Aarne, Antti, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 31, 173

Abrahams, Roger, 68

Abyssinia, 208, 209

Achilles, 200

Adams, Henry, 232

Adams, John, 236

Adams, Robert, 296

Aesop, 111, 124

Afanasiev, Alexander Nikolaievich, 29

Africa, 31, 104, 111, 214, 215, 219, 220

Agassiz, Louis, 282

Alabama, 37, 39, 69, 91

Alaska, 196, 205

Alger, Horatio, 97

Allen, H. C., 233

Alsace-Lorraine, 104

American Folklore Society, 6, 11, 13, 23, 202, 243, 244, 245, 246, 249, 297

American Historical Association, 226, 242, 243, 244. 245

American Revolution, 89, 180, 225, 228, 229, 234, 235, 236, 237

American Samoa, 196

Anderson, Robert, 250

Anderson, Walter, 211

Andersson, Theodore M., 211, 212, 213

Anecdotes: 28, 82, 101, 104, 109, 115-116, 154; of absentmindedness, 167-168; of the Battle of Culloden, 88, 218; classification of, 83; of degeneracy, 167; of general eccentricity, 168-169; humorous, 107; of ignorance, 165-167; legendary, 82; local, 105; of local characters, 97, 163-169; personal experience, 110, 116-117; Swedish immigrant, 93,96; of stinginess, 163-164; of stubbornness, 164; of ugliness, 165-166; urban Negro, 66

Animal tales, 104, 107, 111, 154

Anthropology, 4, 5, 13, 25, 67, 100, 148, 149

Antigone, 153

Apollo, 152

Appalachian Mountains, 81, 160

Argentina, 31

Arizona, 61, 204

Arkansas, 43, 71, 91

Asadowsky, Mark, 100

Asbjørnsen, P. C. 29

Asia, 31, 201

Atlantis, 8, 221, 224n

Australia, 31

Baetke, Walter, 211

Bailyn, Bernard, 231, 234

Baker, Ronald M., 304

Baldwin, J. G., 124

Ball, John, 101

Ballads: 4, 15, 17, 19, 25, 26, 85, 194, 200; archiving of, 21; of the Battle of Culloden, 88; Black American, 108; characteristics of, 80; indexing of, 20; Serbian, 50; “Sir Patrick Spens,” 80; “Young Hunting,” 80; “The Four Marys,” 80; See also Byliny

Balys, Jonas, 19

Barney Beal, folk hero, 109-110, 161-162, 172, 194

Barrett, W. H., oral narrator, 14, 82-83, 220

Bascom, William, 18

Baughman, Ernest W., 19, 24, 81, 82

Beard, Charles, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 238

Becker, Carl, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 238, 242-243

Beckwith, Martha Warren, 104

Belgium, 31

Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 233

Benedict, Ruth, 13

Benfey, Theodor, 29

Bernera, Laird of, 219

Bernstein, Barton J., 236, 237

Besant, Walter, 267

Billington, Ray Allen, 188, 231, 234

Billy the Kid, 15, 238

Biloxi Indians, 190

Bissell, Richard P., 250

Bjaai, Hallvor, 211

Black American culture: 247, 280; American history and, 69, 181, 239, 240, 241; as academie subject, 247; folklore studies and, 297; food in, 40, 67, 73; Gary, Indiana and, 34-35, 36, 37-47, 66-78; “man of words” in, 45, 68; ministers, as social reformers in, 45; sacrificial role of, 67; voodoo in, 264

Black American folklore: 7, 27, 28, 81, 97, 102, 103; in Arkansas, 91-93; civil rights stories in, 39, 66; folktales in, 38-39, 83, 105, 264; in Gary, Indiana, 37-47; heroes of, 108; Irish stereotype in, 109; legends in, 191, 195; proverbs in, 38; repertoire of protest tales in, 83; slave legends in, 204; urban environment and, 66; white tradition and, 90-93

Blair, Walter, 298-299

Blason Populaire, 28, 74

Blegen, Carl, 216

Blegen, Theodore, 28, 242

Boas, Franz, 4, 13, 25, 100

Boatright, Mody C., 73

Bødker, Laurits, 18

Boggs, Ralph Steele, 23

Bohannan, Paul, 219

Boilès, Charles, 296

Bolte, Johannes, 21, 30

Bonnie Prince Charlie, 85, 88, 218

Boorstin, Daniel J., 228, 229, 233

Boratav, Pertev, 20

Borden, Morton, 229

Borrow, George, 270

Bosnia, 49, 54

Botkin, Benjamin A., 156

Bowra, C. M., 100

Bradford, William, 230

Brando, Marlon, 155, 156

Breitman, Hans. See Leland, Charles Godfrey

Br’er Rabbit, 83, 97, 111

Brewster, Paul, 21

British Guiana, 68, 77

Brogan, Denis, 232

Bronson, Bertrand, 4

Brown, Frank C., 14, 192

Brown, Robert E., 227, 228, 229, 234, 235

Browne, Thomas, 28

Browning, Robert, 267

Bryan, William Lowe, 249

Buchanan, James, 122

Buck, Peter H., 205, 206, 207

Burton, Sir Richard, 270

Byliny, 99, 201, 202

California, 171, 189, 217, 288

Campbell, General John, 218

Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, 29, 33, 34, 81, 100, 218

Campbell, John, of Mamore, 85-87, 88-89

Campbell, John Lome, 14, 34

Campbell, Joseph, 30, 153, 154, 157n

Canada, 170

Canna, Isle of, 34

Cante-fable, 104, 154

Cape Ann, 186

Cape Cod, 184

Captain Kidd, 169, 188, 192

Carlyle, Thomas, 270

Carmichael, Alexander, 33-34, 289

Carnegie, Andrew, 97

Chadwick, Hector M. and Nora K., 26, 154-155, 201

Chateaubriand, François, 182

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 26

Chetniks, in Serbian tradition, 48, 49, 52, 68

Chicago, 42, 55, 165, 233, 260

Child, Francis James, 4, 20, 21, 25, 26, 282

China, 111

Choctaw Indians, 190

Christ: 96; Christ figure, 92

Christiansen, Reidar Th., 19, 20, 22, 49, 194

Churchill, Winston, 49

Cinderella, 105, 149, 150

Civil War, 180, 187, 194, 218, 235, 237

Clark, Thomas D., 249-250

Clark, William, 203

Clodd, Edward, 29, 148, 149

Coeur d’Alene Indians, 100

Colorado, 166, 179, 182, 183, 184, 187

Commager, Henry Steele, 234

Conant, James B., 255

Connecticut, 168, 185

Cook, Captain John, 215

Cotton, John, 231

Cox, George, 149, 150, 152

Cox, Marian Roalfe, 150

Crane, Bathsheba H., 186

Crane, Thomas F., 30

Creed, Robert, 26

Creon, 153

Croatian-American culture: Catholic Church and, 71; Gary, Indiana and, 35, 54-56; music in, 72

Crockett, David. See Davy Crockett

Croker, Thomas Crofton, 277

Cromwell, Oliver, 215

Cronus, 148, 151

Crook, General George, 218

Cross, Tom Peete, 19

Crow, Jim, 180

Cuchulainn, Celtic folk hero, 200, 290

Culloden, Battle of, 85, 218

Cunliffe, Marcus, 232

Cunnison, Ian, 219

Curti, Merle, 227

Curtin, Jeremiah, 29, 282-287, 291-292

Curwen, Henry Darcy, 250

Cushing, Frank, 204

Dalmatia, 54

Darwin, Charles, 148

David, and Goliath, 96, 218

Davis, Allen F., 229

Davis, Jefferson, 124

Davy Crockett, 93, 97, 106, 120, 121, 154, 155, 174

Dean, James, 155, 156

Dégh, Linda, 35, 38, 245

Delargy, James H., 99, 285

Dempsey, David, 98n

Denmark, 31

Denny, Nicholas B., 277

Dewar, John, 85, 98n

Dialect stories: 82, 83, 154; Danish, 106; Finnish, 110; French, 110; in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 105-106, 114-115

Disney, Walt, 155, 172

Dixon, Roland B., 202, 204

Doerpfeld, Wilhelm, 216

Dominican Republic, 62

Donald, David, 234

Donaldson, Thomas C., 204

Dorson, Richard M.: fieldwork of, 35-37, 174, 194, 217; as folk informant, 249, 252-254, 256; folk history theory of, 239-249; America Begins, 247; American Folklore and the Historian, 298; America Rebels, 247; Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers, 171; Folk Legends of Japan, 194; Jonathan Draws the Long Bow, 161, 247; Negro Folktales in Michigan, 20, 125, 126

Douglas, Stephen A., 122, 123

Drummond, William Henry, 115

Dundes, Alan, 7, 18, 25, 98n, 296

East Chicago, Indiana, 34-78 passim

Eberhard, Wolfram, 20

Eddy, Mary Baker, 289

Edison, Thomas Alva, in Mexican tradition, 59

Edward VI, King of England, 215

Edwards, Jonathan, 230, 231

Eisenstadt, A. S., 231, 238

Eliot, Charles W., 283

Eliot, George, 270, 287

Elkins, Stanley, 239

Emerson, Ralph W., 27

England, 19, 25, 31, 80, 81, 82, 220, 260-294 passim

Epics: 4, 200, 201; Arabic, 212; classical, 93; heroic, 85; Homeric, 5, 26; literary, 213; of single combats, 218; Yugoslav, 5, 26

Ethnic cuisine, 40, 57, 67, 72, 73

Ethnic culture: Croatian, in Gary, Indiana, 54-56; folklore studies and, 297; in Gary, Indiana, 37, 65-78; Greek, in Gary, Indiana, 56-58; literary stereotypes of, 261; Mexican, in Gary, Indiana, 59-62; Old World legends and, 195; Puerto Rican, in Gary, Indiana, 62-65; Serbian, in Gary, Indiana, 47-54

Ethnic folklore: 25, 101; Danish-American, 106; French-Canadian, 102, 104; German-American, 106; immigrant, 93-96, 105; Irish-American, 282, 289; legends in, 195; Polish-American, 102, 103, 104, 108, 112-113, 130-140; Swedish-American, 93-96, 102, 104, 108, 113-114. See also Dialect stories

Euhemerism, 154, 190, 199

Evans, Estyn, 8

Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling, 287-292

Evil eye, 56, 148

Exempla, 19

Fabliaux, 19

Fairies, 277-278, 280, 281, 285, 288, 289

Fairy tales. See Märchen

Fakelore, 156

Fenton, Alexander, 29

Ferenczi, László, 152

Fieldwork in folklore, 9, 12-14, 27, 100-102, 154, 262, 263, 272, 278, 284-285, 288-289, 292

Fife, Austin and Alta, 13

Finland, 23, 31

Fischer, David Hackett, 235, 236

Fiske, John, 286, 287

Fitzgerald, Earl Garret, 290

Florence, Italy, 263, 265

Florida, 57, 58, 90, 96, 189

Folk art, 28-29

Folk beliefs, 16, 21, 29, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64-65, 107, 264, 288. See also Evil eye, Susto, Voodoo

Folk church, Negro, 37, 42, 44

Folf dance: Mexican, 59-60; Serbian, 50, 60

Folk drama, 6

Folk esthetic, contrasted with art esthetic, 101-102

Folk healing, 62, 162

Folk history: 107; of academe, 250-256; of baseball, 248; Dorson’s theory of, 243-246, 257; of immigrants, 56; of tennis, 256-257

Folklife, 7, 18, 20, 28, 29, 266

Folklore: of academe, 251-256; American civilization and, 101; Anglo-American, 85, 282; archiving of, 21-22; audience and, 102; classification of, 101; definitions of, 17-18; Irish, 284-286; mass media and, 101, 155-156; occupational, 26, 73, 101, 116, 121, 122; printed sources and, 15-17, 84, 160, 161

Folk-lore, 213, 272

Folklore genres. See Anecdotes; Ballads; Dialect stories; Folk beliefs; Folk dance; Folklife; Folk music; Folksongs; Jokes; Legends; Myths; Oral narratives; Sagas; Tall tales

Folklore Institute, Indiana University, 3, 4, 6, 7, 18, 31, 297

Folk-Lore Society, 12, 13, 16, 20-21, 29, 150, 215, 260, 268, 272

Folk-Lore Society of Hungary, 267-268

Folklore studies: in American universities, 299-304; anthropology and, 4, 13, 25, 147, 148, 154; art and, 6, 266; atlases and, 14; bibliographic tools of, 23-24; British, 10, 260-294 passim; Celtic, 290; and comparative mythology, 149-150; communism and, 17; geography and, 8; graduate degrees in, 3, 11, 29, 295, 300, 303; history and, 4, 6, 10, 27, 28, 97, 154-155, 199-224, 239. 241; history of, 30; international relations in, 30-31, 260-294; Irish, 283-285; literature and, 4, 5, 25, 97, 102, 115, 119, 186-187, 212; mass communications and, 7; minority groups and, 297; music and, 5; philology and, 149; political science and, 7; psychology and, 7; religion and, 6, 25; structural linguistics and, 7; theater and, 6

Folklore theory: 290-291; and American legend categories, 194-196; anthropological school of, 147-149, 154; applied, 297; bookprose, of sagas, 213; British, 10, 99-100, 154; Curtin and, 286-287; and “disease of language,” 149; epic laws and, 209; and euhemerism, 154, 190, 199; and fieldwork, 154-155; Finnish, 19, 154; freeprose, of sagas, 210-212; functional approach to, 25; gesunkenes Kulturgut, 19; myth and, 147-158; psychological, 288-289; and psychology, 150-153, 154, 158n; Russian, 99; and solar mythology, 149-150; sources and, 99; structural approach to, 25; of survivals, 147-148, 264, 277; terminology in, 17-19

Folk museums, in United States, 28-29

Folk music: Croatian, 55, 66, 72; Mexican, 59, 66; Negro spirituals, 43, 66; Puerto Rican, 26, 63; Serbian, 48, 50, 54, 66

Folk narrative. See Oral narratives

Folk religion, 25, 42, 44. See also Spiritualism

Folksongs: 201; English, 279; Maori, 206; Polish, 66; Serbian, 70

Folktales: 4, 7, 18; African, 104, 111; animal, 82, 83, 104, 107, 154; Anglo-American, 26, 81, 97; Appalachian, 81, 97; archiving of, 21-22; Armenian, 66; Black American, 27, 37, 38-39, 81, 83, 105, 107, 111, 112, 125-129. 264; British, 19, 82, 105; Chinese, 111; collecting, 83-84; comparative study of, 150; European, 23, 25, 104, 111; French-Canadian, 219; Finnish-American, 219; Greek, 58, 66; immigrant, 105; indexes of, 19, 20-21; Indonesian, 111; informant data for, 99; Irish, 29-30, 33, 81, 85-88, 105, 219, 282; legendary, 82; literary texts of, 84; Mexican cuentos, 61; North American Indian, 23, 25, 82, 111, 160, 178; Ozark, 82, 84, 160; performance style of, 83; Polish-American, 130-140; printed sources and, 84; protest, 82, 83, 107; Scottish, 33-34, 81, 93, 105; Slavic, 29-30; stylistics of American, 117-118; Turkish, 20; written literature and themes of, 97. See also Anecdotes; Cantefable; Legends: Märchen; Oral narratives

Folktales of the World series, 19, 31

Fontenrose, Joseph, 5

Ford, Henry T., 241

Ford, Ira, 187

Fortes, Meyer, 219

France, 31

Franklin, Benjamin, 97

Frantzis, George Th., 58

Frazer, James G., 25

Freud, Sigmund, 7, 150-151, 152, 153, 289

Fromm, Eric, 151, 152, 153

Fry, Gladys, 28, 195, 241

Gabriel, Ralph Henry, 227, 232

Gaea, 148

Gaidoz, Henri, 29

Gard, Robert, 6

Gardner, Emelyn E., 193

Garraty, John A., 233, 238, 239

Gary, Indiana, 34-78 passim

Gay, Peter, 230, 231

Gennep, Arnold van, 208

Genovese, Eugene, 236

George I, King of England, 85, 88, 89, 218

George III, King of England, 89

Georgia, 27, 189

Germany, 31

Gesunkenes Kulturgut, 19

Ghana, 31

Ghost stories, 82, 154

Gil’ferding, A. F., 99

Glassie, Henry, 8, 296

Goddard, P. E., 202

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 97

Goldenweiser, A. A., 204

Goldstein, Kenneth, 14

Goldwater, Senator Barry, 245

Goldziher, Ignac, 152

Gomme, Alice B., 21

Gomme, George Laurence, 12, 28, 29, 148, 200, 201, 264

Gorman, Larry, oral bard, 26, 27

Graves, Robert, 20

Great Britain, 21, 122, 260-294 passim

Greece, 31, 83, 148

Greek-American culture: food in, 57, 67; Gary, Indiana and, 35, 37, 56-58, 69; material culture in, 70; saints in, 162; in Tarpon Springs, Florida, 57, 58, 69

Greek-American folklore, 65, 66

Greene, Jack P., 238

Gregory, Dick, 237, 238

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 5, 12, 21, 29, 30, 81, 84, 99, 105, 112, 153, 159, 280

Groome, F. Hindes, 265, 268, 272, 273

Guômundr inn ríki, Icelandic saga villain, 212

Gypsy culture: in England, 262, 263, 264, 265, 269, 270, 272, 273; in Europe, 30; Indian origin of, 265

Gypsy-Lore Society, 267, 268, 270

Hallberg, Peter, 211, 212-213

Halpert, Herbert, 12, 23, 24

Hammond, Bray, 229

Hand, Wayland D., 5, 12, 21, 301

Handlin, Oscar, 233, 235, 236

Hänsel and Gretel, 96, 149

Harding, Vincent, 239

Harrington, Michael, 229

Harris, Joel Chandler, 27, 111

Hart, William S., 53

Harte, Bret, 261

Hartland, Edwin Sidney, 17, 18, 29, 100, 148, 213, 214, 215, 277

Hatcher, Richard G., 34, 38, 45, 46, 47, 75

Hawaii, 196, 206, 208

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 186

Hay, John, 120

Hays, Samuel, 238, 239, 240

Haywood, Charles, 24

Hazard, “Shepherd” Tom, 16, 122, 160, 164, 167

Hebrides, 33, 34

Heine, Heinrich, 261

Henry, O. 96, 114

Hera, 96

Herakles, 149

Hercules, 96

Herodotus, 27

Heroes: ballad, 194-195; biographical pattern of, 30; folk-epic, 155; of folk legends, 172; Icelandic saga, 211, 212, 213; of literary legends, 172; Märchen, 149; mass media, 155-156, 158n; mythical, 149, 151, 205-208; Norwegian, 211; Polynesian, 207, 208; of popular legends, 172; Russian, 202; Serbian, 202; strong man legendary, 161-162, 194; as underdogs, 97; youth-cult, 155-156

Heroic Age, 106, 155, 201

Herskovits, Melville, 4, 13, 25, 154

Higham, John, 195, 225, 226, 231

Hildburgh, W. L., 260

Historical theory: of Dorson, 239-247, 257; of other American historians, 225-239. See also Euhemerism

Historic-geographic method. See Finnish method

History: African, 213, 214, 219-220; American, and ethnic cultures, 67; American, and Polish colonists, 69; American, and tall tales, 172-173; of baseball, 248; biblical flood and, 216; Black American, 69, 181, 239; Cornish, 215; fieldwork and, 27; and legends, 170; Icelandic sagas as, 208-213; local, 34, 81, 194, 218; North American Indian tradition ana, 202-205; oral, 67, 88, 89, 213, 214, 241, 242; personal, 67; Polynesian tradition and, 205-208; Scottish, 34, 81, 88, 218; Trojan War and, 216. See also Folk history; Folklore studies and history

Hoffman, Daniel G., 27

Hofstadter, Richard, 154, 226, 227, 228, 231, 232, 233, 234

Homer, 26

Hoodoo, 107, 187

Hoogasian-Villa, Susie, 66

Hooper, Johnson Jones, 124, 164-165

Hope, Bob, 20

Hovden, Svein, oral narrator, 210, 211

Howell, George, 173

Huckleberry Finn, 97

Hultkrantz, Åke, 18

Hungary, 31, 35

Hyatt, Harry M., 196, 247

Hyde, Douglas, 282, 288, 289

Hymes, Dell, 7

Iceland, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213

Illinois, 35, 49, 55, 118, 119, 122

Immigrant folklore, 7, 105, 162. See also Ethnic folklore

India, 19, 24, 111, 114, 265

Indiana, 34, 37, 45, 90, 118, 119, 195, 282

Indians. See North American Indian culture Indonesia, 111

Ireland, 8, 13, 19, 22, 81, 105, 282, 284, 285, 286

Irving, Washington, 27, 186, 280

Italian-American culture: Chicago, 233; Gary, Indiana, 35; saints in, 162

Ives, Edward, 27

Jackson, Bruce, 297

Jackson, F. Brannam, 42

Jackson, Kenneth H., 18

Jacobs, Melville, 13

Jamaica, 104

James, Henry, 27

James, Thelma, 245

James, William, 288, 289

Jansen, William Hugh, 101

Japan, 31, 160, 168, 194

Jaramillo, Pedro, 162

Jefferson, Thomas, 204, 229, 230, 280

Jensen, Merrill, 229

Jocasta, 152

John Darling, folk hero, 194

John Henry, 194

Johnny Appleseed, 162, 163, 172

Johnson, Aili, 219

Jokes, 65, 66, 82, 83, 101, 108, 109, 110, 118, 154. See also Dialect stories

Jolles, André, 19

Jones, Ernest, 153

Jones, Prophet Edmund, 277

Josephson, Matthew, 231

Journal of American Folklore, 6, 9, 216, 244

Journal of the Folklore Institute, 8, 98n

Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society, 267, 268, 270

Jung, Carl, 7, 151, 152, 153

Kafka, Franz, 97

Keightley, Thomas, 277

Keil, Charles, 67, 68

Kentucky, 8, 28, 35, 103, 109, 118, 119, 120, 124, 170, 193, 195, 204, 241

Kerényi, Karl, 152, 153, 157n

Kerr, Orpheus C., 119

Kiev, 202

King Arthur, 149, 200, 290

King, Martin Luther, 45

Kirkland, Edwin C., 24

Kittredge, George Lyman, 4, 23, 26

Kniffen, Fred, 8

Knut Skraddar, Icelandic saga hero, 209, 210, 211

Koch, Frederick, 6

Kolmodin, Johannes, 208

Kostich, Lazo, 69

Krohn, Kaarle, 31

Kuhn, Adalbert, 152

Kupe, Maori legendary hero, 206, 207

Lach-Szyrma, W. S., 215

Laguna, Frederica de, 205

Lama Dawa-Samdup, 291

Lamar, Howard, 232

Lamon, Ward Hill, 123

Lancashire, 210

Lang, Andrew, 12, 13, 29, 30, 147-148, 150, 153, 156, 274, 288, 289

Lasch, Christopher, 236

Laufer, B., 202

Laws, G. Malcolm, 20, 21, 24

Leach, Douglas E., 242

Leach, MacEdward, 12, 246

Lebowitz, Michael, 237

Lee, Hector, 217

“Leeds Devil, The,” 185

Legends: 10, 16, 17, 154; African influence on American Indian, 204; American, discussed, 172, 194-196; and American geography, 178-180, 196; and American history, 161, 170-171, 196; anecdotal, 82, 161; buried treasure, 169, 181, 188, 192, 210; characteristics of, 82; definitions of, 159; of events, discussed, 170-172; hero, 106, 108, 120-121, 161, 200; historical, 52, 88, 89, 180-181, 217, 218; indexing of, 20; Japanese, 194; literary, discussed, 172; local, 28, 82, 108, 109, 160; marine, 105; Mexican-American, 75-76; modern, 52, 75, 82, 171, 192, 195; Norwegian, 20, 194; North American Indian, 30, 189-190, 194; personal, 82, 161-169, 194, 195; of places, 169-170, 194; Polynesian, 207; popular, discussed, 172; publishing standards for, 196; regional collecting fo 195-196; saints’, 52, 85, 161, 162, 194; supernatural, 109, 169, 183, 282; Tiv, 220; Welsh, 275-276

Leif the Lucky, 200

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 30, 261-275, 291-292

Lemhi Shoshoni Indians, 203

Lemisch, Jesse, 236

Levenson, J. C., 232

Lewis, Meriwether, 203

Liestøl, Knut, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213

Lincoln, Abraham: 42, 97, 261; folk background of, 118-119; as folk narrator, 119-124

Lindsay, Vachel, 172

List, George, 5, 22

Lithuanians, in Gary, Indiana, 55

Logan, Olive, 276

Lomax, Alan, 244

London, Jack, 14

Long, Huey, 241

Longfellow, Henry W., 27, 186, 282

Lönnröt, Elias, 26

Lord, Albert, 5, 18, 26, 245

Louisiana, 191

Lovers’ Leap, 169, 180, 191

Lowell, James Russell, 261, 282

Lowie, Robert, 202, 203, 204, 205, 216

Lucian, 148

Luomala, Katharine, 207, 245

Luthi, Max, 96, 97

Lynd, Staughton, 236, 237, 244, 246

Lytton, Lord Bulwer, 270

Macaulay, Thomas B., 210

MacDougall, James, 287

Maclnnes, John, 34, 77

Maclean, Calum, 219

Maclean, Hector, 85

MacLellan, Angus, oral narrator, 14, 219

MacRitchie, David, 215, 267, 268, 274, 290

Mafia, 195

Maine, 26, 102, 103, 105, 109, 110, 122, 161, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, 185, 190, 219, 262

Mann, Thomas, 97

Maori, oral narratives of, 206, 207

Maranda, Elli Köngäs, 7

Märchen: 17, 18, 19, 30, 85, 101, 105, 108, 112, 148, 154, 288; conventions of, 113; esthetics of, 81; Irish, 285; legends contrasted with, 159; performance of, 118; solar theory of, 149-150; structure of, 81; as truncated myths, 152

Marett, Robert Ranulph, 289

Mark Twain, 27, 120, 269

Marko Kraljevich, Serbian folk hero, 50, 202

Marx, Karl, 236

Maryland, 187

Massachusetts, 162, 166, 184, 187, 234

Masterson, lames, 15

Mather, Cotton, 169, 185, 186, 230, 231

Mathews, Joseph, 240

Mathews, Mitford, 189

Matthiessen, Francis O., 84

Maui, Polynesian hero, 208

McCarthy, Joe, 237

McDonald, Forrest, 232, 234

McLuhan, Marshall, 155

Mechanical Bride, The, 155

Meine, Franklin J., 84, 299

Melville, Herman, 27, 84

Memorat, 19, 82

Merrimac Indians, 185

Mesopotamia, 216

Mexican-American culture: food in, 59, 67, 72, 73; in Gary, Indiana, 35, 40, 59-61; history and, 72; legends in, 75-76, 162; national holidays and, 66-67; and Puerto Ricans, 61-62, 72-73; saints in, 162

Mexico, 59, 60, 61, 67, 210

Michigan, 73, 93, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 122, 168, 171, 187, 189, 217, 219

Micmac Indians, 269

Mihajlovich, Draža, 49, 70

Mike Fink, frontier hero, 121, 172, 299

Miller, John C., 229

Miller, Perry, 227, 233, 235-236

Miloš Obilich, Serbian folk hero, 49

Minnesota, 93, 104, 168

Mintz, Jerome, 25, 245

Mississippi, 40, 66, 90, 91, 103, 107, 120, 126, 178, 190

Missouri, 103, 108, 187

Mix, Tom, 53

Moe, Moltke, 29

Moll Pitcher, 186

Montcalm, General Louis, 190

Montell, Lynwood, 241, 243, 245

Montenegro, 51, 52

Moqui-Pueblo Indians, 204

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 27, 227, 236

Mormons, 60, 179

Morse, Senator Wayne, 244

Morton, Thomas, 185

Motifs: discussed, 18, 19-20; D1766.1, “Magic fountain produced by prayer,” 193; F638.3, “Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before,” 114: H1561.2, “Single combat to prove valor,” 98n; J1172.3, “Ungrateful animal returned to captivity,” 111

Moulton, Jonathan, 185

Müller, Max, 149, 150, 156n, 286, 287

Mulloy, Gardner, 256

Murray, Henry A., 9

Myres, John, 215

Myth: anthropological analysis of, 154; psychological analysis of, 151-153, 154; theories of, 147-158, 286-287; usage of term, 154

Myths: 10, 17, 101; American Indian, 160; Aryan, 149, 286; Gaelic, 286; Greek, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153. 154; Maori, 148; Polynesian, 205-208; Vedic Sanskrit, 149, 150

Nasby, Petroleum V., 119

Nastich, Bishop Varnava, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 70

Naumann, Hans, 19

Nebraska, 187

Neely, Charles, 193, 194

Negro folklore. See Black American culture; Black American folklore

Nelli, Humbert S., 233

Nevins, Allan, 226, 231, 238, 239, 241

New England, 163, 169, 183, 230, 231, 242, 281

Newfoundland, 23

New Hampshire, 185, 186, 191

New Jersey, 109, 168, 185, 188, 192, 288

New Mexico, 162, 204

New York, 28, 29, 187

New York City, 6, 35, 56, 63, 64, 84

New York Times, 195

New Zealand, 148, 205

Nez Perce Indians, 203

Nicosia, John B., 35, 64

Nigeria, 31, 219

Nisbet, Robert, 295

Noah, 216

Noble, David W., 230

Nordal, Sigurdur, 211, 213

North American Indian culture: history of, 202-205; oral narratives in, 23, 25, 82, 111, 160, 178, 194

North American Indians, in white tradition, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 191

North Carolina, 6, 14, 168, 169, 187

North Uist, 33, 34, 77

Norway, 210

Novellas, 108

Nutt, Alfred, 29, 199, 214, 215, 216, 275, 290

Oceania, 31, 201

Odysseus, 96

Oedipus, 149, 150, 152, 153

Ófeigr, Icelandic saga hero, 212

Ohio, 23, 28, 53, 122, 180, 187, 282

Ohmann, Richard M., 9

Oikotype, 18

Ojibwa Indians, 100, 189

Old Marster and John, 37, 38, 97, 107, 111-112

Olrik, Axel, 26, 84, 95, 100, 209

Opie, Peter and Iona, 20

Oral narratives: African, 213, 214; Anglo-American forms of, 82; autobiographical, 113; characteristics of, 117-118; English historical, 14, 82-83, 220; epic laws of, 26, 84, 93, 95, 100, 118, 209; esthetics of, 80-98; historical validity of, 199-224; of Abraham Lincoln, 118-124; of local characters, 115-116; North American Indian, 202-205; personal experience, 106; Polynesian, 205-208; and traditions of single combats, 85-90; Scottish, 96; style of Icelandic sagas and, 208; stylistic and compositional elements of, 96-97, 100-102; urban American, 89-93

Oral narrators: W. H. Barrett, 14, 82-83, 220; Svein Hovden, 210, 211; Angus MacLellan, 14, 219; Frau Viehmannin, 12

Oregon, 181

Osage Indians, 240

O’Sullivan, Sean, 19, 22

Ovid, 148

Owen, Mary Alicia, 264, 267, 273

Ozarks, 160, 187

Page, D. H., 216

Page, Thomas Nelson, 191

Pakistan, 31

Paredes, Américo, 9

Parnell, Charles, 290

Parrington, Vernon Louis, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 235, 238

Parry, Milman, 5, 26

Passamaquoddy Indians, 262, 269

Paul Bunyan, 16, 154, 155, 156, 158n, 174

Pausanias, 148

Pavelich, Ante, 48, 50

Pawlowska, Harriet M., 66

Payn, James, 187

Pecos Bill, 174

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 262

Pennsylvania, 44, 106, 116, 181, 192

Penobscot Indians, 262, 269

Pericles, 83

Perseus, 148, 149

Persia, 170

Peru, 210

Piddington, Ralph, 206, 207, 214

Plato, 221

Poe, Edgar Allan, 186

Poland, 31

Polish-American culture: and American history, 69; in Gary, Indiana, 35, 45-47, 69, 76; folklore in, 66, 108, 112-113, 130-140

Polívka, Georg, 21, 30

Polo, Marco, 172

Polynesia: oral narratives of, 205-208; history in, 215

Polyphemus, 96

Porter, Enid, 14

Porter, Horace, 120, 124

Portugal, 31

Potawatomi Indians, 100

Potter, David, 229, 232, 233, 235, 239

Pound, Louise, 187

Powell, York, 215, 272

Prescott, William H., 210

Presley, Elvis, 155, 156

Puerto Rican culture: food in, 62, 67, 73; in Gary, Indiana, 35, 45, 62-65; and Mexican culture, 61, 62, 72-73

Puerto Rico, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 196

Puritanism, 225, 231, 235

Quebec, 93, 104, 190

Radich, Stepan, 54, 55

Radin, Paul, 153

Raglan, Lord Fitzroy Richard Somerset, 30, 200, 201, 216

Ralston, William R. S., 287

Randolph, Vance, 13, 23, 82, 84, 160, 187, 193

Rank, Otto, 30, 151

Ray, Gordon, 297

Redfield, Robert, 25

Reichard, Gladys A., 100

Rhode Island, 16, 122, 160, 161, 167

Rhys, John, 273, 274, 275, 289

Ridgeway, William, 200

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 97

Rip Van Winkle, 186, 280

Roberts, Leonard, 193

Roberts, Warren, 19

Robin Hood, 200

Robinson, Rowland, 27, 123

Rogers, J. A., 44

Rogers, Ransford, 192

Róheim, Géza, 152

Romances, 4, 19, 26, 82, 93, 290

Romanian-American culture, 56, 67, 73

Rome, Italy, 55

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 49, 230, 233, 237

Roosevelt, Theodore, 282

Rosenberg, Bruce, 26

Rossini, Conti, 209

Rossiter, Clinton, 229

Rourke, Constance, 27

Rowson, Susannah, 182, 186

Russell, Albert (Reb), 248

Russia, 99

Ruth, Babe, 248

Sagamen: 106; as historians, 210, 220; Icelandic, 210

Sagas: 109, 148, 200, 201; autobiographical, 113; heroic, 101, 154, 155; Icelandic, 83, 208-213; performance of, 118; personal, 67, 106

Sagen, 85, 159, 194. See also Legends

Saint Anthony, 162

Saint Aspenquid, 185

Saint Basil, 52

Saint Haralampos, 162

Saint Nicholas, 57, 58

Saint Ninias, 215

Samoa, American, 31

Samson, 149

Sandburg, Carl, 118, 120, 123, 172

Saveth, Edward N., 231

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 226, 229, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238

Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr., 229, 232, 242

Schliemann, Heinrich, 216

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 27

Scotland, 13, 31, 80, 81, 105

Sebeok, Thomas A., 7, 9

Sébillot, Paul, 29

Seeger, Pete, 244

Senegal, 214

Serbia, 71

Serbian-American culture: calendar feast days and, 66; folksongs in, 70; in Gary, Indiana, 35, 37, 47-54, 55, 56, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74; and the Orthodox Church, 71; tenacity of tradition in, 71-72

Seward, W. H., 124

Seymour, Harold, 248

Shakespeare, William, 26, 97

Shaw, Margaret Fay, 34

Shepherd, Leslie, 291

Siegfried, 200

Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 283

Sikes, William Wirt, 275-282, 291, 292

Simmons, Merle, 23

Simpson, George Gaylord, 204

Sioux Indians, 100

Skinner, Charles M., 160, 177-196 passim

Skotheim, Robert Allen, 227

Smith, Henry Nash, 154

Society Islands, 205, 208

South Carolina, 187

South Uist, 34

Spain, 245

Spaulding, John H., 186

Spencer, Herbert, 286

Stagalee, folk hero, 108

Standish, Myles, 186

Stekert, Ellen, 9

Stewart, Duncan, 89

Stewart, George R., 178

Strong, W. D., 203

Stuckey, Sterling, 247

Sturluson, Snorri, Icelandic sagaman, 210

Susto, 60, 62-63, 73, 76

Swanton, John R., 202, 204

Sweden, 22, 31, 93, 104

Swedish-American folklore, 93-96, 108, 113-114

Switzerland, 23, 69, 189

Sydow, Carl von, 18

Tahaki, Polynesian hero, 208

Tahiti, 206

Tale Types: 38, Bear Persuaded to Stick Claw into Cleft of Tree, 191; 155, The Ungrateful Serpent Returned to Captivity, 111; 720, My Father Slew Me, My Mother Ate Me, 191; 922, The Emperor and the Abbot, 211; 1074, The Race, 39; 1119, The Ogre Kills His Own Children, 184; 1281A, Getting Rid of the Man-Eating Calf, 219; 1525, The Master Thief, 112-113; 1641, Doctor Know-All, 111-112; 1739, The Parson and the Calf, 219; 1890, The Wonderful Hunt, 173

Tall Tales: Anglo-American, 82, 90-92, 101, 105; Black American, 104, 107; characteristics of, 92; dialect, 113-115; ethnic, 106; of local characters, 164, 165; and travelers’ tales, 172. See also Anecdotes

Tangaroa, Rarotonga deity, 207

Tarzan, 156

Taylor, Archer, 5, 12, 20, 21, 30, 100

Taylor, William R., 232

Tennessee, 35, 45, 120, 174

Tennyson, Alfred, 270

Terkel, Studs, 247

Texas: 60, 162; University of, 11, 12, 300

Thailand, 31

Thebes, 152

Thernstrom, Stephan, 237

Theseus, 149

Thompson, Stith, 7, 13, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 83, 98n, 100, 113, 173, 217, 246, 300, 301

Thorns, William John, 12, 17

Thoreau, Henry David, 97

Tibet, 291

Tokyo, 35

Trevelyan, George, 210

Trickster: 97; horse trading, 116-117; Winnebago, 153; Yankee, 179

Troy, 149, 216, 221

Truman, Harry, 123, 237

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 238

Tylor, Edward B., 25, 148, 277, 290

Uganda, 31

United States: 81, 82; frontier conditions in, 161; legend study in, 159, 160, 170-171

Upper Peninsula, Michigan, 73, 93, 96, 102, 104-106, 109, 168, 171

Urban folklore, 7, 9, 10, 33-79 passim, 195

Utah, 106

Ute Indians, 179

Vansina, Jan, 217, 220

Vazsonyi, Andrew, 35

Vecoli, Rudolph, 233

Vermont, 27, 123, 179, 180

Viehmannin, Frau, oral narrator, 12

Villa, Pancho, 59, 61, 195

Virginia, 35, 181

Vitaliano, Dorothy, 8

Volkskunde, 5, 29

Voltaire, 228

Von Hahn, J. G., 30

Voodoo, 37, 39-41, 64, 65, 264, 273, 274

Wales, 275-282 passim

Ward, Artemus, 119

Washington, D.C., 28, 63

Washington, George, legends of, 184

Watson, Will, 245

Wells, Herman B, 300

Welsh folklore, 275-282

West Indies, 104, 163

Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 245

Whittier, John G., 185

Wildhaber, Robert, 23

Williams, John A., 243, 244, 245, 246

Williams, T. Harry, 234, 241

Wilson, Sloan, 250

Winkelman, Donald M., 23

Winks, Robin, 232

Winthrop, John, 185

Wintu Indians, 189

Wisconsin, 6, 165, 166, 168

Witchcraft: Etruscan, 265; New England, 183; Italian, 263

Whitman, Walt, 27

Wolfe, General James, 85

Woodman, Harold D., 229

Woods, William, 185

Woodward, C. Vann, 232, 233, 234, 235, 239, 240

Wooley, Sir Leonard, 216

Yalta, 49

Yankee: stereotype of, 115-116, 117, 118, 120, 163, 261; trickster yarns, 179

Yarns: 82, 101, 105, 179; of Abe Lincoln, 119-123; trickster, 116-117. See also Anecdotes Tall tales

Zapata, Emiliano, 195

Zeus, 149

Zuñi Indians, 189