• Linda Dégh (18 March 1918 – 19 August 2014) was a folklorist and professor of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, USA. Dégh was born in...
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  • one?" The concept was applied to contemporary legends by folklorists Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi, who argued that the most direct form of ostension...
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    ancient shamanistic practices. In particular, Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh, based on an analysis of ca. 70 variants of Hungary and nearby countries...
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    From https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm007.html Dégh 1979, pp. 94–96 Zipes 1988, p. 25 Tatar 2010 Dégh 1979, pp. 99–101 Copeland, Libby (29 February 2012)...
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    legends about drugs Theorists and analysis Jan Harold Brunvand Hoax Slayer Linda Dégh Gary Alan Fine Patricia Turner Snopes TV series Beyond Belief: Fact or...
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    Volkskunde 3 (1925, reprinted 1969) Charles L. Perdue Jt., reviewing Linda Dégh and Andrew Vászony's essay "The crack on the red goblet or truth and the...
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    African Americans in popular culture. She is the 2021 recipient of the Linda Dégh Lifetime Achievement Award. Turner was vice provost for undergraduate...
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    and protest, to guard and protect, and to reward the living. Folklorist Linda Dégh observed in her 2001 work Legend and belief the following: The legend...
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    script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Folklorist Linda Dégh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams' film Capricorn One (1978),...
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  • translator, expert on Tlingit history and language, pancreatic cancer. Linda Dégh, 94, Hungarian-born American folklorist and academic. Joe Edwards, 59...
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  • Kígyókirályfi) is a Hungarian folk tale collected by Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh, featuring the marriage between a human maiden and a husband in serpent...
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    "Salvatica"; and AaTh 710, "Our Lady's Child". Hungarian-American folklorist Linda Dégh and Stith Thompson also remarked on the closeness between types 450 and...
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  • Edward D. Ives and John F. Szwed, Folksongs and Their Makers, 1970. with Linda Dégh and Felix Oinas, eds., Folklore Today: A Festschrift for Richard M. Dorson...
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    der Raab,[citation needed] near the Slovenian and Hungarian borders. Dégh, Linda (2001-11-14). Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre. Indiana...
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    Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, p 641, ISBN 0-393-97636-X Linda Degh, "What Did the Grimm Brothers Give To and Take From the Folk?" p 76 James...
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  • the Middle East and southern Europe)." As Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh put it, "(...) the Orange Maiden (AaTh 408) becomes a princess. She is...
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    Gammerdinger, Harry (1980). Folklore on Two Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Dégh. Trickster Press. ISBN 978-0-915305-01-8. Latin for the New Millennium:...
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  • and the Baltic Countries. In the same vein, Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh stated that the type was "particularly widespread" in the Central and...
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  • and the Baltic Countries. In the same vein, Hungarian-American scholar Linda Dégh stated that the type was "particularly widespread" in the Central and...
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  • included Marius Barbeau, Franz Boas, Ben Botkin, Jan Harold Brunvand, Linda Dégh, Ella Deloria, William Ferris, John Miles Foley, Joel Chandler Harris...
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    that these traits seem to recall an Iranian deity of vegetation. Scholar Linda Dégh suggested a common origin for tale types ATU 403 ("The Black and the White...
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  • legends about drugs Theorists and analysis Jan Harold Brunvand Hoax Slayer Linda Dégh Gary Alan Fine Patricia Turner Snopes TV series Beyond Belief: Fact or...
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    legends about drugs Theorists and analysis Jan Harold Brunvand Hoax Slayer Linda Dégh Gary Alan Fine Patricia Turner Snopes TV series Beyond Belief: Fact or...
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  • professor of Spanish & Portuguese literature, University of Kansas. Linda Dégh, distinguished professor of folklore, Indiana University. Paul M. de Man...
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  • Stephens (2005). Living Folklore, p. 31. Utah / Utah State University Press. Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi (1975). "Hypothesis of Multi-Conduit Transmission...
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  • RECIPIENT OF THE LINDA DÉGH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD". contemporarylegend.org. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2022. "The Linda Dégh Lifetime Achievement...
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    dedicated to comparative mythology. His contributions have led folklorist Linda Dégh to deem him "one of the pioneers in classifying folktales according to...
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    magical power of each horse. Hungarian scholars János Berze Nágy and Linda Dégh saw a possible connection between the copper, silver and golden horses...
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