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The Folklore Fellows' Network Bulletin no 54 (2020) is now out! Contents:

The Corona Cocoon (editorial)
Frog

Covid Conspiracies (article)
Timothy R. Tangherlini & Vwani Roychowdhury

Historical Oral Poems and Digital Humanities (article)
Kati Kallio & Eetu Mäkelä & Maciej Janicki

Second edition of Verzeichnis der altbömischen Exempel (book review)
Bengt af Klintberg

Folklore Fellows´Communications in 2020 ... See more

Contents. The Corona Cocoon Frog Covid Conspiracies Timothy R. Tangherlini & Vwani Roychowdhury Historical Oral Poems and Digital Humanities Kati Kallio & Eetu Mäkelä & Maciej Janicki Second edition of Verzeichnis der altbömischen Exempel Bengt af Klintberg Folklore Fellows´Communications in... ... See more

Now out: Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data, edited by Jonathan Roper. FFC 321.

Read the Preface and see who the contributors are at https://www.folklorefellows.fi/ffc-321/

Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data. Ed. Jonathan Roper. Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data. Ed. Jonathan Roper Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Folklore Fellows' Communications 321 Helsinki 2020 246 pp. ISBN 978-951-41-1157-0 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 28€ What does Elias... ... See more

Image: Photographed by Oksana Palikova during fieldwork for the Slovar’ Govorja Staraverov Estonii (‘The Dictionary of the Speech of Estonian Old Believers’), 2008.

Seasonal greeting: you will get "Representations of Fear" for 25€ until 4 January 2021! (Normally 38€.) Go get it.
https://www.tiedekirja.fi/english/representations-of-fear.html

his book deals with folk narratives expressing some of the basic fears of ancient Roman culture. These included, on the one hand, threats to the survival of the family, especially concerning children, pregnant women and to some extent also young men, and, ... See more

Now out: FFC 320

Camilla Asplund Ingemark & Dominic Ingemark: Representations of Fear. Verbalising Emotion in Ancient Roman Folk Narrative.

Representations of Fear. Verbalising Emotion in Ancient Roman Folk Narrative. Camilla Asplund Ingemark & Dominic Ingemark. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Folklore Fellows' Communications 320 Helsinki 2020 362 p. ISBN 978-951-41-1156-3 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 38€ This book deals with... ... See more

We are happy to announce the publication of Maxim Fomin's "Ludwig Mühlhausen, Séamus Ó Caiside and Scéal Rí na Gréige: The Tale of ´Three Golden Children´(ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal" (FFC 319). Read the Preface on-line, and buy the book at the Bookstore: Tiedekirja! ... See more

Ludwig Mülhausen, Séamus Ó Caiside and Scéal Rí na Gréige. The Tale of 'Three Golden Children' (ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal. Maxim Fomin. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Folklore Fellows' Communications 319 Helsinki 2020 234 pp. 978-951-41-1142-6 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 34€ On 25 Augus... ... See more

RESCHEDULED: Folklore Fellows' Summer School "The Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence"!

FFSS 2020 just became FFSS 2021 due to the pandemic Corona Virus outbreak of this spring. The dates at the Summer School site have been updated accordingly, and the participants have been or will be notified shortly of the new arrangements.

We wish you all the very best of health! ... See more

The 10th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School, ”The violence of traditions and the traditions of violence”, will be hosted by the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), in Joensuu, Finland, on 14–20 June 2021. ... See more

What a great idea! Nurture magic and sanity, folks, while keeping physical distance and hand washing.

"This is a massive list of free and low-cost resources (magazines, stories, music, museum tours, lessons, and more) and practical ideas for stuff to do or make from the comfort of your Tower while you’re practicing social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic." ... See more

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