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Folklore

  • Articles (5)
  • Contributors (6)
  • Related subjects (10)

Articles

  • Edgar Waters
    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
  • John Ryan
    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
  • Cecil Hadgraft,
    Elizabeth Webby
    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
  • Keith McKenry
    ‘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
  • Wendy Capper
    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

Contributors

  • Wendy Capper
  • Cecil Hadgraft
  • Keith McKenry
  • John Ryan
  • Edgar Waters
  • Elizabeth Webby

Related subjects

  • A.B. Facey
  • Australian culture
  • Australian myths
  • Authorship
  • Ballads
  • Bush
  • Education
  • Ghosts
  • Heroes
  • Isolation (Emotional & social)
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