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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAppendix 1 "Primitive Communal Culture," from Primitive Gemeinschaftskultur, by Hans Naumann (1921) --Translated by James R. Dow and Reuben Peterson Translators' Note: The original German text includes only...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: German-speaking folklorists have no single "grand theory" of folklore; indeed a formal "farewell" was taken in 1970. This leave-taking was a result of abuses of Volkskunde during the years of National...
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From:Folklore (Vol. 117, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article examines the popular early German prose text Fortunatus both as folktale and as mercantile myth, concentrating on the hitherto critically neglected Wishing-Hat, which is regarded in this essay...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForests to the northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories (or, as they are perhaps better called in...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA cock and a hen once wanted to go a journey together. So the cock built a beautiful carriage with four red wheels, and he harnessed four little mice to it. And the cock and the hen got into it, and were driven off. Very...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHans Naumann is known primarily for the term gesunkenes Kulturgut, to such a degree that he is inseparable from the term. It is rarely translated but just left in the German original. It was, however, his conception of...
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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLutz Rohrich, one of the founding members of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, is known to have reestablished the discipline of folk narrative research at a time when it stood degraded in the very...