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Brings to life the story of Bijan, a brave young knight from the ancient land of Persia, and his star-crossed lover, Manijeh, princess of an enemy kingdom. This story has been rendered into films, operas, and plays. It is rich in symbolism and filled with acts of heroism, secret potions, and the king's all-knowing golden cup.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• The Political, Ideological & Cultural Background
• Saving the Folklore of Ireland
• The Irish Folklore Commission: Founding & Re-Establishment
• The Commission's Collectors & Collections
• The Work of Head Office
• The Seeds of Discontent
• An Assessment of Aspects of the Commission's Work
• Conclusion
• Glossary of Terms.
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Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world's largest folklore collections. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors that had a bearing on the establishment and making permanent of the Commission and that impinged on many aspects of its work are here elucidated. This study also deals with the working methods and conditions of employment of the Commission's field and Head Office staff as well with Seamus O Duilearga's direction of the Commission. This work should be of interest not only to students of Irish oral tradition but to folklorists everywhere. The history of the Irish Folklore Commission is a part of a wider history, that of the history of folkloristics in Europe and North America in particular. Moreover, the Irish Folklore Commission maintained contacts with scholars on all five continents, and this work has relevance for many areas of the developing world today, where conditions are not dissimilar to those that pertained in Ireland in the 1930's when this great salvage operation was funded by the young, independent Irish state.
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When the Bird of Darkness takes Princess Marie, twin brothers Soliday, who is brave and kind, and Salacota, who is cowardly, set off to fight the beast and rescue the princess.

• Hooked on Texas / Clarence Jay Faulkner
• Beware of folklore addiction / Scott Hill Bumgardner
• McDade and me / Vicky Rose
• Mother lodes of Mexican lore / Lucy Fischer West
• Bibliography of Mexican-American folklore articles / Lucy Fischer West
• Dobie's disciples and the Choctaw Five / Tim Tingle
• The Texas Folklore Society was part of my life, long before I knew It / Jean Granberry Schnitz
• The family nature of the Texas Folklore Society / Kenneth L. Untiedt
• Collecting and reading folklore / James Ward Lee
• Books of the TFS / Len Ainsworth
• Texas booklore: if it ain't folklore, then what the he(ck) is it? / Al Lowman
• How I came to be a publisher of Texas Folklore Society Publications / Frances Brannen Vick
• An enduring relationship: the Texas Folklore Society and folk music / L. Patrick Hughes
• African Americans and Texas folklore / Bruce A. Glasrud
• Geococcyx / Charles Chupp
• Pecos Bill and his pedigree / Charles Clay Doyle
• Funerals and folklore: a snapshot from 1909 / Jerry B. Lincecum
• How the TFS has influenced me as a writer, but more importantly, what it has meant to me as a listener / Elmer Kelton
• Women in the Texas Folklore Society / Peggy A. Redshaw
• Between a rock and a hard place: reflections on the TFS and a writing life / Joyce Gibson Roach
• Back in the ought 'sixties / Francis Edward Abernethy
• The Alford homeplace: deconstructing a dogtrot / Sue M. Friday
• Mexican and Mexican-American folk healers: continuing to nourish our sense of humanity into the twenty-first century / Meredith E. Abarca
• Keeping the flames burning and passing them on: hoots at TFS meetings / Kenneth W. Davis
• The Texas Folklore Society: getting there is half the fun / Lee Haile
• Folklore society memories / Archie P. McDonald
• Confessions of a folklore junkie / Charlie Oden
• Hooked / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
• 1968: one family's folklore odyssey / Sarah L. Greene
• My first TFS meeting / J. Rhett Rushing
• Looking back with the Hansons / Carol Hanson
• Under the influence / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan.

The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society's members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.
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• "Back in the day" : reflections on times passed: Use It up. Wear It out. Make It do. Do without / Linda Wolff ; Growing up in the goat pen / Lora B. Davis Garrison ; The wheels of our lives / Scott Hill Bumgardner ; Back then / Archie P. McDonald ; I'm here to tell you!: family vignettes from the Depression era / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan ; A Czech way of business / Lori Najvar ; Some recollections of defining events / Al Lowman
• Texas music: "Hell in Texas": crossing between sin and salvation in Texas folk songs / Ken Baake ; Buddy Holly, Beethoven, and Lubbock in the 1950s / Paul H. Carlson ; Waltz across Texas: an exploration of the music in the German and Czech dance halls of South Central Texas and the bands that played the music / Carol Bolland ; The music of Ruby Allmond / Jerry B. Lincecum ; Songs of the Depression / Francis Edward Abernethy ; "July 4, 1976": a folktale from the Helotes settlement / John Igo
• Legends in their time; and ours still: Frances Lane and Mattie Felker: two legendary ladies of Texas / Mike Felker and Liz Brandt ; The evolution of a family epic / Donna Ingham ; Lon Goldstein and the Gainesville owls / Kit Chase ; Russell Lee's Texas photographs / Carla Ellard ; Américo Paredes, border anthropologist / Manuel F. Medrano ; Sages, pundits, and spinners / James Ward Lee ; James and John: wild and crazy apostles of the TFS West / Jim Harris
• Everything but the kitchen sink : ghosts, legends, language, and other lore: ghost stories and legends of Old San Patricio / J. Michael Sullivan ; The widow's revenge: the genesis and development of a tale in Bell County / Kenneth W. Davis ; Tip to tip: legendary Texas Longhorns / Henry Wolff, Jr. ; The Aurora airship crash of 1897 / Jo Virgil ; The hidfolk of Texas / Claire Campbell ; Curses! ("!?*#ZX?@") / Jean Granberry Schnitz ; Monsters in Texas / J. Rhett Rushing ; The folklore of plants: growing up in the Hill Country / Acayla Haile ; High art versus the oral tradition / Gene Young ; The Hispanic shaman / Charles B. Martin.

"The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don't really think there's any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members-young members, many of whom are college or even high school students. "These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right alongside some of our oldest members. We've also had long-time members who've been around for years but had never yet given papers; thankfully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, fulfilling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest. "You'll find in this book some of the best articles from those presentations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic `widow's revenge' tale. These works-and the people who produced them-represent the secret behind the history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as its future."-Kenneth L. Untiedt.
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