A Dictionary of English Folklore

From an exemplary, clear and concise introduction to an admirably comprehensive, yet selective, bibliography, but above all from more than 1,250 A‐Z entries in between, it is good to know that Oxford University Press can still commission and publish new standard reference titles. We all think we know what folklore is: but it means varying things to different people, and at different times or in various contexts. That is touched on in the introduction, which itself introduces a welcome degree of scholarly rigour with concentration on demonstrable fact or on assessable evidence, which are often missing from such studies. It...