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Storytelling and Folktelling Research Guide

This guide will help new and experienced storytellers locate and access information about the history of storytelling, classical myths, legends, family tales, ballads, folk and fairy tales.

Reference Titles

Folklore by Thomas A. Green (Editor)
Call Number: CCSU Reference GR35 F63
ISBN: 087436986X
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
"Articles by leading scholars, basic cultural concepts, academic theories and methodologies, supernatural creatures and stereotypical characters are discussed with regard to the field of folklore." American Libraries, May 1999

The Reference Department is located on the third floor of the Burritt Library.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife by William M. Clements
Call Number: CCSU Reference GR35 G75 2006
ISBN: 0313328471
Publication Date: 2005-12-01
A Guide to the Gods by Marjorie Leach
Call Number: CCSU Reference BL473 L43 1992
ISBN: 0874365910
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
Handbook of Classical Mythology by William F. Hansen
Call Number: CCSU Reference BL723 H36 2004
ISBN: 1576072266
Publication Date: 2004-06-10
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend by Anthony S. Mercatante
Call Number: CCSU Curriculum Lab REF 291.1 M553fa 2003
ISBN: 0816010498
Publication Date: 1988-11-01
Folklore of World Holidays by Margaret Read MacDonald (Editor)
Call Number: Ref GR3930 F65
ISBN: 081037577X
Publication Date: 1991-12-01
Motif-Index of Folk-Literature by Stith Thompson; Stith Thompson
Call Number: CCSU Reference GR67 T476 1989
ISBN: 0253338816
Publication Date: 1960-01-22
Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend by Maria Leach; Jerome Fried (Editor)
Call Number: CCSU Reference GR35 F982
ISBN: 0062505114
Publication Date: 1984-09-26
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Robert E. Bell
Call Number: CCSU Reference BL715 B44
ISBN: 0874363055
Publication Date: 1980-12-01
Goddesses in world mythology by Martha Ann, Dorothy Myers Imel
Call Number: CCSU Reference BL473.5 A66 1993
ISBN: 0874367158
D'Aulaire's Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Call Number: CCSU Curr Lab J 398.23 A924N
ISBN: 0385236921
Publication Date: 1986-08-19
Located in the Curriculum Lab, 3rd floor.
Dictionary of mythology, folklore and symbols. Part 3. Index by Gertrude Jobes
Call Number: CCSU Reference GR35 J62 pt.3
Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman
Call Number: CL Ref 398.2 I38
ISBN: 1143896394
Publication Date: 1926
Located in the Curriculum Lab, 3rd floor.
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Call Number: CCSU Curr Lab J 292 A924i
ISBN: 0440406943
Publication Date: 1962
Located in the Curriculum Lab, 3rd floor.

Storytelling journals

The Museletter : a Project of LANES, the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling
ISBN: 10913327

The most current issues are available on the 4th floor.

Storytelling Magazine
Jonesborough, Tenn. : National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling,

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