Folklore Curriculum

Folklore, myth, narrative, and symbolism

Selected Tellings

Stories of Fox and Wolf

Ancient Myth

Cupid and Psyche

Christendom

Iconography of Christendom

19th Century National Scholarship

Brothers Grimm - Germany

Alexander Afanasyev - Russia

Elias Lönnrot - Finland - Kalevala

William Butler Yeats - Ireland

John Francis Cambell - Scotland

Abjornsen and Moe - Norway

Evald Tang Kristensen - Denmark

Joseph Ritson - English nursery rhymes

Francis James Child - English ballads

Niccolò Tommaseo - Italy

Walter Scott - Borderer ballads

Bell & Dixon - English Peasant Songs

William John Thoms - English Folklore

Sabine Baring-Gould - English folklore and Saints Tales

Academics, Symbolists and Psychologists

Max Muller

Mircea Eliade

Carl Jung

George Frazer

Iona and Peter Opie

Marie-Louise von Franz

Margaret Fay Shaw

Georges Dumézil

Aarnes Thompson

Alan Dundes

Vladimir Propp

Umberto Eco

Roland Barthes

Italo Calvino