Archer Taylor
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Archer Taylor's Degrees
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Archer Taylor was one of America's "foremost specialists in American and European folklore", with a special interest in cultural history, literature, proverbs, riddles and bibliography. Early life and education Taylor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1890.
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Published Works
- The Oxford dictionary of English proverbs (1937) (128)
- Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend (1952) (80)
- The Proverb and an Index to the Proverb (1964) (55)
- English riddles from oral tradition (1977) (52)
- General Subject-Indexes Since 1548 (1966) (44)
- Proverbial Comparisons and Similes from California (1954) (30)
- Sumerian Proverbs. Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (1959) (30)
- The King and the Corpse (1949) (20)
- The Road to Hel (1944) (19)
- The Biographical Pattern in Traditional Narrative (1964) (18)
- Folktales of Ireland (1966) (16)
- Problems in the Study of Proverbs (1934) (16)
- The bibliographical history of anonyma and pseudonyma (1951) (12)
- Selected writings on proverbs (1975) (10)
- The Literary Riddle Before 1600 (1949) (9)
- A dictionary of American proverbs and proverbial phrases, 1820-1880 (1958) (8)
- Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks (1951) (7)
- Characteristics of German Folklore Studies (1961) (6)
- Yiddish Language and Folklore: A Selective Bibliography for Research (1960) (5)
- Riddles Dealing with Family Relationships (1938) (5)
- Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle (1946) (5)
- The future of cable TV (1969) (5)
- Lore of the Lumber Camps (1950) (4)
- An annotated collection of Mongolian riddles (1955) (4)
- The Place of Folklore (1952) (4)
- 'The Proverb' and an Index to 'The Proverb' (1964) (4)
- Racial Proverbs. A Selection of the World's Proverbs Arranged Linguistically (1941) (4)
- Precursors of the Finnish Method of Folk-Lore Study (1928) (3)
- A bibliography of riddles (1939) (3)
- A Classification of Formula Tales (1933) (3)
- The Black ox (1980) (3)
- The Nuremberg Schembart Carnival (1942) (3)
- The Death of Ǫrvar Oddr (1921) (3)
- The Use of Proper Names in Wellerisms and Folk Tales (1959) (3)
- The Predestined Wife (Mt. 930) (1959) (3)
- Raw Head and Bloody Bones (1956) (3)
- Mother Goose on the Rio Grande (1944) (3)
- California Folklore Quarterly (1943) (3)
- Wellerisms and Riddles (1960) (3)
- “Audi, Vide, Tace,” and the Three Monkeys (1958) (2)
- The Tarbaby Once More (1944) (2)
- II.—“The Devil and the Advocate” (1921) (2)
- Studies in folklore, in honor of Distinguished Service Professor Stith Thompson (1959) (2)
- The Problems of Folklore (1946) (2)
- American Indian Riddles (1944) (2)
- German Folksongs in Spain (1959) (2)
- Proverbial Comparisons in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher (1957) (2)
- More Proverbial Comparisons from California (1958) (2)
- A history of bibliographies of bibliographies (1955) (2)
- Motif-Index of Lithuanian Narrative Folklore (1937) (2)
- Community Television Systems (1956) (2)
- Serbocroatian Heroic Songs. Vol. I. Novi Pazar: English Translations. (1955) (2)
- Christmas Carols Printed in the Sixteenth Century (1933) (2)
- 1200 Russian Proverbs (1962) (1)
- "Or Est Venuz Qui Aunera" and the English Proverbial Phrase "To Take his Measure" (1950) (1)
- Special Issue on Cable Television (1969) (1)
- Studies in the History of Modern Greek Story-Motives (1954) (1)
- Forty-Five Tales from the Dodekanese (1951) (1)
- : German Baroque Literature: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Yale University Library (1959) (1)
- Catalogues of rare books : a chapter in bibliographical history (1958) (1)
- Grete's Bad Name (1943) (1)
- 'God's Acre' Once More (1952) (1)
- Dane Hew, Munk of Leicestre (1917) (1)
- The Themes Common to English and German Balladry (1940) (1)
- Report of the Committee on Award of the Haskins Medal (1943) (1)
- The "Dream-Bread" Story Once More (1921) (1)
- The English, Scottish, and American Versions of the 'Twa Sisters' (1929) (1)
- Lists and Classifications of Folksongs (1968) (1)
- Journal of the International Folk Music Council, IV (1953) (1)
- Annamese, Arabic, and Panjabi Riddles (1945) (1)
- The Semantics of 'Child' (1929) (1)
- Some Recent Arthurian Studies (1939) (1)
- 'A Library for Younger Schollers': Compiled by an English Scholar-Priest about 1655 (1962) (1)
- An Introductory Bibliography for the Study of Proverbs (1932) (1)
- The child's book of folklore (1947) (1)
- An Ordnance-Map of Feminine Charms (1948) (1)
- Technical Performance of Community Antenna Television Systems (1966) (1)
- The Man, the Horse, and the Canary (1943) (1)
- On-Channel Carriage of Local TV Stations on CATV (1969) (1)
- Studies in Cheremis folklore (1954) (1)
- Attila and Modern Riddles (1943) (1)
- More Examples of an Obscure Manner of Riddling (1957) (1)
- The Buried Lover Escapes (1961) (1)
- A Punning Riddle or Jest (1963) (1)
- In the Evening Praise the Day (1921) (1)
- The Judas Curse (1)
- A Long-Sought Parallel Comes to Light (1957) (1)
- A Theory of Indo-European Marchen (1931) (1)
- Another Story of Buried Gold (1944) (1)
- Polish Riddles from Michigan (1949) (1)
- Investigations of English Proverbs, Proverbial and Conventional Phrases, Oaths, and Cliches (1952) (1)
- An Allusion to a Riddle in Suetonius (1945) (1)
- The literary history of Meistergésang (1937) (1)
- Volume Information (1950) (1)
- Twenty-Five Years of Folklore Study in the West (1966) (1)
- A Riddle for the Sun, Sky, and Stars (1944) (1)
- "Neither Fish nor Flesh" and Its Variations (1966) (1)
- An Early Form of Baseball in Iceland (1948) (0)
- Primitive Elements in Roman Religion (1932) (0)
- The Texts of " Edward " in Percy's Reliques and Motherwell's Minstrelsy (1930) (0)
- The Customer Is Always Right (1958) (0)
- Ballad Books and Ballad Men: Raids and Rescues in Britain, America, and the Scandinavian North since 1800. Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt (1933) (0)
- Volume Information (1937) (0)
- Turkish Riddles from the Taurus Mountains (1958) (0)
- A Lithuanian Formula Tale (1946) (0)
- Recent Developments in Folk Atlases (1965) (0)
- Volume Information (1936) (0)
- No House Is Big Enough for Two Women (1957) (0)
- Volume Information (1940) (0)
- 3. Classified Subject-Indexes in the Sixteenth Century (1966) (0)
- Volume Information (1929) (0)
- Surnames. Ernest Weekley (1937) (0)
- Some Americanisms in James Hall, "Legends of the West" (Philadelphia, 1833) (1959) (0)
- The Ballad of Tradition@@@'Edward' and 'Sven i Rosengard' (1933) (0)
- Wellerisms in Colombia (1949) (0)
- The Blind Man, the Lame Man, and the Naked Man (1959) (0)
- The Three Sins of the Hermit (1922) (0)
- Classical Myth and Legend in Renaissance Dictionaries.DeWitt T. Starnes , E. W. Talbert (1956) (0)
- Cinderella a Century Ago (1964) (0)
- Announcements Concerning the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting (1938) (0)
- Volume Information (1938) (0)
- John Braine's Proverbs (1964) (0)
- The Shanghai Gesture in England (1964) (0)
- Printing and progress : two lectures (1941) (0)
- A Hog on Ice (1948) (0)
- 4. Alphabetical Subject-Indexes in the Seventeenth Century (1966) (0)
- Twenty-Three Telugu Riddles from Nellore (1941) (0)
- Ritual Magic. E. M. Butler (1950) (0)
- Volume Information (1935) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1962) (0)
- Growth and System of the Language of Charles Dickens. An Introduction to a Dickens Lexicon (1956) (0)
- The Parallels between Ballads and Tales (1964) (0)
- Sources and Analogues of the Nouvelles Recreations et Joyeux Devis of Bonaventure des Periers, II (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Origin of the Griselda Story. Dudley David Griffith (1933) (0)
- Blue, the Symbol of China (1959) (0)
- A collection of Irish riddles (1956) (0)
- Riddles around the World (1946) (0)
- A Folk Song Chapbook (1956) (0)
- One for the Cutworm (1958) (0)
- Some Western Words (1962) (0)
- "Hunting," an Early Americanism (1964) (0)
- 1. The Nature and Arrangement of Subject-Indexes (1966) (0)
- Memoir of Tom Peete Cross (1952) (0)
- The Emperor's New Clothes (1927) (0)
- "No Soap!" Once More (1961) (0)
- Some Japanese Proverbial Comparisons (1956) (0)
- Hans-Karl Schuchard, Der Minnesänger Otto von Botenlauben.: Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, 1940. (The publisher, who is not mentioned on the title page is Times and News Publishing Co., Gettysburg, Pa.) 89 pp. (1940) (0)
- Bibliografia critica del folklore paraguayo (1962) (0)
- The Collection and Study of Tales and Proverbs (1971) (0)
- Volume Information (1928) (0)
- The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography. Theodore Besterman (1945) (0)
- Valentin Ernst Loescher's "Literator Celta" (1945) (0)
- An Armenian Riddle of an Eggplant (1942) (0)
- Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature: A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century. Frederick Herbert Wagman (1943) (0)
- La comparaison dans la chanson populaire grecque@@@Parallel Proverbs in English, German and Hebrew@@@A Book of English Idioms with Explanations (1957) (0)
- Dutch in Proverbial and Conventional Use (1952) (0)
- Some Recent Trends in "Marchen" Anthologies (1968) (0)
- Ozark Folksongs, III: Humorous and Play-Party Songs (1949) (0)
- Book Review:The Art of Dying Well: The Development of the "Ars moriendi" Mary Catherine O'Connor (1943) (0)
- Ozark Folksongs, Vol. I (1947) (0)
- The Stella Maris of John of Garland. E. F. WilsonGloses marginales des 'Miracles' de Gautier de Coinci. Veikko Väänänen (1947) (0)
- A collection of Welsh riddles (1944) (0)
- Spick and Span (1964) (0)
- Ozark Folksongs, II: Songs of the South and West (1948) (0)
- 6. Subject-Indexes in the Nineteenth Century (1966) (0)
- Americanisms Current in 1845 (1958) (0)
- Death Valley Legend (1945) (0)
- Volume Information (1926) (0)
- Book Review:Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads Lowry Charles Wimberly (1929) (0)
- ”What Bird Would You Choose to Be?“ — a Medieval Tale (1965) (0)
- The Blind Man, the Armless Man, the Legless Man, and the Naked Man (1964) (0)
- Gabriel Naudé, 1600-1653. James V. Rice (1940) (0)
- Ozark Folksongs. Volume IV (1950) (0)
- An Old-World Tale from Minnesota (1918) (0)
- 5. Subject-Indexes in the Eighteenth Century (1966) (0)
- Sneezing: A Sign of Good Luck (1961) (0)
- Volume Information (1945) (0)
- Fun in American Folk Rhymes (1953) (0)
- A Man Must Live (1962) (0)
- The Hidden Costs of 400 MHz (1980) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Sumerian Proverbs: Glimpses of Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Edmund I. Gordon (1961) (0)
- A Superstition or Custom concerning Birch Trees (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Modern Greek in Asia Minor R. M. Dawkins (1918) (0)
- The American Mother Goose (1942) (0)
- Trovas Populares de Alagoas (1953) (0)
- "Pedro!" (California Folklore Quarterly, III, 277-283) (1947) (0)
- Biblical Conundrums in the "Golden Era" (1946) (0)
- Adolf Taylor Starck (1918) (0)
- Four Symposia on Folklore: International Folklore Conference Indiana University, July 21-August 4, 1950 (1954) (0)
- Books Cited by Authors' Names or Short Titles (1966) (0)
- Comparative studies in folklore : Asia--Europe--America (1972) (0)
- Snakes in Virginia (1958) (0)
- What Goes Through Water and is not Wet (1936) (0)
- Release from Execution at a Woman's Request or by Marriage to Her (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Christmas Carols Printed in the Sixteenth Century, Including Kele's "Christmas Carolles Newly Inprynted," Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy in the Huntington Library Edward Bliss Reed (1935) (0)
- A Riddle for Ashes (1955) (0)
- Drift-bottle clues (1944) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1967) (0)
- Book Review:Kultische Geheimbunde der Germanen, Vol. I Otto Hofler (1935) (0)
- Philip Schuyler Allen 1871-1937 (1937) (0)
- A Contamination in "Lord Randal" (1931) (0)
- Eddic Mythology. John Arnott MacCulloch (1934) (0)
- Index II. Typical Materials Cited in Subject-Indexes (1966) (0)
- Volume Information (1948) (0)
- Superstitions of Publishing Houses (1946) (0)
- The Realness of Witchcraft in America (1943) (0)
- Volume Information (1930) (0)
- 7. Subject-Indexes in the Twentieth Century (1966) (0)
- The Dance of Death. Florence WarrenThe Physician of the Dance of Death. Aldred Scott Warthin (1933) (0)
- Volume Information (1931) (0)
- A Parallel to the Rosengarten Theme (1916) (0)
- Book Review:The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs William George Smith (1936) (0)
- The Ballad of Tradition. Gordon Hall Gerould (1933) (0)
- A False Alarm (1963) (0)
- The Mandrake, a Bibliographical Note (1921) (0)
- The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. James M. Clark (1951) (0)
- Who's it? (1956) (0)
- Book Review:The 'Adages' of Erasmus. A Study with Translations Margaret Mann Phillips, Erasmus (1966) (0)
- Jaarboek, Nationale Commissie voor Folklore (1952) (0)
- Index I. Compilers of Subject-Indexes and Kindred Works (1966) (0)
- Americanisms in "The Log of a Cowboy" (1959) (0)
- 2. Subject-Indexes Based on the Bible (1966) (0)
- Schmulowitz Collection of Jestbooks (1956) (0)
- Jump Rope Rhymes (1959) (0)
- Notes on the Wandering Jew (1918) (0)
- A Tall Tale of Cherry Picking (1945) (0)
- The Early English Carols. Richard Leighton Greene (1936) (0)
- Renaissance guides to books : an inventory and some conclusions (1945) (0)
- Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Volume III (1952) (0)
- Edwin H. Zeydel, The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant: Translated into Rhyming Couplets with Introduction and Commentary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. Pp. x, 399. (1945) (0)
- Studies in Cheremis: Vol. VI: Games (1958) (0)
- Book Review:Balor with the Evil Eye. Studies in Celtic and French Literature Alexander Haggerty Krappe (1928) (0)
- The Months without an R in Their Names (1962) (0)
- Fifteenth Century Books and the Twentieth Century: An Address by Curt F. Bühler, and a Catalogue of an Exhibition of Fifteenth Century Books Held at the Grolier Club, April 15-June 1, 1952. (1953) (0)
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