Children’s Folklore Recent Titles in Greenwood Folklore Handbooks Myth: a handbook

Children’s Folklore Review
24 (2002): 21–32.
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Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture.
Lexington: UP of 
Kentucky, 2004.
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Raising the Devil.
Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000.
Fine, Gary Alan. “Rude Words: Insults and Narration in Preadolescent Obscene Talk.” 
Maledicta
5 (1981): 51–68.
Freud, Sigmund. “The Acquisition and Control of Fire.” 1932. 
Psychoanalytic Electronic 
Publishing.
 2008. http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=SE.022.0183A.
Goldstein, Kenneth S. “Strategy in Counting-Out: An Ethnographic Field Study.” 
The
Study of Games.
Ed. Elliott M. Avedon and Brian Sutton-Smith. New York: Wiley, 1971. 
167–78.
Gomme, Alice Bertha. 
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
2 vols. 
1894–98. New York: Dover, 1964.

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Folklore
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. “The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices 
and Social Organization in the Frame of Play.” 
Journal of American Folklore
98.389 
(1985): 315–30.
Grider, Sylvia. “The Haunted House in Literature, Popular Culture, and Tradition: A 
Consistent Image.” 
Contemporary Legend
new series 2 (1999): 174–204.
Grugeon, Elizabeth. “ ‘We Like Singing the Spice Girl Songs . . . and We Like Tig and Stuck 
in the Mud’: Girls’ Traditional Games in Two Playgrounds.” 
Play Today in the Primary 
School Playground.
Ed. Julia C. Bishop and Mavis Curtis. Buckingham, Eng., and 
Philadelphia: Open UP, 2001. 98–114.
Halliwell, James O. 
The Nursery Rhymes of England.
London: Percy Society, 1842.
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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England.
1849. London: Bodley Head, 1970.
Hart, Roger. 
Children’s Experience of Place.
New York: Irvington, 1979.
Howard, Dorothy G. M. “Folk Jingles of American Children.” Dissertation, New York 
University, 1938.
———. “Introduction to Dover Edition.” 
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, 
and Ireland.
By Alice Bertha Gomme. Vol. 1. New York: Dover, 1964. v–xvi.
———. “Post Script, 1990” to “Folk Jingles of American Children: A Collection and 
Study of Rhymes Used by Children Today.” Quoted in June Factor, “A Forgotten 
Pioneer.” 
Child’s Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children.
Ed. 
Kate Darian-Smith and June Factor. Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2005. 1–18.
Hughes, Linda A. “ ‘You Have to Do It with Style’: Girls’ Games and Girls’ Gaming.” 
Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore.
Ed. Susan Tower Hollis, Linda Pershing, and 
M. Jane Young. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. 130– 48.
Jorgensen, Marilyn G. “An Analysis of Boy-Girl Relationships Portrayed in Contemporary 
Jump Rope and Handclapping Rhymes.” 
Southwest Folklore
4.3– 4 (1980): 63–71.
Kelsey, Nigel. “Norman Douglas Revisited.” 
London Lore
1.10 (October 1983): 117–25.
Klintberg, Bengt af. “ ‘Black Madame, Come Out!’: On Schoolchildren and Spirits.” 
Arv 
44 (1988): 155–67.
Knapp, Mary, and Herbert Knapp. 
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American 
Children.
New York: Norton, 1976.
Langlois, Janet. “ ‘Mary Whales, I Believe in You’: Myth and Ritual Subdued.” 
Indiana 
Folklore
11.1 (1978): 5–33.
Legman, Gershon. 
Rationale of the Dirty Joke.
New York: Grove, 1968.
Lüthi, Max. 
Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 
1976.
Marsh, Kathryn. “It’s Not All Black or White: The Influence of the Media, the Classroom, 
and Immigrant Groups on Children’s Playground Singing Games.” 
Play Today in the 
Primary School Playground.
Ed. Julia C. Bishop and Mavis Curtis. Buckingham, Eng., 
and Philadelphia: Open UP, 2001. 80–97.
McDowell, John H. “The Speech Play and Verbal Art of Chicano Children: An 
Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1975.
Mechling, Jay. “The Magic of the Boy Scout Campfire.” 
Journal of American Folklore
93 
(1980): 35–56.
Mergen, Bernard. “Children’s Lore in School and Playgrounds.” 
Children’s Folklore: A Source 
Book.
Ed. Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. 
McMahon. New York and London: Garland, 1995. 229–50.

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Newell, William Wells. 
Games and Songs of American Children.
1883. New York: Dover, 
1963.
Opie, Iona. 
The People in the Playground.
New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. 
Children’s Games in Street and Playground.
New York: Oxford 
UP, 1969.
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I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1947.
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
New York: Oxford UP, 1959.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
1951. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
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The Singing Game.
New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
Piaget, Jean. 
The Moral Judgment of the Child.
1932. New York: Free, 1965.
Riley, Linda. “Extremes: How Girls Play Slaughter, How Boys Play Slaughter at Valley 
Oak Elementary.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
13.1 (1990): 10–16.
Roemer, Danielle M. “A Social Interactional Analysis of Anglo Children’s Folklore: Catches 
and Narratives.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1977.
Russell, Heather. 
Play and Friendships in a Multi-Cultural Playground.
Melbourne: 
Australian Children’s Folklore Publications, 1986.
Strutt, Joseph. 
Sports and Pastimes of the People of England.
London: Tegg, 1801.
Sutton-Smith, Brian. 
The Ambiguity of Play.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.
———. “Courage in the Playground: A Tribute to Dorothy Howard.” 
Child’s Play: 
Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children.
Ed. Kate Darian-Smith and 
June Factor. Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2005. 187–204.
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The Folkgames of Children.
Austin: U of Texas P, 1972.
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The Folkstories of Children.
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1981.
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The Games of New Zealand Children.
Los Angeles and Berkeley: U of California P, 
1959.
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A History of Children’s Play: The New Zealand Playground 1840–1950.
Philadelphia: 
U of Pennsylvania P, 1981.
———. “A Play Biography.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
20.1–2 (1997–98): 5– 42.
———. “The Play of Girls.” 
Becoming Female.
Ed. Claire B. Kopp and Martha Kirk-
patrick. New York: Plenum, 1979. 229–57.
Talbot, Margaret, “Girls Just Want to Be Mean.” 
The New York Times Magazine
(Febru-
ary 24, 2002): 24–65.
Tucker, Elizabeth. “Concepts of Space in Children’s Narratives.” 
Folklore on Two Con-
tinents: Essays in Honor of Linda Dégh.
Ed. Nikolai Burlakoff and Carl Lindahl. 
Bloomington: Trickster, 1980. 19–25.
———. “Ghosts in Mirrors: Reflections of the Self.” 
Journal of American Folklore
118.468 
(2005): 186–203.
———. “Levitation and Trance Sessions at Preadolescent Girls’ Slumber Parties.” 
The
Masks of Play.
Ed. Brian Sutton-Smith and Diana Kelly-Byrne. New York: Leisure, 
1984. 125–33.
———. “ ‘Mean Girls’: The Reclassification of Children’s and Adolescents’ Folklore.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
25.1–2 (2002–03): 7–22.
Van Rheenan, Derek. “Boys Who Play Hopscotch: The Historical Divide of a Gendered 
Space.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
21.1 (1998): 5–34.
Virtanen, Leea. 
Children’s Lore.
Studia Fennica 22. Helsinki: Suomalisen Kirjallisuuden 
Seura, 1978.

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Wiltshire, Robin. “The Nigel Kelsey Collection of Folklore, 1962–1990.” 
Folklore
112.1 
(April 2001): 82–87.
Wiseman, Rosalind. 
Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, 
Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence.
New York: Crown, 2002.
Withers, Carl. “Introduction to Dover Edition.” 
Games and Songs of American Children.
By William Wells Newell. New York: Dover, 1963.
Wolfenstein, Martha. 
Children’s Humor: A Psychological Analysis.
New York: Free, 1954. 
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
Zumwalt, Rosemary. “Plain and Fancy: A Content Analysis of Children’s Jokes Dealing 
with Adult Sexuality.” 
Readings in American Folklore.
Ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New 
York: Norton, 1979. 345–54.

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