But for contemporary folklorist Lauren Fadiman, folklore and geomythology are also valuable tools for understanding and helping humans adapt to our changing world.
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And according to folklorist Jack Santino, who wrote in a 1982 article for the American Folklife Center, quote, the old beliefs associated with Samhain never died out entirely.
The most telling joke is one that Ruth Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard, attributes to Immanuel Olsvanger, a folklorist who was born in Poland in 1888 and who collected Yiddish humour.
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The Brothers Grimm, like many folklorists since, embarked on a scholarly project to identify and preserve the spirit of the people by recording the fairy tales being told across their culture.
So one of the ways that witchcraft makes its transition into modern culture, and especially popular culture, is through the work of anthropologists, ethnographers, and other theorists of magic, including folklorists.
" The blood-drinker is the one found in six of the seven continents, there's not a doubt at all, " Jonathan Weiss, folklorist, historian and founder of Johnathan Weiss Tours in New Orleans told TODAY.