Folklore: Quick Facts

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Nineteenth-century illustration of the Brothers Grimm seated and listening to a woman tell stories in a rustic home, surrounded by children, a woman holding a baby, and a goose.

Chhau folk dance

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Key People

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen

Asbjørnsen and Moe

Norwegian authors

Ansky, S.

S. Ansky

Russian writer

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Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius

Lithuanian author

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Elias Lönnrot

Finnish folklorist

Alecsandri, Vasile

Vasile Alecsandri

Romanian author

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Aleksandr Afanasev

Russian historian and scholar

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Johann Rudolf Wyss

Swiss writer and editor

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Vilmos Diószegi

Hungarian folklorist, linguist, and ethnographer

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Ovid Densușianu

Romanian author

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John Brand

English writer

Achim von Arnim, oil painting by an unknown artist

Achim von Arnim

German writer

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F. Reinhold Kreutzwald

Estonian physician, folklorist, and poet

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

American author

Elsie Clews Parsons.

Elsie Clews Parsons

American anthropologist

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Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar

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Bernard Binlin Dadié

Ivorian author

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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