Story telling

Category Editor: Dave Arthur

Here are some initial Storytelling categories. More will be added as the site develops.

British Isles

• England

• Scotland

• Ireland

• Wales

USA and Canada

• Appalachia

• Cape Breton Island

• Newfoundland

Australia

• Everywhere!

Storytellers: Traditional

• England

• Scotland

• Ireland

• Wales

• America

• Canada

• Australia

Storytellers: Revival

• England

• Scotland

• Ireland

• Wales

• America

• Canada

• Australia

Types of the Folktale

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Modern Legend

• Folktale (Fairy Tale, Marchen)

• Aetiological (Pourquoi tales)

• Tale Tales

• Bawdy

• Trickster

• Ghost stories

• Cante fable

Storytelling in Education

• Storytelling and literacy

• Storytelling clubs

• Storytelling in the classroom

Therapeutic Storytelling

• Bereavement

• Healing

Societies and Organisations

• Society for Storytelling

• Folklore Society

• Mythstories Museum of Storytelling

• Emerson College

• Scottish Storytelling Centre

• George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling

• Department of Irish Folklore

• British Broadcasting Corporation

• School of Scottish Studies

Folktale Scholarship

• Catherine Briggs

• Jack Zipes

• Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger

• Dr Alan Bruford

• Hamish Henderson

Books and bibliographies

Watch this space!

Magazines/Journals

• Storylines

• Facts and Fiction

Recordings

• Traditional performers

• Revival performers

Performance

• Style/technique

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Temporary links

Story Tellers

Irish:

• Patrick Lynch

American:

• Ethel Birchfield
• Hattie Presnell