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Learn About the Study of Folklore as an Academic Discipline at University College Cork
Listen to professors at University College Cork discussing the many facets of folklore,...
Video: University College Cork, Ireland (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Guslar
Guslar, or epic singer, Milutin Milojević accompanying himself on the gusla.
Courtesy of John Miles Foley.
Aesop
Aesop, with a fox, from the central medallion of a kylix, c. 470 bc;...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Illustration of mermaids and merman
Mermaids and merman, illustration by Hans Tegner, from the 1900 edition of Fairy...
Courtesy of the Folklore Society Library, University College, London; photograph, R.B. Fleming
The Brothers Grimm
Jacob (right) and Wilhelm Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 1855;...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz