Folklore Curriculum

Folklore, myth, and symbolism

Ancient Myth

Cupid and Psyche

Iconography of Christendom

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

Max Muller

Mircea Eliade

Carl Jung

George Frazer

Marie-Louise von Franz

Margaret Fay Shaw

Georges Dumézil

Aarnes Thompson

Alan Dundes

Vladimir Propp

Umberto Eco

Roland Barthes

Italo Calvino