Types of Folklore I Collected

TYPES OF MATERIALS COLLECTED
for Alan Dundes' Folklore class

1. Proverbs
Work every day—Portuguese
Mouth/Rome—Portuguese
Shopping—Portuguese
Water/stone—Portuguese
Mouth shut—Portuguese
Commom/uncommon—Irish
Actions/words—American
Parsley/devil—Irish
babysitters/child—Russian
avanti/—Provencal

2. Place Name, Piana digli Albanesi, Italy

3. Song, Josephus
Dandle Rhyme, Albanian

4. Superstitions
step/graves stumble/graves
walking/graves
shiver/graves
take my place in a grave
bird/house/death
stairs
dropped knife
extra plate
extra guest
itchy palms
burning ears
shithooks

5 Folk Narrative
Rhiannon’s birds
Halloween
calendar custom
St. Joseph
Ding Dong Daddy

6 Folk Speech
8-ball
clean-up man
George (3)
I dunno
seat/feet
tea/pee
Foodways
Toofta
Irish bread