Massicotte, archivist at Montreal City Hall and folklorist, continued Barbeau's research and concluded: " la ceinture fléchée un chef d ’ œuvre de l ’ industrie domestique du Canada " Dorothy Burnham explains clearly how the technique drew its origins from the indigenous peoples, but as she also points out, it has been practically sacriligious in Québec to state that it has an origin other than French.

The director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress Peggy Bulger, the subject of whose doctoral thesis was Kennedy's work as a folklorist, commented in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press, " Exposing their folklore – all their secret handshakes, passwords and how silly they were, dressing up in white sheets ...

* May 22 – Lady Gregory, Irish writer and folklorist ( b. 1852 )

For the Scottish, English, and Irish volumes, he worked with the BBC and folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Scots poet Hamish Henderson, and with the Irish folklorist Séamus Ennis, recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin ; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson ; and Harry Cox of Norfolk, England, and interviewing some of these performers at length about their lives.

* January 19 — William Larminie, Irish poet and folklorist ( born 1849 )

* Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( 1821 – 1896 ), Irish political activist, poetess, folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory ( 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932 ), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.

Irish historian Thomas Keightley has argued that the German kobold and the Scandinavian nis predate the Irish fairy and the Scottish brownie and influenced the beliefs in those entities, but American folklorist Richard Mercer Dorson has discounted this argument as reflecting Keightley's bias toward Gotho-Germanic ideas over Celtic ones.

A. T. Lucas, folklorist and Director of the National Museum of Ireland in the 1960s, published a study of the references to souterrains in the early Irish annals.

Sliabh Luachra was also the birthplace the folklorist, poet, and translator Edward Walsh ( 1805-1850 ), An tAthair Padraig Duinnin who compiled Dineens Dictionary which is to this day the bible of the Irish Language, and An Brthair Toms Rathaille, Superior General of the Presentation Brothers 1905-1925 who wrote two books of Irish poetry An Spideog and An Cuaicin Draoideachta.

* The story is retold within Gods and Fighting Men by Irish folklorist Lady Augusta Gregory, first published in 1904.

* The story is also told within Irish Sagas and Folktales by folklorist Eileen O ' Faolain and first published by Oxford University Press in 1954.

Joe McGowan ( 7 January 1944, Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo, Ireland ) is an Irish historian, folklorist, and author specialising in the history and heritage of Ireland.

American folklorist Sabina Magliocco came to the conclusion, based upon her ethnographic fieldwork in California, that certain pagan beliefs " arise from what they experience during religious ecstasy ".

For example, folklorist Barre Toelken explains that Hymes ’ s “ knowledge of the extant Chinookan languages ” helped him to “ notice stylistic devices that highlighted certain actions and themes and even performance styles that brought scenes into sharp focus ” ( 2003, 122 ).

The folklorist Vladimir Propp proposed that many Russian fairy tales have a common plot structure, in which certain events happen in a predictable order.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

In 1994, folklorist Maggie Holtzberg, working as a folklore fieldworker to document traditional folk music in Alabama, produced a documentary film Gandy Dancers.

In 1973, Górecki approached the Polish folklorist Adolf Dygacz in search of traditional melodies to incorporate in a new work.

Occasionally they produce documentary films on aspects of traditional arts ; Smithsonian folklorist Marjorie Hunt won an Academy Award for her 1984 short documentary film The Stone Carvers about the carvers at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford ( March 21, 1882-September 4, 1973 ) was a lawyer, folklorist, and performer of traditional ( folk and country ) music from western North Carolina.

" Poet, author, folklorist and traditional music aficionado " Mattie Lennon has written a play about the life and works of Sean McCarthy entitled " And All his Songs Were Sad ".

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

* Zef Skiroi ( 1865 – 1925 ), poet, historian, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, the most representative of the Arbëreshë literature cultural tradition.

For example the noted folklorist Alan Dundes argues that " any novel cannot meet the cultural criteria of myth.

Gershon Legman ( November 2, 1917 – February 23, 1999 ) was an American cultural critic and folklorist.

This warning persists to modern times ; it has been questioned by folklorist Bob Curran whether the ill luck of the De Lorean Motor Company was associated with the destruction of a fairy thorn to make way for a production facility.

( The folklorist Vladimir Propp is also often associated with the movement.

His source, the Welsh folklorist Gwenith Gwynn, assumed that the custom had once existed on the basis of conversations with elderly Welsh people during the 1920s, none of whom had ever seen such a practice.

Finnish folklorist Kaarle Krohn proposes that 20 of the 45 poems of The Kalevala are of possible Ancient Estonian origin or they at least deal with a motif of Estonian origin ( of the remainder, two are Ingrian and 23 are Western Finnish ).

In a 1994 academic paper, the folklorist Jacqueline Simpson noted that British folklorists remembered Murray with " embarrassment " and a " sense of paradox.

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

However, some historians have disagreed with this claim, for instance the Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow attacked Frazer's theories, claiming that the Yule log had never had any religious significance, and was instead simply a festive decoration with practical uses.

The term hoax is occasionally used in reference to urban legends and rumors, but the folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand argues that most of them lack evidence of deliberate creations of falsehood and are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes, so the term should be used for only those with a probable conscious attempt to deceive.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco has theorised that prior to being used in Leland's Gospel, Aradia was originally a supernatural figure in Italian folklore, who was later merged with other folkloric figures such as the sa Rejusta of Sardinia.

During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

Lomax, born in Austin in 1915, was third of the four children of pioneering folklorist and author John A. Lomax, with whom he started his career by recording songs sung by sharecroppers and prisoners in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

A legend recorded by folklorist Joseph Snowe from a place called Alte Burg in 1839 tells of a creature " in the shape of a short, thick-set being, neither boy nor man, but akin to the condition of both, garbed in a party-coloured loose surcoat, and wearing a high-crowned hat with a broad brim on his diminutive head.

Since the ballads were known to have been a pan-European, Turkish, and North African phenomenon, Child and Grundtvig also consulted with numerous scholars in other parts of the world, such as, for example, the Sicilian physician, folklorist, and ethnographer Giuseppe Pitrè.

" In 1947, the day after producing a concert by Slim, Broonzy, and Williamson at New York City's Town Hall, folklorist Alan Lomax brought the three musicians to the Decca studios and recorded with Slim's on vocal and piano.

He collaborated extensively with folklorist Kizen Sasaki, and they published several books together.

The folklorist Stith Thompson, although crediting Schoolcraft's research with being a " landmark ," was quite critical of him: " Unfortunately, the scientific value of his work is marred by the manner in which he has reshaped the stories to fit his own literary taste.

He met with folklorist and former political prisoner Harry Brauner, poet Ştefan Iureş, painter Matilda Ulmu and art historian Geo Şerban.

The first volume of the Great Dictionary of Mat by the Russian linguist and folklorist Alexei Plutser-Sarno ( Большой словарь мата ) treats only expressions with the stem khuy ( huy ), numbering over 500 entries ; 12 volumes are planned.