| AA | American Anthropologist |
| AAA | American Anthropological Association |
| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AFS | American Folklore Society |
| ARBAE | Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology |
| AT | Aarne-Thompson. |
| BAE | Bureau of American Ethnology |
| FFC | Folklore Fellows Communications, Helsinki, Finland |
| JAF | Journal of American Folklore |
| JFI | Journal of the Folklore Institute |
| KAS | Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers |
| NYFQ | New York Folklore Quarterly |
| PMLA | Publications of the Modern Language Association |
| SFQ | Southern Folklore Quarterly |
| UPFFA | University of Pennsylvania Department of Folklore and Folklife Archives |
| WF | Western Folklore |