Folklore, Folk Customs, Folk Tales

• Australia

  • Davey, Gwenda Beed and Graham Seals, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 381pp.
  
  

• Europe

  • Great Britain
    • General
      • Hole, Christina. A Dictionary of British Folk Customs, Oxford: Helicon Publishing, Ltd., 1995. 349pp. A one-volume encyclopedia of British folk customs. Includes maps, a calendar, and a bibliography.
    • Ireland
      • Gregory, Isabella. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland. 1920.
  
  

• North America

  • Native American
    • Clements, William M., compiler. Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1986. 271pp. An anthology of nineteenth-century Euro-American anthropologists' writings on Native American folklore.
  
  

• South America

  • General
  • Amazonia
    • Slater, Candace. Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 314pp. Explores Amazonian folktales involving freshwater dolphins that shapeshift into humans.
    • Smith, Nigel J.H. The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories from a Changing World. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996. 194pp. Discusses folktales from Amazonia.