marshall, Bonnie C., trans. Van Deusen, Kira, ed. Far North Tales: Stories of the Peoples of the Arctic Circle (World Folklore Series). by Murphy-Lee, Meghan (2012) - /SVE /TUR /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. (Za stvaranje Adobe PDF dokumenata najpogodnijih za visokokvalitetni ispis prije tiskanja koristite ove postavke. Keywords: adobe; arctic; book; peoples; tales
• Turner, Kay and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms by Burns, B. Stu (2014) - They note the many Grimm tales where a man must discard an enchantment that makes him ugly, but must reach through several strains of world folklore (including several versions of “Peg Bearskin”) for tales where an ugly woman must transform to become beautiful; that trope is absent in the Grimm corpus. Kay Turner takes on perhaps the most radical transformation, casting the tale of “Frau Trude,” where a girl is transformed into firewood by a witch, into a story of queer desire and fulfillment. Keywords: chapter; grimms; queer; section; tales
• O.V. Belova and G.I. Kabakova, ed. U Istokov Mira: Russkie Etiologicheskie Skazki I Legendy (At the Origins of the World: Russian Etiological Tales and Legends) by Balzamo, Elena (2015) - A number of etiological stories may seem amazingly similar in different popular traditions, even those geographically remote from each other. This book has its origin in the volume of Russian etiological tales (Contes et légéndes de Russie, Flies France, Paris 2005) that one of the authors, the French ethnologist Galina Kabakova, published in French within the Flies series Aux origines du monde. Keywords: stories; tales
• Sibelan Forrester, Helena Goscilo, Martin Skoro, and Jack Zipes. Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales by Spasova, Shannon (2015) - Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is, as it acknowledges in the introductory pages, a book for several audiences: those of Russian heritage, specialists in Russian culture and folklore, students, and general readers. The foreword, written by renowned scholar of fairy tales Jack Zipes, discusses some of the essential features of Baba Yaga and her relationship to western witches as well as character and thematic traditions from other cultures. Keywords: baba; tales
• Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy. (eds.). Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television by Boivin, Genia (2016) - Done are the years where fairy tales were almost essentially associated with traditional film animation and children’s culture. Using the television musical Cinderella (1965), Patricia Sawin presents an autoethnography where she challenges the traditional assumption that fairy tales do not question conservative gender roles. Keywords: book; fairy; series; tales; television
• Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler with Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson (trans.). Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Francis, Yelena (2016) - It includes a rich variety of magic tales, ranging from early recorded versions to authors’ reworkings and adaptations. In this part are adaptations of magic tales and the satire on the Communist regime. Keywords: book; folklore; magic; notes; tales
• Schmiesing, Ann. Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. by Kononenko, Natalie (2016) - Awareness of external influences on the text has now expanded to include collector biographies and how these have shaped which tales were collected and how the tales were then processed for publication (e.g. The Teller’s Tale, ed. When it comes to folktales, discussions of disability are few and many of them, psychoanalytical interpretations in particular, view disability in tales as symbolic. Keywords: disability; schmiesing; tales

• Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Jurić, Dorian (2022) - Despite his humble roots, at the time of his death at age 33, Parry was an assistant professor at Harvard and the man who had made irrelevant the centuries-old Homeric Question. Like Kanigel’s prior subjects, Parry is a figure who looms large in a particular scholarly sphere but is basically unknown outside of it. Keywords: chapters; kanigel; life; parry
• Russian Old Believers: Three Videos. Old Believers, Directed by Margaret Hixon; The Old Believers, directed by John Paskievich; Savoniha, a Siberian Old Believer, a film by Costanzo Allione. by McKibben, Margaret (2021) - What makes them Old Believers, of course, is their faithfulness to Russian Orthodox Church life as it existed prior to liturgical reforms introduced in the seventeenth century. Under intermittent persecution from the Russian government and the official, reformed church, many Old Believers fled to isolated regions of Russia or left Russia altogether. Keywords: believers; film; life; paskievich; savoniha
• From "Walled-Up Wife" to a "Room of One's Own:" Gender and Migration among Macedonians in Germany by Stojanović, Lidija (2021) - They then brought their wives over from Macedonia and built family life and households in Germany. Apart from the stimulus of a new career, they experienced the new space as an obligation upon themselves to take charge of family life and the domestic finances. Keywords: bourdieu; class; family; gender; germany; habitus; hamburg; life; macedonian; male; migrants; relations; room; wife; women

• As the Year 1990 Drew Near ... by Ivanits, Linda (2021) - Some peasants were strongly under the influence of these nimors; some were not.2 More elaborate information comes from Iaroslavl, Saratov, and Novgorod Provinces. A. Balov, a correspondent the Danilovsk District of in Iaroslavl Province, wrote that many peasants expected the world to end either November 4th or 13th, 1899. Other peasants thought that a fiery rain would fall upon the earth and destroy it as was predicted in Holy Scripture. Keywords: earth; end; peasants; world
• Ryan, W. F. Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travelers, The Panizzi Lectures, 2005. by Ivanits, Linda (2021) - Beyond the bounds of the book, however, the designation of their world view as religious is somewhat limiting as a tool for discussion; for example, peasant views of what constitutes a sin include offences against hygiene or social convention that have nothing to do with religion. Professor Heretz takes this trend further by arguing convincingly that the traditional peasant world view continued to survive in a world of change, and hence any assessment of peasant reactions to various crises in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia must bear this in mind. Keywords: attitudes; chapter; peasants; world
• Heretz, Leonid. Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars. by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - Beyond the bounds of the book, however, the designation of their world view as religious is somewhat limiting as a tool for discussion; for example, peasant views of what constitutes a sin include offences against hygiene or social convention that have nothing to do with religion. Professor Heretz takes this trend further by arguing convincingly that the traditional peasant world view continued to survive in a world of change, and hence any assessment of peasant reactions to various crises in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia must bear this in mind. Keywords: attitudes; chapter; peasants; world

• Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World by Knight, Matthew E. (2020) - With Storytelling in Siberia, Robin Harris provides an engaging and detailed account of an epic tradition’s near disappearance and revitalization over the past century. Harris lived in Siberia’s Sakha Republic (officially designated as Yakutia within the Russian Federation) for a decade from 1995 onward, and returned for fieldwork between 2009 and 2011. Keywords: book; harris; olonkho; sakha
• Engel, Barbara Alpern. Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin by Worobec, Christine D. (2024) - Engel delivers on her promise in a later section, noting the ways in which the twenty-five-year-old landowner had “anticipat[ed] happiness in his marriage” and sought in a spouse “a virtuous and submissive character, and competency in household management” and not simply the economic exchange of a suitable dowry (27). Folklorica FULL 2024 Reviews 75 FOLKLORICA 2024, Vol. XXVIII Engel, Barbara Alpern. Keywords: book; engel; household
• Müller, Axel, Christopher Halls and Ben Williamson. Mermaids: Art, Symbolism and Mythology by Petrova, Elka Petrova (2024) - The book, Mermaids: Art, Symbolism, and Mythology by Axel Müller, Christopher Halls and Ben Williamson, offers a meticulous and comprehensive exploration of the representation of the art, symbolism, and mythology of mermaids. Mermaids: Keywords: book; mermaids
• Amato, Anthony J. The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority among Ukraine’s Hutsuls by Dabrowski, Patrice M. (2025) - These texts, together with Hutsul rituals, were creatively reconfigured or plumbed for new meanings by the Hutsuls, in a number of instances not in keeping with the purported purpose of a given text. The author takes an intertextual approach to the complexity of Hutsul texts and rituals, which he sets in context. Keywords: book; chapter; hutsuls; region
• Nadia Stangé-Zhirovova. Une autre Russie. Fêtes et rites traditionelles du peuple russe, Paris: Peeters. 1998. xxii + 265 pp. 15 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 2-87723-380-4. by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - Although US colleagues may not have Francophone students, British and Canadian teachers of courses on Russian folklore, who do encounter them, will find this volume a useful addition to their reading lists. What initially seemed shocking to at least this anglophone Slavist was the almost total absence of references to work published in English: four in all, of which only one, Frank Miller's Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era (Armonk, NY, 1990) is on Russian folklore. Keywords: book; discussion; folklore; nadia
• Catherine Merridale. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia. by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - Here, by contrast, one of the strands running through the book details the ways in which traditional death beliefs maintained their hold over the population in various ways throughout the Soviet period and do so still today. Part of this stems from the author’s realization that, to understand the specificity of the Russian reaction to the tragedies of their recent history, she needed to be aware of the cultural context, in particular folk funeral rituals and death beliefs. Keywords: book; chapter; dead; death; funeral
• Mark Joffe and Joseph Krafczik. Perun, the God of Thunder by Ryan, W. F. (2021) - It is not that one can point to much in particular and say it is incorrect (what can be wrong in folklore or mythology, except other scholars?), but it must also be said that the book is full of sweeping comparisons and unsupported assertions, selective use of unattributed etymologies (Vasmer is listed in the bibliography but not in the text or notes, like several other items), use of bogus, frivolous, or incompetent sources (the Velesova kniga is quoted several times without even a health warning, as is the worthless ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of Russian Slavic Myth and Legend), uncritical use of other sources (the Prince Igor’ story is discussed at some length as a twelfth-century epic with no mention that there are, at the very least, some questions about its textual integrity), failure to mention a whole range of relevant work (for example, no reference in the text to B. A. Uspenskii on the association of Veles and Perun with St Nicholas, although his book is mentioned in the bibliography, nor, at the level of bibliography of the subject, the standard serial bibliography Russkii fol’klor, or Kulikovskii’s Bibliography of Slavonic Mythology). It takes us through the (few) references to Perun in the earliest Slav and other medieval texts, and an excursus on the etymology of the name (with none of the etymologies dated or sourced); through supposed analogs in other cultures (p. 13 “Perun in his various aspects is encountered among other Aryan religions”); through various aspects of Russian culture and belief, even “The Lame Leg: A Short Digression” (with no reference to Carlo Ginzburg). Keywords: book; perun
• Priscilla Carrasco. Praise Old Believers. by Robson, Roy R. (2021) - It is a respectful depiction of Old Believer life as the author saw it, representations of tradition in the midst of rapid change. A coffee-table sized volume with excellent photographic reproduction and art-book design, it weaves together text and photographs (some in color) of Old Believers in Oregon and Alaska from 1966-1987. Keywords: believers; book; photographs
• Elizabeth Ann Warner (E. E. Uorner). Vladimir Iakovlevich Propp i russkaia fol'kloristika. by Haney, Jack V. (2021) - However, given the paucity of direct evidence for either of these in Russian tradition, Propp makes wide use of evidence from other traditions. In this compact study of Propp (1895-1970), arguably the most influential Russian folklorist of the twentieth century, Warner demonstrates the influences on his thinking, both in the formative years as a student and young lecturer, of the great Russian philologists of pre-Revolutionary Russia, and of his colleagues in the early years of the Soviet state. Keywords: book; propp; warner
• Douglas Rogers. The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Culture and Society after Socialism Series) by Wigzell, Faith (2021) - ISBN 978-0-8014-7520-7 In the late 17th century priestless Old Believers settled in and around Sepych in the Upper Kama area of Perm’ region, aiming to preserve “a spark of true piety” from the corrupting influence of the world. Chapters 5-7 look at post-socialist Sepych. Keywords: book; community; elders; rogers; sepych
• Mucz, Michael. Baba’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada by Forrester, Sibelan (2014) - The text asserts several times that later generations of Ukrainian Canadians rejected traditional healing practices not because they were ineffective, but because they considered them old-fashioned and embarrassing, a reaction not unusual for assimilating second-generation immigrants (18, 46 and elsewhere). Mucz otherwise offers no judgments, which will make this book friendly to anyone who might want to use the information for actual healing practice, as well as for ethnographers and other scholars. Keywords: book; healing; mucz

• About SEEFA by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2020) - The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is devoted to an exchange of knowledge among scholars interested in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore. SEEFA seeks to promote instruction in Slavic, East European and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on the subject at national and international conferences, encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations, and fosters exchanges. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - 5-AboutSeefa1208 About SEEFA FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV 171 4e Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2022) - The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by SEEFA (2022) - The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by SEEFA (2023) - The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by SEEFA (2024) - Folklorica FULL 2024 About SEEFA 89 FOLKLORICA 2024, Vol. XXVIII The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• About SEEFA by SEEFA (2025) - XXIX The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) is a non- profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among researchers interested in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore. SEEFA promotes instruction in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian folklore, organizes panels on these topics at national and international conferences, and encourages the preparation of teaching materials and translations as well as publishes the journal Folklorica. Keywords: seefa
• SEEFA News - Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 2006) - Complete by none (1997) - Publishing Folklore Discussant: Non-Profit Status: The two sessions on Natalie Kononenko In the survey made a year SEEFA is applying to folklore at the MASS con- Teaching Slavic Folklore ago, respondents frequently vention in 1995 were so mentioned the need for trans-be classified as a non- well attended that we de- (See Zhivaia RONELLE ALEXANDER members of SEEFA will starina, 3. 1995.) be invited as a group to Riabininskie chteniia Slavic Department take the MTA across the 95 ... Keywords: aaass; folklore; newsletter; president; profit; seefa; slavic; university
• People by none (2001) - SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 1 Vol_V_No_1_2000_page7.pdf SEEFAV1S20009_26 SEEFAV1S200027_40 SEEFAV1S200041_48 Keywords: seefa
• Martha Forsyth, Slushaĩ shterko, i dobre zampomni ... Pecnite i zhivota na Linka Gekova Gergova ot selo Bistritsa Sofiĩsko by Beissinger, Margaret H. (2001) - SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 2 Keywords: seefa
• Catalogue of Lithuanian Narrative Folklore by Valiukaite, Lina (2001) - SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 2 Keywords: seefa
• Подготовлен к печати один из кластеров «Сравнительного словаря» by Khrolenko, A. T. (1998) - SEEFA Journal , Vol II (1997), No. 2 Keywords: seefa
• Announcements by none (1998) - SEEFA Journal , Vol II (1997), No. 2 Keywords: seefa
• Editor’s Note-Folklorica 2013 by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2014) - This 60-volume series (31 have been released, 3 are in press) represents one of the finest collections of folk material (including poetic genres, prose genres and ritual) in the much neglected region of Asian portion of Russia. This edition features articles drawing on a range of folk traditions from material culture (Franklin Sciacca’s analysis of Ukrainian embroidery from the 19th century to the present and its connection to identity in many social, temporal, regional and national contexts) to vernacular religion (Tatiana Filosofova’s study of conceptions of the apocalypse as reflected among Old Believers in Latvia), from personal narrative (Adrienne Harris’ examination of the folk elements within the oral histories of women fighter pilots in World War II) to neo-folk ritual (Ana Stefanova’s fascinating treatment of the invented tradition of nestinarstvo in one Bulgarian village). Keywords: folklore; material; seefa

• If It Dries Out, It's No Good: Women, Hair and Rusalki Beliefs by Rappoport, Philippa (2021) - Even the most skeptical anthropologist must admit that head hair is rather frequently employed as a public symbol with an explicitly sexual significance ... There is something instinctual about communicating social behavior and intentions through hair. Keywords: braid; bride; church; hair; maslova; new; ritual; rusalka; vol; wedding; women
• Worobec, Christine D. Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia. by Kukharenko, Svitlana P. (2021) - She looks at the perception of the phenomenon of klikushestvo among various strata of Russian society, as well as the culture of klikushestvo itself over the span of several centuries, from the 16-17th centuries when it became commonplace till the 1930s when it was repressed – but not rooted out – by Soviet policies. Although secular commissions helped to investigate both miraculous healings and epidemics of possession, the Church could not accept their materialistic view of the impossibility of such phenomena and emphasized the devil’s dangerous role in a secular society. Keywords: author; church; klikushestvo
• Crummey, Robert O. Old Believers in a Changing World by Haney, Jack V. (2014) - The second essay in the book, “Old Belief as Popular Religion,” was published in 1993 during the heyday of, especially, European studies of popular religious movements, particularly in the Roman Catholic parts of Western Europe. But as he points out, he did have a certain amount of luck in addition to his excellent training, and he soon became a scholar of renown with the publication of his The Old Believers and the World of Anti- Christ (1970). Keywords: belief; church; crummey

• Video-Recording Ritual Incantations and Folk Cures by Kliauz, Vladimir (2021) - Thus the main elements of the incantations, enacted by the znakharka during the cure for evil eye, consist of the following: an address to the heavenly powers (God, the Mother of God, angels, saints) for help in healing, and the washing away of disease (such as the evil eye or fear) by means of water. The question arises as to whether the group of features that comprise the Semeiskii ritual cure for evil eye is of local relevance only, or whether it is more broadly typical of all Russian incantations. Keywords: eye; god; incantations; patient; ritual; semeiskie; transbaikal; water
• Challenges in Collecting Data from Family Sources by Kindraka-Jensen, Monica (2021) - Nevertheless, Kay, who over the years had maintained a warm relationship with my parents through the mails, enjoyed getting to know me and personally gloried in recalling K family stories. For the most part, K family members are practiced in the art of narration and storytelling. Keywords: family; ritual; sisters

• Olson, Laura and Svetlana Adonyeva. The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise by Bidoshi, Kristin (2015) - In their interpretations of how women “perform folklore” during life-cycle and calendar rituals for example, Olson and Adonyeva reflect on the “nature of subjectivity and history, agency and tradition” as they seek to further illuminate the continually shifting relationships Russian rural women have with tradition (23). Russian village women created their own life scripts against the backdrop of tradition; as Olson and Adonyeva conclude, those scripts did not exactly follow the script defined by the cultural imperative but tradition was “capacious enough, generous enough, and flexible enough to accommodate variations, creativity, individual agency, compromise, and even transgressions” (314). Keywords: adonyeva; olson; tradition; village; women

• Krafcik, Patricia A. Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht by Cooper, David L. (2025) - XXIX Krafcik, Patricia A. Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht. In contrast, Ivan Olbracht (pseud. Keywords: bogatyrev; olbracht; region
• Красиков, Михайло (ред.), М.Ф. Сумцов: Дослідження з етнографії та історії Слобідської України. Вибрані праці . [Mykhailo Krasykov (ed.) M. F. Sumtsov: Research in Ethnography and History of the Sloboda Ukraine. Selected Writings] by Kukharenko, Svitlana (2021) - In addition it should appeal to all interested readers who appreciate good reading combined with quality work and meticulous analysis done by both Sumtsov and Krasykov. Krasykov underscores that although Sumtsov belonged to the cosmopolitan intelligentsia of his time he remained a patriot who looked with loving eyes at his own countrymen. Keywords: chapter; krasykov; region; sloboda; sumtsov
• Zhivaia Starina in 2016 by Akhmetova, Maria V. (2017) - A detailed folkloristic and linguistic commentary to the publication by A. V. Dadykin and V. I. Erofeeva was published in the fourth issue of the journal in the section “Reviews” (“Back to the Published: ‘chiuchelo-miachelo’” by E. L. Berezovitch, O. V. Belova). The third issue opened with the section “Folklore and literacy” and presented a range of materials, including the 18th century compilation of tips and tricks and magical prescriptions (A. L. Livshits); a folk prayer for cattle with the mention of mysterious creatures chiuchelo and miachelo from 18th century manuscripts (A. V. Dadykin and V. I. Erofeeva); herbalist manuals from the 19th/20th centuries (A. B. Ippolitova); manuscripts about magical stones: ‘eagle stone’, ‘swallow stone’, ‘hen stone’, etc., from the 18th century Natural Book (O. V. Belova); and a manuscript of magic spells and folk prayers from Volgograd Region (V. A. Shilkin). Keywords: district; folklore; region; section

• Sviće “Smurf”: Intertextual Linkages in Protests Against Montenegro’s 2019 Freedom of Religion Law by Zenović, Nikolina (2022) - Their analysis reveals how language mediates and becomes embedded in protest, acknowledging intertextuality’s meaning-making potential for protesters and wider audiences upon circulation of protest texts [Ben Said and Kasanga 2016: 78-79]. XXV 42 embeddings that motivate protest texts, particularly at a time where such materials often circulate beyond their origins virtually. Keywords: freedom; intertextual; law; linkages; montenegro; music; papa; protests; religion; religion law; serbian; smurf; song; sviće; texts; video; vol; xxv; zora
• Omens, Proverbs and Tales: Genre Fluidity in Folklore by Pasichniuk, Inna (2021) - Omens are a specific genre of folklore. Omens are found in every known folklore tradition. Keywords: meaning; omen; texts; unit; vol
• Review of The Memory of the Earth: Lithuanian Legends by Korzonaitė, Edita (2021) - The narratives selected for inclusion are grouped into eleven chapters and organized by geographical region: In the neighboIhood of Vilnius, The districts of Kaunas, Papareiai, Trakai, and Kemave, The earth of iemaiCiai, Central Lithuania, Eastern Lithuania, From Raigardas to Simnas, Panemune, The Land of lietuvininkai, Siiduva, and From Lithuania as a Whole. A table of the abbreviations used is provided and information on the cataloguing of Lithuanian texts and on the relationships between them is included. Keywords: texts
• Olexandra Britsyna and Inna Golovakha. Prozovyi fol’klor sela Ploske na Chernigivschiny (teksti ta rozvidki) (Prose Folklore of Ploske, a Village in Chernihivshchyna (Texts and Analysis)) by Kukharenko, Svitlana (2021) - Part six is a set of appendices divided into seven subchapters: 1) The fifty-one narratives recorded by Malynka in the nineteenth century, 2) Malynka’s obituary, 3) tales recorded at different times and by other collectors from M. Trush, the best male tale performer in Ploske, 4) tales and other prose texts recorded at different times from M. Perepechai, a female performer, 5) tales recorded at different times from the performers’ “pupils,” 6) a list of the main prose texts forming the narrative tradition of Ploske, and 7) concluding commentaries, consisting of two theoretical paragraphs: Britsyna’s “Peculiarities of Repeated Performances and the Problem of Folk Memory” and Golovakha’s “Some notes on the History of Performance Studies in Ukrainian and World Folkloristics.” Non-tale texts, such as memorates, fabulates, dreams, and personal narratives, are indexed according to the classification of mythological narrative. Keywords: narratives; ploske; prose; texts
• Coexistence or Conflict? The Problem of Dual Belief in Polish Folklore by Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna (2021) - We may find the effects of the confrontation between these two religious systems in various forms and genres of Polish folklore, especially magical folklore (such as charms/spells/incantations, private prayers of a magico-religious kind or complex magic acts). In private prayers said along with daily prayers, this dualism is determined by the positive sacrum – God, and the negative – the Devil, as the two antithetical demiurges found in the Slavic cosmogonic myth. Keywords: belief; christian; christianity; coexistence; conflict; folklore; god; magic; polish; prayers; religion; texts; vol; warsaw

• Male Mythological Beings Among the South Slavs by Conrad, Joseph L. (2021) - For example, the protector housesnake,(4) mischievous forest and dangerous water spirits, and many lesser mythological beings have been reported in several South Slavic territories in the last forty years. As it is related to zmaj, serpent which is masculine, it fits into the category of male mythological spirits. Keywords: belief; family; forest; house; protector; snake; south; spirit; vedi; water
• New Publication on Slovak Family and Folk Customs [Review of Tradicie slovenskej rodiny, comp. Marta Botniková] by Krafcik, Patricia (2021) - The volume deals with traditional family structures in Slovakia, the extended family and kinship terms, the relationship of the family to the village, the architecture of the peasant house­ hold, the distribution of family property, birth control, and family customs. The chapter most relevant to the work and interest of many of American folklorists is one of the last and concerns family customs. Keywords: customs; family; slovak

• W. F. Ryan. The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia by Ivanits, Linda (2021) - It is divided into sixteen chapters that cover, among other things, popular magic and the evil eye; the functions of wizards and witches and Russian�s extensive terminology for them; divinations, omens, and signs; dreams and predictions from the human body (itches, twitches, sneezing and the like); spells and curses (including a discussion of the structure of the zagovor and abundant translated texts); talismans and amulets; materia magica (with a very lengthy and useful roster of real and fantastic plants prescribed for magic rites); texts as magic (including �The Letters of Christ to Abgar,� �The Letter to St. Peter/St. Nicholas,� �The Dream of the Virgin,� �and �The Twelve Fridays�), numerology, geomancy, alchemy, and astrology; and a final chapter on the church, the law and the state (including a roster of witchcraft cases that the Synodal court dealt with in the 18th century). For Ryan magic seems integral to the whole human experience. Keywords: magic; ryan
• Michael D. Bailey. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. by Kukharenko, Svitlana P. (2021) - On the contrary, states Bailey, protest against the scientific view of the world has led to a new interest in magic. The word “Europe” in the title is misleading for those who would like to know more about Eastern European magic: Bailey warns at the beginning that “Europe itself will be defined largely as Western Christendom, the boundaries of which fluctuated but generally centered on Western Europe” (p. 6). Keywords: bailey; europe; magic

• Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump by Boivin, Genia (2020) - In addition, the author’s story borrowed elements from Russian traditional folktales such Ivan Tsarevich and the Fire Bird and Sivka Burka. Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump. Keywords: horse; ivan; story; yershov

• Patty Wageman, (et al. ed.). Russian Legends. Folk Tales and Fairy Tales. by Chuchvaha, Hanna (2021) - The next work, “Byliny in Russian art” by Lidia Iovleva, is a survey of the growing attention to folklore that happened during the 19th century. The article is devoted primarily to the various folk motifs in Russian art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, describing mostly the works of the Peredvizhniki and the Abramtsevo artists’ colony. Keywords: art; artists; author; folklore; folktales; vasnetsov

• “A Megcsalt Férj” or Cunningly Lingual Wives in Hungarian Ballad Tradition by Vasvári, Louise O. (2021) - In fact, in many cases informants were handicapped by modesty and would not reveal much more obscene versions they knew, and in other cases collectors would not write down such versions [on the bowdlerization and expurgation of sexual folklore, see Goldstein 1967: 374-386]. In this report I shall study one widely circulating European ballad tradition concerning wifely infidelity, to illustrate that although details among versions are temporally and culturally variable, they all belong to one narrative deep structure having to do with “cunningly lingual” wives and cuckolded husbands. Keywords: ballad; bed; hungarian; husband; lingual; lover; tradition; vasvári; version; wife; wives; women

• Bronislava Kerbelyte, Tipy narodnykh skazanii. Strukturno-semantycheskaia klassifikacia etiologicheskikh, mifologicheskikh i istoricheskikh skazanii i predanii by Racenaite, Radville (2021) - Time and place in mythological legends are concrete. These propositions lead to the conclusion that the main function of mythological legends is pragmatic; they not only regulate relationships with the mythological in the surrounding environment, but also promote traditionally accepted interpersonal relationships among members of the community. Keywords: legends; mythological
• Hasan-Rokem, Galit and Ithamar Gruenwald (eds.). Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered by Renker, Cindy K. (2017) - Ginzberg’s extensive multi-volume collection helped shape American conservative Judaism and to this day counts as one of the landmarks in modern Jewish literature and one of the seminal works of Jewish folklore. In Chapter Two, Hillel Newman introduces Ginzberg’s doctoral thesis on aggadic literature in the writings of early Christian Church Fathers as a source for his later project and shows how Christian authors borrowed and adapted Jewish legends. Keywords: ginzberg; legends; work

• V. Ia. Propp and Ethnomusicology: Memoirs and Approaches by Zemtsovsky, Izaly I. (2021) - Propp illustrated these hypotheses by his analysis of Russian folklore genres, a subject to which he devoted the cited articles. Microsoft Word - seefa2001.DOC 26 V. Ia. Propp and Ethnomusicology: Memoirs and Approaches (1) Keywords: folklore; genre; music; propp

• The Code of Presence: Belarusian Protest Embroideries and Textile Patterns: Exhibition Report by Razor, Sasha (2022) - While not all artists are familiar with the term and do not identify their work in this way, from an outsider art critic perspective, Belarusian protest embroideries appear to fit the large global art movement, Craftivism. My research has revealed three distinct, albeit overlapping categories or storylines: 1) individual craftivist strategies of Belarusian protest embroideries; 2) collective craftivist embroidery practices; and 3) representations of traditional textile patterns in other media. Keywords: art; artist; august; bazlova; belarusian; craftivism; embroideries; embroidery; exhibition; image; maroz; minsk; patterns; pcholka; project; protest; protest embroideries; textile; textile patterns; vol; women; work; xxvi
• Folkloristics at the 1998 International Conference of Slavists by Ajdačić, Dejan (1999) - Slavic folklore in a non-Slavic environment drew the attention of L. Fialkova, O. Mikitenko and a group of authors. while several other works were presented in linguistics sections (S. Tolstaia, J. Bartminski, A. Plotnikova, T. Lukinova and others). Keywords: cherkasy; conference; folklore; history; work

• Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies by Safran, Gabriella (2020) - Jewish studies scholars all own these books, we read them, we use the images in our presentations, and we assign sections to our students, and at the same time we want to make sure people know that we know they do not give us the whole picture. Ye book concludes with a bracing self-reflection about how the author as a scholar evolved away from the graduate school imperative to reject nationalism and the folkloric and focus instead on modernist literary experimentation, toward a willingness to see nostalgia and popular ethnography as also worthy of analysis. Keywords: books; ethnography; jelen; stories
• Earthwatch Project "Folklore of Rural Russia" by Minyonok, Yelena V.; Minyonok, Sergei (2021) - Team 2: July 15 - 26, 1999 (recording and investigating of the ritual of the Holy Icon of Kazanskaia Virgin Mary, folk songs, mythological stories). Team 3: August 2-13, 1999 (recording and investigating of folk songs, mythological stories). Keywords: stories

• Summer Seminar in Cossack Folk Music at Moscow State Conservatory by Olson, Laura (2021) - They evol­ ved particular traditions drawn from their unusual lifestyles and proximity to non-Russian peoples; their music has been made popular in Russia through the efforts of numerous revivalist groups, such as the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, which has extensively toured the U.S. Both in Moscow and in Volgograd, participants will have ample opportunity to learn and practice songs and dances outside of scheduled classes. Includes group field trips to museums and parks in Moscow area (12 hours) Lectures, classes, and all songs taught will be translated into English for those who do not know Russian. Keywords: moscow; seminar

• Oldfield, Anna C. Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Women appear in the Book of Dede Korkut, an epic narrative dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries, yet dating the appearance of professional women performers is difficult. Oldfield begins with a brief description of her encounter with women performers in Baku, then heads back in time to look at what we know about the history of minstrelsy in general and women performers in particular. Keywords: ashiqs; oldfield; performers; women

• The Index of Serbian Folktales. A Website. by Radulović, Nemanja (2024) - Some other publications have also included indexes of prose material, such as the ongoing project, started in 1990s, of publishing folklore material from nineteenth- century journals in book form, jointly run by the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade and Matica Srpska in Novi Sad. Some thesis research has also included indices and/or work on specific tale types. Keywords: belgrade; collection; folktales; index; project; serbian
• Selected Bibliography of Materials on Russian Folklore by Bailey, James (2021) - As everyone who has tried to follow and perhaps to purchase recent books about Russian folklore knows, there no longer is any certain way of finding out what is actually published in Russia. At the same time there are several positive signs for the study of Russian folklore today because a number of new fine scholarly works are appearing, many older classics are being republished, basic reference works are coming out, and neglected genres such as incantations, memorates tbylichkil. Keywords: collection; folklore; institut; nauka; series; spb

• Folklore in the United States and Canada: An Institutional History. by Carlson, Maria (2022) - The first explores programs that emerged prior to the 1960s; the second looks at the prospering of folklore programs in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily at public Canadian and American universities. After all, not all folklore programs escaped institutional dismantlement (including major Ph.D. granting programs at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas at Austin, and California, Los Angeles). Keywords: folklore; history; programs

• Janeček, Petr. Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture by Collopy, Erin (2024) - As Spring Man passes the terrified boy, he grimaces at him and lets out a sound like the “bark of a rutting deer” (2). Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities). Keywords: janeček; man; spring
• In the Seventy-Seventh Kingdom: Carpatho-Rusyn Folktales by Marshall, Bonnie (2018) - Other devils decide to win the gold back, but they are unsuccessful in a race with a “lad” who turns out to be a hare (Andreev Type 1072: “How Dear Old Grandfather Went to School” is Andreev Type 1665: Keywords: andreev; boy; man; raven; rusyn

• Golubeva, Liubov’ V. and Sofiia O.Kupriianova, Л.В. Голубеваand С.О. Куприянова. Материнство в советской деревне: ритуалы, дискурсы, практики в двух томах; том I: Исследование; том II: Фрагменты интервью [Motherhood in the Soviet Village: Rituals, Discourses, and Practices in Two Volumes; Volume 1: The Study; Volume 2: InterviewExcerpts]. by Muskheli, Veronica (2024) - Golubeva and Kupriianova present a detailed and coherent picture of shifting motherhood practices in the region. As a systematic analysis of extensive materials, the text is an important contribution to research on the anthropology of motherhood, both in historical terms and for understanding the worldviews of contemporary mothers in Russia. Keywords: authors; mother; motherhood; volume

• Živjeti s nadnaravnim bićima: Vukodlaci, vile i vještice hrvatskih tradicijskih vjerovanja by Jurić, Dorian (2018) - Their discussion about the connection between supernatural beings and large-scale trauma (223- 30) and the use of supernatural scares as covers for thievery (230-6) hearken back to similar comments made by Veselin Čajkanović in the 1920s, while the narrative of an informant who claims to have been abducted by vile as a child (238-43) is highly informative and enlightening of older materials. Based on periodic field research conducted in multiple regions of interior Dalmatia between 2003 and 2009, Šešo’s research is a much-needed return to the question of the role of supernatural beings in society. Keywords: beings; belief; chapter; šešo

• Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia by Baruch, Ruzhica Samokovlija (2023) - Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia by Alison K. Smith provides a profound and high-quality exploration of Russian food and its historical significance. In the opening pages of the introduction, “Let Us Begin with Soup,” the author guides readers through three distinct yet interconnected histories of Russian food. Keywords: bread; food; russia; smith

• Natalie Kononenko. Slavic Folklore. A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks) by Haney, Jack V. (2021) - The ties between Ukrainian folklore and the other arts are less well known to the English-speaking world. Natalie Kononenko’s recent volume in the Greenwood Folklore Handbooks series is a most welcome addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on Slavic folklore in English. Keywords: folklore; kononenko; slavic

• Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practice in the City by Chevalier, Joan F. (2020) - Sakha language and culture remains a notable exception to this trend. Although Sakha language was never explicitly banned, ethnic Sakha experienced an unspoken taboo against using their native language in public spaces. Keywords: ferguson; language; sakha

• Фиалков, Лев и Лариса Фиалкова (сост.). Народы мира о жизни и смерти, здоровье и болезнях, больных и врачах. Пословицы и поговорки. by Chuchvaha, Hanna (2021) - This collection would have added many topical proverbs to their texts and enriched the spectrum of books listed in the bibliography. Peoples of the World on Life and Death, Health and Illness, Patients and Physicians. Proverbs and Sayings]. Keywords: death; health; proverbs

• Александр Б. Страхов. Ночь перед Рождеством: народное христианство и рождественская обрядность на Западе и у славян (A. B. Strakhov. Christmas Eve: Folk Christianity and Christmas rituals in the West and in Slavic cultures.) by Prestel, David K. (2021) - As we seek to understand the nature of Russian popular religion, highly creative, comparative studies like Strakhov’s are an essential part of the process. He convincingly demonstrates, by citing beliefs and ceremonies in Orthodox as well as Catholic countries, that Russian practice is neither unique nor pagan in origin, but, like popular Christian religion practiced throughout Europe, was the product of a folk interpretation of Christian belief that is best understood within the context of a shared Christian heritage developed in socially similar conditions, rather than a common Indo-European past. Keywords: christian; pagan; religion; strakhov

• Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths by Koven, Mikel J. (2022) - However, I would like to see other film scholars adapt Greenhill’s work to other film cultural contexts, such as applying her study of LAIKA studio’s animation (33-65) to Švankmajer’s stop- motion animation, with particular attention to the revelation of the animator’s hand. And what is true for the Märchen is equally true for films based on, or which reference, those stories. Keywords: fairy; film; greenhill; tale
• Haney, Jack V., trans. and ed. Long, Long Tales from the Russian North by Marshall, Bonnie (2015) - When Ivan selects the marriage road, Nikonov has Ivan reasoning, “What the hell, I won’t go home without that” (193). Pudozh teller Fedor Fedorovich Kabrenov, who worked with wood as a carpenter and logger, has an extensive repertoire represented here by two tales, “About an Enchanted Mill” and “Ivan Tsarevich and Koshchei the Deathless.” Keywords: haney; ivan; kabrenov; korguev; tale

• Table of Contents by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2023) - 0.i-TOC1208 FOLKLORICA 2020, Vol. XXIV i FOLKLORICA Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association Vernacular Responses to the COVID-19 We Life and Sermons of Father Sergii (Romanov) J. Eugene Clay 135 Reports The Encyclopedia of Coronavirus Rumors and Fakes: A Report Natalie Kononenko 163 About SEEFA Keywords: xxiv

• Living in the Virtual Material World by Holloway, Peter W.; Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Rushnyky, or ritual towels, embroidered pieces of cloth that are considered to have potency, protect all openings, be they concrete openings such as windows, or metaphoric openings such as icons and pictures, which are �windows� unto the other world. The program provides many �tools� for generating 3D objects (cubes, cones, spheres, tubes are pre-made). Keywords: computer; figure; house; movie; object; scene

• Marking Death: Representations of Beliefs about the Dead in Ukrainian Cemeteries by Ingram, Anne (2021) - When one also considers that trees have traditionally been planted on Ukrainian graves and that there is a connection between the dead and vegetation, the markers become more significant and seem to fit a pattern. tJnlike American graves, Ukrainian graves rise at least slightly above the level of the surrounding ground. Keywords: beliefs; body; boundaries; cemeteries; cemetery; dead; douglas; graves; journal; living; markers

• Russkii shkolnyi fol'klor. Ot 'vyzvanii' Pikovoj damy do semeinykh rasskazov. [Russian School Folklore: From "Summoning" the Queen of Spades to Family Stories]. Moscow: Ladomir, 1998. 744 pp. by Pigin, Aleksandr V. (2021) - The collection under review is the most complete anthology of Russian school folklore to date, and the most diverse in terms of the materials presented. The editor of this volume is the prominent Petersburg folklorist and investigator of Russian culture and everyday life, A. F. Belousov, who also compiled the first collection of school folklore in Russian folkloristics, which appeared earlier (Shkol'nyi by' i fol'k/or: Y 2 ch. Keywords: children; folklore; school
• Game Traditions: Lessons for Life by Lacoss, Jann (2021) - (17) These games strengthen the notion of group importance and strength, indicating that childhood play parallels the larger social structure. While several other games also reflect the significance of the group, I have selected three as typical of the different types of children's games to be discussed. Keywords: children; games; group; gusi; individual; play; society; team

• Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The Evil Eye in Greece by Herzfeld, Michael (2023) - XXVII Crete, as Roussou notes, is linguistically distinctive, yet she claims that as a native anthropologist she did not have to master linguistic skills. Reviews 107 FOLKLORICA 2023, Vol. XXVII Roussou, Eugenia. Keywords: belief; eye; greek; roussou; term

• Klaniczay, Gábor, and Éva Pócs (eds). Demons, Spirits, Witches. by Krys, Svitlana (2021) - It addresses almost every angle pertaining to such beliefs and related phenomena, but its special focus is, of course, the thorough and systematic investigation of the judicial and trial accounts of the witchcraft prosecutions—mostly those, belonging to the hereto unexplored areas of Central, Southern, Northern and Eastern Europe—which complements the thriving field of the study of the West European witch hunts. Such criticism notwithstanding, the trilogy presents a pioneering investigation—even though, at times, only preliminary—in the area of demons, spirits, witchcraft phenomena and mythologies, and will be of interest to folklorists, historians, scholars of religion or literature, working in the field of the European learned demonology, popular lore, or literary tradition encompassing some of its elements (e.g., the Gothic or Romantic literary movement). Keywords: demons; practices; scholars; spirits; study; vol; witchcraft; witches

• Ukrainian Folklore Conference in Kyiv for Young Scholars by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Dr. Borysenko tells me that, even though the focus is on young researchers, there will be no age limit to conference participants, so you can spend SEEF A Journal page 52 SEEFA Journal 1998, Vol. III Ukrainian Folklore Conference in Kyiv for Young Scholars Natalie Kononenko, University of Virginia Another Ukrainian folklore conference, this one focusing on younger scholars and their work, is scheduled for April 17 and 18, 1999. Keywords: kyiv; university

• Polish Folklore Studies at the End of the Twentieth Century by Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna (2021) - The change in Polish folklore studies was also connected with a broadening of the term folk, whit:h. in traditional Polish studies of folklore, was associated only with peasants. Analytic procedures of this kind would bring Polish folklore studies into the mainstream of European and world humanist thought Th~ would also enable delineation of the general mechanisms governing the development of culture, as well as of national versions and variants that develop in various culturo-religious zones, e.g., the spheres of Western vs. Eastern Slavic Christianity or the nature of acculturation processes. Keywords: approach; folklore; journal; polish; studies

• Emily D. Johnson. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself. The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie. by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself. Johnson’s How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself. Keywords: johnson; kraevedenie; petersburg; study

• Senosios raštijos ir tautosakos sąveika: kultūrine Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės partiris by Šlekonytė, Jūratė (2000) - The cultmaI heritage of the GDL includes ethnic minorities and N. A. MoTOzova and V. N. Cekmonas discuss the contemporary folklore of Lithuanian Old Believers, focusing on the decline of oral tradition among them as people gradually forget real events and distort them. G. MiSkiniene examines the manuscripts of Lithuanian Tartars which reflect ethnic and philosophical features characteristic of Muslim nations. Keywords: conference; folldore; lithuanian
• “Le chemin, la route, la voie” (The road, the route, the path). Conference sponsored by the Slavic Studies Center at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - He spoke about the differences between animal migration and human travel, pointing out that animal migration, as much as it may follow a specific route, is instinctual while human travel is conscious. Sponsored by the Slavic Studies Center at the Sorbonne, the international conference “Le chemin, la route, la voie” featured a number of papers on folklore topics. Keywords: conference; road
• Folklore Conference in Ukraine by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - FOLKLORE CONFERENCE IN UKRAINE Natalie Kononenko, University of Virginia The Kyiv based Center for the Study of Oral History and Culture, the journal Rodovid, and the Cherkasy Ethnographic Museum invite you to take part in an international conference in Cherkasy, Ukraine as well as to conduct fieldwork (if you so wish) in central Ukraine in August 1998. August 4 Tuesday arrival in Kyiv; transportation by car to Cherkasy free of charge August 5 Wednesdayplenaiy sessions, morning and afternoon August 6 Thursday separate sessions, panels on: a) changes in social structure and civil society of the time b) transformations in expressive culture c) repression of ethnographers and cultural activists August 7 Friday plenary session (morning) and excursion (afternoon) Keywords: august; cherkasy; conference

• Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends. by Avramov, Kiril (2023) - Additional chapters examine Stalinist conspiracy theories exported to France and Italy. In turn, this leads the editors “to the conclusion that most [conspiracy theories] focus on four thematic areas: 1) conspiracy theories and their relationship with dictatorships or authoritarian regimes in the region, including the recent authoritarian drift of some East European countries; 2) antisemitic conspiracy theories (this category overlaps with the first one, since the Soviet Union, but especially Nazi Germany and its satellite countries, heavily instrumentalized anti-Jewish conspiracy theories); 3) conspiracy theories that are strongly entangled with national victimhood narratives, presenting the countries of the region as victims of great powers; 4) new trends or emerging conspiracy tropes in the region framed by the globalization process” (15). Keywords: conspiracy; theories; volume

• Andreas Johns. Baba Yaga. The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - ISBN 0-8204-6769-3. $29.95 (paper) Andreas Johns� book contains a well-researched analysis of the character Baba Iaga (just one of many versions of her name, as Johns notes). He then turns to a topic that is perhaps the most interesting in a fascinating book: an overview of Baba Iaga in the Slavic world. Keywords: baba; iaga; johns

• Svetlana B. Adoneva. Skazochnyi tekst i traditsionnaia kul'tura [The Text of the Tale and Traditional Culture]. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 2000. 183 pp. by Johns, Andreas (2021) - In her first chapter, Adoneva investigates the logical structure of folktale narrative. Adoneva proposes a typology of several kinds of dialogic folktale interactions. Keywords: adoneva; folktale; narrative

• Report from the Lectern: Reflections on Over Twenty Years of Teaching Folklore Courses. Stories for the Young and Old by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Students may come because they think a course is a gut, but does any of us really want to teach that kind of student? The metafolklore of the situation is that folklore courses are magic and that anyone teaching such courses will easily attract many students. Keywords: courses; folklore; students; subject; teaching

• Folklore and Cultural Anthropology on the Internet by Koz'min, A. V.; Arxipova, A. S. (2002) - (English) University of Turku: Folkloristics Department of Cultural Studies http://www.utu.fi/hum/folk Subject and Contents: Information on the Department (English) Universitat Wien: Institut fur Europaische Ethnologie http://www.univie.ac.at/volkskunde Subject: Information about the Institute. Contents: General information, description of research subjects, compilation of the publication Contemporary Legend (1991-1994). Keywords: contents; english; folklore; information; journal; publications; subject

• Aleksandr Kondratiev. On the Banks of the Yaryn. by Peterson-Bidoshi, Kristin (2021) - Valentina Brougher's translation of On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondrat�ev' (here transliterated as Kondratiev) , should be required reading for students of Russian literature, culture and folklore. Aleksandr Alekseevich Kondrat�ev (1876-1967) was relatively unknown, even in his native Russia, until 1993 when a volume of his prose entitled Sny (Dreams) was published in St. Petersburg. Keywords: brougher; novel

• Zubryts’kyi, Mykhailo. Zibrani tvory i materialy u tr’okh tomakh. Tom 1: Naukovi pratsi. Titlepage in English: Collected Works and Materials. Volume 1: Scholarly Works by Klymasz, Robert B. (2015) - Mykhailo Zubryts’kyi (1856-1919) was one of many village clerics attached to the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Old Galicia of Western Ukraine. Unfortunately, this encyclopedic compendium has no subject index to access directly the goldmine of information collected by Father Zubryts’kyi. Keywords: father; material; zubryts’kyi

• Table of Contents by SEEIR (2022) - On Transformation in Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s Fairy Tales Izabela Zdun 34 “Listen Then, Avars, to What I Tell You”: The Unification of Chechen and Avar Oral Culture in Tolstoy’s The Cossacks and Hadji Murat Svetlana Yefimenko 49 Reports The Code of Presence: Belarusian Protest Embroideries and Textile Patterns Sasha Razor Reviews 72 Gierek, Bożena and Wojciech Kosior, eds. Mortuary and Memorial Practice in Contemporary Russia Sergei Mokhov 111 Gabovich, Mikhail (Mischa Gabowitsch), Editor. Keywords: vol; xxvi

• Vashchenko, Alexander and Claude Clayton Smith, editor and translator, with a foreword by N. Scott Momaday. The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Marshall, Bonnie (2015) - It also sounds a warning with regard to the dire consequences of ignoring and/or destroying native traditions and beliefs. Other selections illustrate the traditions and rituals of native peoples and chronicle the challenges to those traditions and rituals. Keywords: anthology; apin; khanty; peoples; traditions

• Slavic and East European Folkloristics at the Canadian Museum of Civilization: An Overview by Klymasz, Robert B. (2021) - Slavic And East European Folkloristics at the Canadian Museum of Civilization: An Overview Robert B.Klymasz, Canadian Museum of Civilization In keeping with the growing recognition of Canada's multicultural profile and its concomitant discovery of terrae incognitae, the Canadian Museum of Civilization (nee National Museum of Canada, and later National Museum of Man), Canada's national museum of anthropology, began the earnest collection, documentation and study of Slavic and East European folklore materials in the early I%O's thanks in most part to the pioneering work of Kenneth Peacock. Among the pearls was the latter-day discovery of an unpublished collection of Russian incantations recorded (on paper) among Canada's newly arrived Doukhobor immigrants a century ago by one of V.I. Lenin's more illustrious cronies, V.D. Bonch-Bruevich. Keywords: canada; european; museum

• A Report on the Oral Traditions of the North Pacific Rim, A Performance Workshop by Alexander, Ronelle (2021) - Workshop participants came not only from different geographic regions (Russia, Siberia, Alaska, California, Scotland and Holland), but also from different strata of life experience. These representatives remained in the place of honor throughout the afternoon, during which workshop participants representing the different but related native traditions presented their art. Keywords: participants; scholars; workshop

• Using Digital Technology in the Field: Report on Folklore Research in Ukraine by Holloway, Peter W.; Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Computer files stored on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks formatted with one of the early operating systems (CP/M, TRSDOS, etc.) or sound recordings made on wire- recorders are not readable after twenty to fifty years. As noted above, digital recordings have precise timing associated with them and so the section of interest in the recording can be located immediately. Keywords: computer; digital; figure; file; movies; panorama; sound

• Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by Foltz, Richard (2022) - The Nart stories, which modern Ossetian scholars have organized into an “epic,” were until quite recently a loose and flexible collection of tales about a vanished race of men who lived for “feasting and fighting,” reflecting a clan-based raiding culture of which one can still perceive echoes in the Caucasus today. The standard Ossetian and Russian editions were both produced in the USSR during the mid-twentieth century but did not entirely eliminate variants, which are still known and transmitted within Ossetian popular culture. Keywords: english; ossetian

• Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State by Graham, Seth (2022) - The empirical chapters are organized thematically according to the topics of the texts analyzed therein: surveillance rumors; political jokes; metajokes; Lukashenko’s image; the Potemkin-village-style efforts to please the President and other political elites on their official visits; and the increasingly farcical elections that have been conducted every four or five years in Belarus since 1994. The book also breaks new ground in the fields of contemporary folklore studies and interdisciplinary humor research, and in particular the wide-ranging tradition of joke studies, represented in the Slavic and East European sphere by authors such as Alexandra Arkhipova, David Brandenberger, Jonathan Waterlow, and Elliott Oring. Keywords: astapova; belarus; humor

• Zuzana Profantová, ed. Traditional Culture as a Part of the Cultural Heritage of Europe. The Presence and Perspective of Folklore and Folkloristics. by Marshall, Bonnie (2021) - Dana Bittnerová discusses the relationship of written folklore to oral folklore in “Replication of Written Texts in Various Genres of Written Folklore.” UNESCO folklorists were intent on creating a document on “how to conduct and protect fieldwork, archives, publication and dissemination of genuine folklore,” how to deal with copyright issues, and how to distinguish between folklore, fakelore, and folklorisms (21). Keywords: ethnology; folklore; folkloristics; genres; states

• Vladimir S. Kliaus. Traditsionnaia kul'tura starobriadtsev (semeiskikh) Zabaikal'ia . CD-ROM. by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - Literary works that mention Old Believers are referenced, as are archives with repositories of Old Believer materials. Even though I do not teach Old Believer folklore, the healing practices of this group are similar enough to mainstream Russian practices for me to use the video clips in class. Keywords: believer; files; kliaus

• Omarbekova, Gulnara and Erik Aasland. Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research: Digital, Cognitive, Literary, and Ecological Approaches by Petrova, Elka Petrova (2025) - It demonstrates how Kazakh proverbs continue to evolve and maintain their cultural significance in the context of modern digital and ecological realities. Several chapters discuss how the revitalization of Kazakh proverbs through digital corpora can support bilingual education and heritage language learning, particularly among younger generations who may otherwise be disconnected from this rich oral tradition. Keywords: kazakh; proverbs; volume

• Kalmre, Eda. The Human Sausage Factory: A Study of Post-war Rumour in Tartu by Velikanova, Olga (2017) - However, Eda Kalmre does not discuss this disassociation though provides good historical and social background of post-war Tartu. Beside these fruitful elaborations, as a historian, I was especially interested in the political component of many horror rumors centered on the Soviet security police (misnamed KGB by the author, though it was called MGB in 1947), FOLKLORICA 2016, Vol. Keywords: rumors; study; tartu

• Worobec, eds. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook by Levin, Eve (2022) - They point out the prevalence of magical practice among all layers of society, elite and common, clergy and laity, educated and illiterate, men and women. Scholars of folklore and popular culture also will find much of value, particularly in the second part of the book, which is organized around aspects of magical practice— healing and harming, sex and love, demon possession, and orality, among others. Keywords: documents; volume; witchcraft

• Herzfeld, Michael. Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage by Nahachewsky, Andriy (2024) - Herzfeld argues: Neither country was officially colonized by Western states, but both were constantly under pressure to conform to Western demands, demands that were cultural as well as political and economic. I appreciate Herzfeld’s discussion in Chapter Five, where he describes his use of the concept of “polity” in a loose, “transgressive” way, as “a system of governance that is significantly more generic than the idea of state and is informed by an ethic of shared understanding of the universe” (99). Keywords: herzfeld; nation; state

• Arvidsson, Stefan. Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. by Carlson, Maria (2021) - Arvidsson’s summary of ideas and polemics dispels such assumptions and reveals the manner in which the Indo-European discourse was a construct, worked on by different ideologies over modern time and across European space. Arvidsson locates the Indo-European discourse within the history of national, religious, ideological, class, and political beliefs held by educated, middle-class, European males over the course of two centuries: “The epic about the Aryan has in many ways been an epic about bourgeois ideals, and it has also gone hand in hand with the ideological changes of this class” (318). Keywords: arvidsson; discourse; european; indo

• The Poetics of Folklore: Seminar in Memory of B. N. Putilov by Lobanov, M. (2021) - Microsoft Word - seefa2001.DOC 34 Conference Report The Poetics of Folklore: Seminar in Memory of B. N. Putilov A scholarly seminar entitled “The Poetics of Folklore” and dedicated to the memory of B. N. Putilov (1919-1998) was held from the first to the third of March in St. Petersburg. Putilov was attracted to the most acute problems in the study of Russian folklore, problems which many historians, philologists, and ethnographers sought to solve. Keywords: folklore; putilov; seminar

• Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia by Prestel, David (2014) - It is apposite to note that Bulgakov’s notion that in the mortal body of the saint, the seed of incorruptibility is already present but only apparent to the eyes of faith (34), supports Greene’s position that Orthodox believers in their veneration of holy relics were more theologically astute than is generally recognized. XVII Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia. Keywords: greene; relics; saints

• Folklorica 2011 by Kononenko, Natalie (2012) - The last two articles, Linda Ivanits’s examination of attitudes toward folklore among Russian intellectuals and Svitlana Krys’s study of the possible influence of folklore on literary works, are in the tradition of the examination of folklore in other intellectual spheres. More typical studies have tried to identify folklore elements in literary works. Keywords: editor; folklore; issue

• The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria by Boivin, Genia (2020) - Like many of Leland other works, The Hundred Riddles also includes Leland’s own engravings; 102 in total, including the title page. But overall, the book succeeded in sparking my interest in Charles Leland and left me hungry for more of his work. Keywords: leland; riddles

• Inside Cover by Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (2021) - Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, University of Kentucky Guest Co-Editor: Dorian Jurić, University of Ottawa Book Review Editor: Laura Olson Osterman, University of Colorado, Boulder Online Content Manager: Jon Giullian, University of Kansas Editorial Board Oleksandra Britsyna, Rylsky Folklore Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa Linda J. Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Klyaus, Institute of World Literature, Russian Federation Katia Mikhailova, Institute of Folklore, Bulgaria Faith Wigzell, SSEES-University College London Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent University, Belgium Publication supported by the University of Kentucky ISSN 1920-0234 SEEFA Executive Board President: Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University of Newfoundland Vice-President: Dorian Jurić, University of Ottawa Secretary-Treasurer: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University Board Members: Elena Boudovskaia, Georgetown University Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, University of Kentucky Webmaster: Keywords: ottawa; university

• Inside Cover by SEEFA (2022) - SEEFA Executive Board President: Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University of Newfoundland Vice-President: Dorian Jurić, University of Ottawa Secretary-Treasurer: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State At-Large Board Members: Elena Boudovskaia, Georgetown University Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, University of Kentucky Webmaster: Dorian Jurić, University of Ottawa FOLKLORICA Editor: Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, University of Kentucky Book Review Editor: Laura Olson Osterman, University of Colorado, Boulder Online Content Manager: Jon Giullian, University of Kansas Editorial Assistants: Isabella Palange, University of Wisconsin Johnna Warkentine, University of Kentucky Editorial Board Oleksandra Britsyna, Rylsky Folklore Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa Linda J. Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Klyaus, Institute of World Literature, Russian Federation Katia Mikhailova, Institute of Folklore, Bulgaria Faith Wigzell, SSEES-University College London Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent University, Belgium Publication supported by the University of Kentucky ISSN 1920-0234 Keywords: kentucky; university

• Feast as a Mirror of Social and Cultural Changes by Gabrielova, Amina (2022) - This collection includes ten case studies that explore the current state of traditional festivals in different countries. Although the volume would benefit from some English language editing, this is an informative and timely contribution to the field of festival studies that can be useful to both scholars and the general public. Keywords: changes; feasts; festivals; shows

• Inside Cover by SEEFA (2023) - SEEFA Executive Board President: Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University of Newfoundland Vice-President: Dorian Jurić, Indiana University Secretary-Treasurer: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University University Board Members: Elena Boudovskaia, Georgetown University Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University Webmaster: Dorian Jurić, Indiana University FOLKLORICA Editor: Benjamin Gatling, George Mason University Book Review Editor: Laura Olson Osterman, University of Colorado, Boulder Online Content Manager: Jon Giullian, University of Kansas Editorial Assistant: Ang DiNardo, George Mason University Editorial Board Oleksandra Britsyna, Rylsky Folklore Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Maria Carlson, University of Kansas Larisa Fialkova, University of Haifa Linda J. Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University Vladimir Klyaus, Institute of World Literature, Russian Federation Katia Mikhailova, Institute of Folklore, Bulgaria Faith Wigzell, SSEES-University College London Aleksey V. Yudin, Ghent University, Belgium ISSN 1920-0234 Keywords: mason; university

• Simona Bortiș-Schultz. To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women’s Work: the Visual Language of the Romanian Blouse. by LaVey, A.M. (2024) - Thus, the blouse becomes a textile symbol of cultural continuity amidst the dislocation of migration, contributing to the ongoing construction and adaptation of Romanian cultural identity. In the second section, “Sewn Codes,” Bortiș-Schultz delves into the iconographic visual signs embroidered onto Romanian blouses, which are like stamps on an “ethnographic passport” (62). Keywords: bortiș; schultz

• Frontmatter by none (2001) - SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 1 SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 1 SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 1 SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 1 FolkloricaV_1 1.pdf FolkloricaV_1 2.pdf FolkloricaV_1 3.pdf FolkloricaV_1 4.pdf FolkloricaV_1 5.pdf FolkloricaV_1 6.pdf FolkloricaV_1 7.pdf FolkloricaV_1 8.pdf FolkloricaV_1 9.pdf Keywords: folkloricav_1

• Dr. Svatava Pirkova Jakobson by none (2001) - SEEFA Journal 2000, Vol. V, No. 2 SEEFAV2F20001_7 SEEFAV2F20008_16 SEEFAV2F200017_24 SEEFAV2F200025_28 SEEFAV2F200029_36 SEEFAV2F200035_48 SEEFAV2F200051_61 SEEFAV2F200062_68 Keywords: seefav2f200051_61

• L. M. Ivleva. The Pretheatrical-Game Language of Russian Folklore: the Problem of Theory and Typology. St Petersburg: Dmitri Bulanin, 1998 by Zemtsovsky, Izaly (2021) - Thoroughly studying Russian folklore material, Ivleva theoreticalIy and practicalIy has founded a new scholarly discipline, which in principle goes beyond any ethnic framework, and which she has named ethno-drama study. [The Pretheatrical-game language of Russian folklore: the problem of theory and typology], Dmitrii Bulanin, SPb., 1998. Keywords: folklore; game; ivleva

• SEEFA Discussion Group by Tempest, Snejana (2021) - SEEF A DISCUSSION GROUP Snejana Tempest, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor I welcome all members of SEEF A to take part in a discussion group that has been organized and has the e-mail address: SEEF A@umich.edu. A Journal page 54 SEEFA Journal 1998, Vol. III Keywords: seef

• Report on the Balkan Summer Seminar, June 1999 by Beissinger, Margaret H. (2021) - Finally, 1he 1hird week included discussions on the Balkan agenda for the twenty-first century in terms of regional policy - treated by Bogdan SzaJKowski (University of Exeter, Great Britain) and Caterina Garsia Segura (pompeu Fabra University, Spain). 25 REPORTS Report on the Balkan Summer Seminar9 June 1999 Margaret B. Beissinger9 University of Wisconsin-Madison The International Summer School of the Institute for Sociological, Political, and Juridical Research of Saints Cyril and Methodius University (Skopje) took place June 7-26, 1999 in Obrid, Republic of Macedonia Organized by Jovan Donev (of the above institute), the seminar was titled The Bright Side of the Balkans: Mutuality in a Common Future. Keywords: balkans; university

• Prichitan’ia Severnogo kraia, sobrannye E. V. Barsovym [Laments of the Northern Region collected by E. V. Barsov]. Prepared by B. E. Chistova and K. V. Chistov. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1997. Literaturnye pamiatniki. 500 + 655 pp. by Bailey, James (2021) - Almost since the appearance of the first volume Barsov’s collection has been regarded as a fundamental source of information about Russian laments. The first (1872) contains funeral laments, the second recruit laments (1882), and the third (1885) wedding laments. Keywords: barsov; fedosova; laments

• William Hansen. Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature. by Kononenko, Natalie (2021) - As Ariadne�s thread led Theseus out of the labyrinth, so Hansen�s offers to lead us out of the potential trap of old conceptions of narrative. The Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index was developed to catalogue folktales and thus we associate the international plots that Hansen discusses with folktales in general, and fairy or magic tales in particular. Keywords: ariadne; hansen

• Joseph L. Conrad, 1933-2003 by Gribble, Charles E. (2021) - Microsoft Word - folk04se.doc 47 OBITUARIES Joseph L. Conrad, 1933-2003 Joseph L. Conrad, Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, was born on June 26, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, and passed away in Lawrence on December 21, 2003, surrounded by his family. Joseph was an Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas from 1956-59, and then an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Florida State University from 1959-62. Keywords: kansas; university

• Notes from the Workshop on Field Work in the Former USSR (AATSEEL Conference, 1997) by Kononenko, Natalie (1999) - It is therefore very difficult to collect Soviet data (unless it demonstrates some fault with the Soviet system), even though this is legitimate data too and needs to be collected ASAP. for someone other than the informant, a helpful colleague > providing work opportunities for colleagues or their students > pay for their trip, for equipment, for wanted books; buy needed supplies > help with publishing opportunities Practical issues to consider as you are planning: > food, lodging > daily life (like hygiene) > choose clothing from the practical point of view — washing and drying ib SEEFA Journal 1998, Vol. Keywords: data; folklore

• Recent Books: Romanian Folklore by Beissinger, Margaret H. (2021) - Over 900 political jokes (collected from January 1979 up through December 1989), including a foreword by the distinguished grandfather of Romanian folklore, Mihai Pop, and a conclusion by the author. A reprint of a classic work from 1976 which covers the basic premises and genres of Romanian oral literature; this edition is significantly revised, including the removal of several chapters and all excerpts from the writings of Nicolae Ceau^ecsu (the longstanding Romanian dictator, executed in December 1989). Keywords: bucharest; editura; folklore; reprint

• A New Reading of the Classics of Russian Folkloristics [Review of Toporkov, A. L., Teoriia mifa v russkoi filologicheskoi nauke XIX veka] by Ivanova, Tatyana G. (1999) - Buslaev's Research on Myth: From a Philosophy of Language to Comparative Ethnography: Myth and Slavic Mythology in the Creative Legacy of A. N. Afanas'ev; A. A. Potebnia: The Linguis­ tic Theory of Myth; A. N. Veselovskii on Myth: A Complex Program for Philological Investigations. In the introduction the author clearly states the subject of his research — not the mythological school in Russia, but the interpretation of mythology in Russian scholarship (p. 20). Keywords: afanas'ev; buslaev; monograph; toporkov

• Калужникова, Татьяна Ивановна. Традиционный русский музыкальный календарь Среднего Урала by Zemtsovsky, Izaly (2021) - Календарные обряды и фольклор, традиционно связываемые с запад­ ными и юго­западными русскими регионами, практически не были представлены этномузыкологами Урала. Наибо­ лее известные на Урале святочные, масленичные, троице­ семицкие обряды, хороводы и основной круг сопровожда­ ющих их песен восстановлены автором по воспоминаниям деревенских исполнителей и архивным материалам. Keywords: песен; среднего

• Baer, Elizabeth R. The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Burns, B. Stu (2014) - Baer explicitly places The Golem Redux in this intertextual paradigm, acknowledging that her study is a hypertext of scholarship by Gershom Scholem, Moshe Idel, and especially Arnold Goldsmith, whose monograph The Golem Remembered, 1901-1980 was the first scholarly treatment of golem literature in English. From Wiesel and Singer’s veiled parables of the Shoah (both simply titled The Golem) to Chabon’s smugglers secreting Rabbi Loew’s golem out of pre-Holocaust Europe in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Baer shows how these authors’ golem works challenge Theodor Adorno’s assertion that poetry in the wake of Auschwitz is barbaric. Keywords: baer; golem; loew; wiesel

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