Folklore
Articles
- Two Australian Folklore Journals
Scholars with an interest in Australian folklore will find a good deal of value to them in two small journals, Singabout and Gunsuckers' Gazette…
1 December 1963 - Ned Kelly: The Flight of the Legend
There were some who were saying Ned was dead. But now a Ned Kelly renaissance is in full flower. The experts are writing about him…
1 October 1967 - More Substance to Fisher’s Ghost?
Hadgraft and Webby account for the legend of Fisher's Ghost, which has its origins in the murder of farmer Frederick Fisher in Campbell Town on…
1 May 1968 - ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’: Discrimination in Australian Folklore Scholarship
The author traces the history of an originally Irish folk song ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’ that never made it into Australian folklore collections. He argues…
1 November 2008 - Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Traditional Oral Narratives
Argues that 'there were features of Bert's world which make it more appropriately thought of as a residually oral culture, and which suggest that a…
1 May 1988