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0.65 Roman Jakobson, Balladic Byliny Recorded in the South Ladoga Basin, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.53 Benjamin A. Stolz, Nikac and Hamza: Multiformity in the Serbo-Croatian Heroic Epic, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1970.
0.50 Felix J. Oinas, The Study of Folklore in Yugoslavia, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.45 Felix J. Oinas, The Mistreated Bride: A Balto-Finnic Ballad and Its Slavic Background, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1964.
0.43 Albert B. Lord, Homer the Trojan War and History, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1971.
0.40 William E. Harkins, Boasting in the Russian Byliny, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.39 Martti Haavio, The Oldest Source of Finnish Mythology: Birchbark Letter No 292, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1964.
0.39 Alex Edward Alexander, The Russian Chastushka Abroad, The Journal of American Folklore, 1976.
0.38 Anthony J. Klančar, A Tentative Bibliography on the Slovene Proverb, The Journal of American Folklore, 1948.
0.38 Dmitri Čiževsky, Yaroslav the Wise in East-Slavic Epic Poetry, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.38 Russell Zguta, Kievan "Byliny": Their Enigmatic Disappearance from Kievan Territory, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1972.
0.38 Patricia Arant, Concurrence of Patterns in the Russian "Bylina", Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1970.
0.38 John S. Kolsti, A Song about the Collapse of the Noli Government in Albania, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.35 Aili Nenola Susan Sinisalo, The Units of Comparison in the Study of Baltic-Finnish Laments, Journal of Folklore Research, 1986.
0.35 Felix J. Oinas, Russian Formulas in Eastern Balto-Finnic Fairy Tales, The Journal of American Folklore, 1955.
0.34 Kiril Penušliski, Macedonian Local Traditions of Prince Marko, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.34 Robert B. Klymasz James Porter, Traditional Ukrainian Balladry in Canada, Western Folklore, 1974.
0.34 Albert B. Lord, History and Tradition in Balkan Oral Epic and Ballad, Western Folklore, 1972.
0.32 Guntis Šmidchens, Notes on the Latvian National Hero Lāčplēsis, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.30 Kiril Penušliski, Macedonian Revolutionary Folk Poetry and the National Consciousness of the Macedonian People, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.30 Natalie Kononenko, Duma Pro Chornobyl': Old Genres New Topics, Journal of Folklore Research, 1992.
0.30 Ivan A. Lopatin, What the People Are Now Singing in a Russian Village, The Journal of American Folklore, 1951.
0.30 Felix J. Oinas, Folklore Activities in Russia, The Journal of American Folklore, 1961.
0.30 Thomas Jay Garbáty, The Fallible Sword: Inception of a Motif, The Journal of American Folklore, 1962.
0.29 Yvonne R. Lockwood, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: Pioneer and Continuing Inspiration of Yugoslav Folkloristics, Western Folklore, 1971.
0.29 Felix J. Oinas, Jumi: A Fertility Divinity, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1981.
0.29 Inkeri Rank, The Foreigner and the Finnish Maiden: A Theme in the Finnish Medieval Ballad, Western Folklore, 1981.
0.29 Marjorie Edgar, Finnish Charms from Minnesota, The Journal of American Folklore, 1934.
0.28 Zora Devrnja Zimmerman, The Changing Roles of the "Vila" in Serbian Traditional Literature, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1979.
0.28 Edmunds V. Bunkśe, Latvian Folkloristics, The Journal of American Folklore, 1979.
0.28 John Miles Foley, Strategies for Translating Serbo-Croatian Traditional Oral Narrative, Journal of Folklore Research, 1991.
0.28 William A. Wilson, The "Kalevala" and Finnish Politics, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.28 Sergei Kruks, The Latvian Epic "Lāčplēsis: Passe-Partout" Ideology Traumatic Imagination of Community, Journal of Folklore Research, 2004.
0.27 Vojislav Djurić, Prince Marko in Epic Poetry, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.27 Gulnara Aitpaeva, The Triad of Crime Punishment and Forgiveness in the Kyrgyz Epic Kojojash, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.27 Barbara Kerewsky Halpern John Miles Foley, The Power of the Word: Healing Charms as an Oral Genre, The Journal of American Folklore, 1978.
0.26 Zoe Borovsky, Never in Public: Women and Performance in Old Norse Literature, The Journal of American Folklore, 1999.
0.25 Marlene Ciklamini, Old Norse Epic and Historical Tradition, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1971.
0.25 Wade Tarzia, The Hoarding Ritual in Germanic Epic Tradition, Journal of Folklore Research, 1989.
0.25 Daniel P. Biebuyck, The African Heroic Epic, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.25 Eric L. Ball, Where Are the Folk? The Cretan "Mantinada" as Placed Literature, Journal of Folklore Research, 2002.
0.25 Albert Bates Lord, Avdo Međedović Guslar, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.24 Rebecca H. Hague, Ancient Greek Wedding Songs: The Tradition of Praise, Journal of Folklore Research, 1983.
0.24 Felix Oinas, The Sower, Journal of Folklore Research, 1983.
0.24 Felix J. Oinas, The Political Uses and Themes of Folklore in the Soviet Union, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.24 Archer Taylor, Attila and Modern Riddles, The Journal of American Folklore, 1943.
0.24 Joseph Harris, "Ethnopaleography" and Recovered Performance: "The Problematic Witnesses to "Eddic Song"", Western Folklore, 2003.
0.23 Robert B. Klymasz, Folklore Politics in the Soviet Ukraine: Perspectives on Some Recent Trends and Developments, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.23 Eric L. Ball, Guarding the Wild: Place Tradition Literature and the Environment in the Work of a Cretan Folk Poet, The Journal of American Folklore, 2006.
0.23 Jonathan D. Evans, Semiotics and Traditional Lore: The Medieval Dragon Tradition, Journal of Folklore Research, 1985.
0.23 Dimitar Mitrev, Folklore in Macedonian Literature, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.23 Vlajko Palavestra, Tradition History and National Feeling, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.22 William A. Wilson, The Evolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory and the "Finnish Method", Western Folklore, 1976.
0.22 Jan Knappert, The Epic in Africa, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1967.
0.22 , Erratum: Performative Categories and Symbols of Passage in Rural Greece, The Journal of American Folklore, 1981.
0.22 Bruce A. Rosenberg, The Necessity of Unferth, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1969.
0.22 Joseph Fontenrose, The Building of the City Walls: Troy and Asgard, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.21 Richard P. Martin, Keens from the Absent Chorus: "Troy to Ulster", Western Folklore, 2003.
0.21 William J. Entwistle, New Light on the Epic-Ballad Problem, The Journal of American Folklore, 1949.
0.21 Danuta Bienkowska, History of Polish Folklore Research: 1945-70, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1973.
0.21 Ojars Kratins, An Unsung Hero: Krišjānis Barons and His Lifework in Latvian Folk Songs, Western Folklore, 1961.
0.21 Karl Reichl, Comparative Notes on the Performance of Middle English Popular Romance, Western Folklore, 2003.
0.20 S. G. Armistead J. H. Silverman, A Judeo-Spanish Kompla And Its Greek Counterpart, Western Folklore, 1964.
0.20 Anna-Leena Siikala, Variation in the Incantation and Mythical Thinking: The Scope of Comparative Research, Journal of Folklore Research, 1986.
0.20 Patricia E. Sawin, Lönnrot's Brainchildren: The Representation of Women in Finland's "Kalevala", Journal of Folklore Research, 1988.
0.20 W. Edson Richmond, The Study of Folklore in Finland, The Journal of American Folklore, 1961.
0.20 Thomas A. Dubois, Native Hermeneutics: Traditional Means of Interpreting Lyric Songs in Northern Europe, The Journal of American Folklore, 1996.
0.19 Louis C. Faron, The Magic Mountain and Other Origin Myths of the Mapuche Indians of Central Chile, The Journal of American Folklore, 1963.
0.19 Sergei Kruks, Ears and Father Ogres and Community: Reply to Guntis Šmidchens, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.19 Anna Caraveli, The Symbolic Village: Community Born in Performance, The Journal of American Folklore, 1985.
0.19 Joseph Fontenrose, The Oracular Response as a Traditional Narrative Theme, Journal of Folklore Research, 1983.
0.19 Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor, The Story of Van'ka Kain, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.19 Inna Golovakha-Hicks, Demonology in Contemporary Ukraine: Folklore or "Postfolklore"?, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.19 Joseph Szövérffy, History and Folk Tradition in Eastern Europe: Matthias Corvinus in the Mirror of Hungarian and Slavic Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1968.
0.19 Boris Kremenliev, Social and Cultural Changes in Balkan Music, Western Folklore, 1975.
0.19 John Miles Foley, Macpherson's Ossian: Trying to Hit a Moving Target, The Journal of American Folklore, 2002.
0.19 Mary P. Coote, Women's Songs in Serbo-Croatian, The Journal of American Folklore, 1977.
0.19 Bruce A. Beatie, Oral-Traditional Composition in the Spanish "Romancero" of the Sixteenth Century, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1964.
0.18 Felix J. Oinas, Spirits Devils and Fugitive Soldiers, The Journal of American Folklore, 1963.
0.18 Batya Weinbaum, Lament Ritual Transformed into Literature: Positing Women's Prayer as Cornerstone in Western Classical Literature, The Journal of American Folklore, 2001.
0.18 Robert Austerlitz, Folklore Nationality and the Twentieth Century in Siberia and the Soviet Far East, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.18 Robert B. Klymasz, The Letter in Canadian Ukrainian Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1969.
0.18 Carol L. Edwards, The Parry-Lord Theory Meets Operational Structuralism, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.18 Emil Vrabie, A Nineteenth-Century Incantation of Bulgarian Refugees in Romania, The Journal of American Folklore, 1978.
0.18 Inta Gale Carpenter, Festival as Reconciliation: Latvian Exile Homecoming in 1990. Journal of Folklore Research, 1996,
0.17 John Lindow, A Note on the Sources of Redundancy in Oral Epic, The Journal of American Folklore, 1974.
0.17 Inkeri Rank, The "Song of Tapani" in Finnish Christmas Celebration, Western Folklore, 1974.
0.17 Maximilian Braun, The Problem of "Moral Concepts" in Serbian Traditional Epic Poetry, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1964.
0.17 John Miles Foley, Explaining a Joke: Pelt Kid and Tale of Orašac, Western Folklore, 1994.
0.17 A. F. C., Mickiewicz and Folk-Literature, The Journal of American Folklore, 1902.
0.16 Dawn Osselman, The Three Sins of Kriemhilt, Western Folklore, 1990.
0.16 Branislav Rusić, The Mute Language in the Tradition and Oral Literature of the South Slavs, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.16 Alsace Yen, On Vladimir Propp and Albert B Lord: Their Theoretical Differences, The Journal of American Folklore, 1973.
0.16 John Miles Foley, Signs Texts and Oral Tradition, Journal of Folklore Research, 1996.
0.16 H. Rink F. Boas, Eskimo Tales and Songs, The Journal of American Folklore, 1889.
0.16 Signe M. Carlson, The Monsters of Beowulf: Creations of Literary Scholars, The Journal of American Folklore, 1967.
0.16 Edward Stankiewicz, Slavic Kinship Terms and the Perils of the Soul, The Journal of American Folklore, 1958.
0.16 Isidor Levin, Vladimir Propp: An Evaluation on His Seventieth Birthday, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1967.
0.16 Anna Caraveli, The Song beyond the Song Aesthetics and Social Interaction in Greek Folksong, The Journal of American Folklore, 1982.
0.15 William A. Wilson, Richard M Dorson's Theory for American Folklore: A Finnish Analogue, Western Folklore, 1982.
0.15 Anna Caraveli-Chaves, Bridge between Worlds: The Greek Women's Lament as Communicative Event, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.15 Francis J. Child, "Ballad Poetry" Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia 1900. Journal of Folklore Research, 1994,
0.15 Michael Herzfeld, Lévi-Strauss in the Nation-State, The Journal of American Folklore, 1985.
0.15 George T. Flom, The Lay of Thrym or the Fetching of Thor's Hammer, The Journal of American Folklore, 1907.
0.15 Richard Bauman, Performance and Honor in 13th-Century Iceland, The Journal of American Folklore, 1986.
0.15 Michael Herzfeld, Performative Categories and Symbols of Passage in Rural Greece, The Journal of American Folklore, 1981.
0.15 Boris Kremenliev, Some Social Aspects of Bulgarian Folksongs, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.15 Thomas A. Sebeok Erika Brady, The Two Sons of Croesus a Myth about Communication in Herodotus, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1978.
0.14 Pierre Bettez Gravel, A Legend in the Making: Manolas the Pirate, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1978.
0.14 Samuel G. Armistead Joseph H. Silverman, A Judeo-Spanish Derivative of the Ballad of The Bridge of Arta, The Journal of American Folklore, 1963.
0.14 K. S. Brown, Political Realities and Cultural Specificities in Contemporary Macedonian Jokes, Western Folklore, 1995.
0.13 Elli Kaiji Köngäs, Nicknames of Finnish Ajartment Houses in Brooklyn N Y, The Journal of American Folklore, 1964.
0.13 Samuel G. Armistead, Spanish Epic and Hispanic Ballad: The Medieval Origins of the Corrido, Western Folklore, 2005.
0.13 Susan D. Rutherford, Funny in Deaf Not in Hearing, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.13 Timothy R. Tangherlini, Afterword: Performing through the Past: Ethnophilology and Oral Tradition, Western Folklore, 2003.
0.13 Milko Matičetov, The Concept of Folklore in Yugoslavia, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1966.
0.13 Paul G. Brewster, The Legend of St Marcella Virgin Martyr, Western Folklore, 1957.
0.13 George Gibian, Dostoevskij's Use of Russian Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.12 Andriy Nahachewsky, New Ethnicity and Ukrainian Canadian Social Dances, The Journal of American Folklore, 2002.
0.12 George Vernadsky Dzambulat Dzanty, The Ossetian Tale of Iry Dada and Mstislav, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.12 John Miles Foley, Word-Power Performance and Tradition, The Journal of American Folklore, 1992.
0.11 J. W. Ashton, Three Twentieth Century Treatments of the Story of Odysseus, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1969.
0.11 Neil R. Grobman, Thomas Blackwell's Commentary on The Oral Nature of Epic, Western Folklore, 1979.
0.11 John D. Niles, Understanding Beowulf: Oral Poetry Acts, The Journal of American Folklore, 1993.
0.11 John D. Niles, The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet, Western Folklore, 2003.
0.11 Alex Scobie, An Ancient Greek Drakos-Tale in Apuleius' Metamorphoses VIII 19-21, The Journal of American Folklore, 1977.
0.11 Paul G. Brewster Georgia Tarsouli, Two English Ballads and Their Greek Counterparts, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.11 Jan Harold Brunvand, More Car Names from the West, Western Folklore, 1964.
0.11 Alexander Scharbach, Folklore Scholarship in Bulgaria, The Journal of American Folklore, 1967.
0.10 Pan. S. Codellas, Modern Greek Folklore: The Smerdaki, The Journal of American Folklore, 1945.
0.10 Veronica E. Aplenc, The Architecture of Vernacular Subjectivities: North American and Slovenian Perspectives, Journal of Folklore Research, 2005.
0.10 Jelena Cvorovic, Gypsies Drown in Shallow Water: Oral Narratives among Macva Gypsies, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.