... home department are sharing the award for 2009. The Chicago Folklore Prize is a book prize and it is the oldest and most distinguished award ... of Chicago, it is today given by the university in partnership with the American Folklore Society. Sharing the prize are my colleague Michael Dylan ... Indiana University) and Ray Cashman (Associate Professor of Folklore at The Ohio State University). Ray earned ...

... Ray Cashman whose book Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border received the Chicago Folklore Prize! The award was announced October 21 at the opening ceremonies of the ... Folklore Society conference.The Chicago Folklore Prize is the oldest international award that recognizes excellence in folklore scholarship and is offered jointly by the American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago ...

... , Dublin hosted an exhibition of twenty images from the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin for Culture Night in ... played a significant role in advancing the study of Irish folklore and ethnology and in cultivating Swedish-Irish relations. All ... and correspondence with Irish colleagues are now preserved in the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin. The black and ...

... contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all ... , and a "countdown to Halloween." Click this link to visit the American Folklore website: The Most Popular Myths in Science from Live Science This page offers the facts behind ...

... has other questions. Sadly not many people seem as interested as I am in the history and folklore that goes along with instrument design. This is not to say that the various people with whom I spoke weren't generous ... from my posting this but in truth, the end result is my instrument s my instrument and it may have some aspect of folklore to it but it's most important that we make our own ...

Happy Halloween!! (In three days.) In terms of folklore, American Halloween--despite claims that it is tied to ancient Celtic and medieval European festivals--is a very recent invention. ... Halloween candy to hide killing his own kid, committed his crime in 1974. As a testimony to the power of folklore, by the time I hit my late prepubescence (the early 80's), this isolated incident had taken ...