Journal of American Folklore Vol.124, No. 492, April 2011, the issues are all verbal folklore. I was sort of surprised from the issues I read in these articles. To tell the truth no I would have never minus the one on Harry Potter but even that one was hard to place for me. Folklore to me is hard to categorize. Well yes my definition of folklore did change. It was hard to understand what went under folklore but now that read these articles it makes it easier to categorize them. Well they chose these article’s maybe because they were interested in the issue and they knew what followed under folklore. In the articles "It Takes a Village to Change the World": Proverbial Politics and the Ethics of Place by Wolfgang Mieder is about how even people from the past like Abraham Lincoln, and martin Luther king and how they efforts to bring about human and social improvements regionally, nationally, and globally. Then you have The Wisdom of Wizards-and Muggles and Squibs: Proverb Use in the World of Harry Potter by Heather A. Haas is about the proverbs verses real life and the fantasy world. Gestures, Intercorporeity, and the Fate of Phenomenology in Folklore by Katharine Young is about how you gesture when you talk and how those gestures are proceeded. "May the Devil Take Your Head and Brain": The Curses of Karpathos, Greece, Social Counter structures, and the Management of Social Relations by Evangelos Gr. Avdikos which is about the curses helping keep a world view of the cultural area of Greece this custom might be more about the customary of folklore because of the rituals of everyday. They thought it was important which is good and they knew what they were talking about.
URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.492.issue-492
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