Also reintroducing Field Notes for Storytellers, which is still available here:
csmaccath.store/b/fieldnotes...
#folkloristics #folklore #writing #storytelling
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My latest short video discusses the many ways we tell and once told stories and some of the ways folklore scholars think about narrative transmission.
#THESTORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #folkloristics #folklore #AcademicSky
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I saw an Internet meme a couple of weeks ago that read "You know it's a bad sign when the folk music is good again." Folklorist/musician Ceallaigh was like "Ain't that the truth?" So I dedicated this month's Special Dispatch to the topic.
Read it here: csmaccath.com/voicesandgui...
#folkloristics
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This month's Special Dispatch is a discussion of the Maggie Wall Witch Monument near Dunning in Perth. I visited the monument in November and found the votive offerings there interesting from a folkloristic perspective. Read it here:
csmaccath.com/astone...
#scotland #witches #folkloristics
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A new open article from the Folklore journal comparing certain Facebook "chain letters" to apotropaic magic #folklore #folkloristics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A shelf in a book store with lots of elf-on-the-shelf-themed products.
Trying to write something intelligent about the Elf on the Shelf tradition as it has manifested in Scandinavia, & it is hard! Also: rather depressing how BAD commercial children's books are. Some of these publications are seriously trash. #academicsky #folkloristics
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Spectacular lilliputian hallucinations consistently triggered by previously undocumented (by science) #bolete species nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...
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#folklore #fairytales #mythology #anthropology #folkloristics
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New course! Field Notes for Storytellers: Research, Security, and the Archival Muse fills a wide gap in storytelling instruction by helping you organize and conduct the research that underpins the stories you tell. Learn more at the link below.
---> csmaccath.com/courses
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📢Calling #politicaltheory, #anthropology, #folkloristics, #sociology, #education, #securitystudies, #culturalstudies, #mediastudies, #socialpsychology researchers!
The #callforpapers for our conference engaging with #conspiracytheories and fostering #democracy is still open 📌
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Call for Papers: Folklore Fellows Summer School 2026.
Deadline for submissions 31 October 2025
#folklore
#folkloristics
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I have a book review in this issue of the Journal of American Folklore for "Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction." #AcademicSky, #Folkloristics
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Special Dispatches Social Card
First up in the Special Dispatches series, an essay titled "Ⓥ 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈." From the text:
"Posting your pronouns in a social media profile is the modern-day equivalent of finding a magic ring in a fairy tale."
Read it here: folkloreandfiction.c...
#pronouns, #emojis, #folklore, #folkloristics
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First page of the article "Father Christmas Executed" by Claude Lèvi-Strauss.
I haven't read much Lévi-Strauss, but I am pretty sure this is the best of all his texts. Also, the coolest title. #academicsky #folkloristics #tradition
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Folklorists! Here's a great opportunity for publication at the intersection of folklore and pop culture. #folkloristics
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I made this pattern & embroidered it on a pillowcase because I am annoyed with people not knowing the Two Wolves story is fakelore.
#folkloristics #academicsky
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#DARIAH2025 Working Group Showcase. Wondering when the #oralhistory and digital #folkloristics will step in -- so much to share, learn, and collaborate on. @dariaheu.bsky.social
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Collage of impressions from the panel room.
First session today, I went to "Navigating sameness and difference: Everyday experiences of inclusion and exclusion". Wide range of topics! From black metal nazis to Spanish slugs, stereotypes of Swedish Finns, & mixed-citizenship couples. #nefk2025 #ethnology #folkloristics #migrationstudies
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Veered into computational #folkloristics several months ago with Geographic Lens on Stories (GLOS), experimenting with LLM-aided methods. Put together a couple basic tools, now focusing on inducing schemas for creation myths. Blog post: kgeographer.org, tools: glos.kgeographer.org
#folklore
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A slide showing an old book page and a list of Finnish terms.
Risto Järv on translation restructuring "Finnische Mythologie". #folkloristics #nefk2025
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Folklorists! I'm looking for good reading on 1) occupational folklore, 2) family folklore, and 3) child lore. If you have any recommendations, please send them my way. #folklore, #folkloristics
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Papers, pens, & a bottle of water on a table in the sunny forest. In the background some historical timber museum buildings.
Moving the office outdoors for reading Alessandro Testas excellent piece on frazerism, fertility & carnival #anthropology #folkloristics #museumlife
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SIEF speaking up in solidarity with US scholars: "...call for an immediate halt to intimidation, de-funding, and the ongoing delegitimization of vast areas of research based on political ideologies and expediency."
#folkloristics #ethnology #sief
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I curate the #folkloristics, #folklore, and #fairytale feeds once a day, since my exclusions don't always filter everything out that I want them to. But I'll be away from tomorrow until Beltane, so my curation will be sporadic, at best. Talk amongst yourselves about folklore, and I'll see you then.
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Mid-Career American Folklorists: Alas, this opportunity is not for me, but it might be for you, and it looks like a good one. It's a 4-month teaching and research opportunity at the University of Iceland. #folklore #folkloristics
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I've been thinking a lot about what #folkloristics can offer to #ecology and #conservation. The UN report I shared earlier today offers a path forward that abandons capitalism in favour of connection to the Earth, but how do we get there?
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WHISPERS IN THE ECHO CHAMBER Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society Edited by Jesse A. Fivecoate and Andrea Kitta (Book with white cover, red ball of yarn.)
Omg look what I got! 🥳 #folkloristics
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I've just been offered the opportunity to contribute to the Introduction of a reprinted early 20th century American grimoire. (More later on the title and such.) I said YES PLZ GIVE IT TO ME FOR I AM A FOLKLORE SCHOLAR. EEE! Just like that. Only in a really academic tone. #folkloristics
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The new Folklore & Fiction website is live! You'll find it at the link below, and I hope you'll sign up for the archive and monthly newsletter. Many thanks to my husband and in-house web developer for doing such beautiful work.
#FolkloreAndFiction #Folkbyte #Folkloristics #Folklore
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This video concludes my three-part discussion on the folkloristics of superstition by encouraging storytellers to view writing superstition-based conflict in three ways. #folklore #folkloristics #superstition
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So, I haven't been to American Folklore Society's Annual Meeting for some years because I am cutting down on flying... but I miss the USAmericans and wanted to go next year. But... apparantly not? The US seems out of the question for some time now? #academicsky #folkloristics
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