Herbert Halpert
Biographic Data
| ID | 330354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herbert Halpert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpert |
| SIGNATURE | HALPERT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Coming into Folklore More than Fifty Years Ago
During the Great Depression, while employed on various projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), I became a self-taught collector ofchildlore and folksong texts. As a part-time graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I learned about studying folklore in its cultural context and how to collect songs with recording machines. The high point ofmy fieldwork experience came when I toured the South to record folksongs for the…
Mosquitoes on the Runway
Folklore Sampler
"The Cut-Off Head Frozen On": Some International Versions of a Tall Tale
C'est l'étude comparative d'un conte de mensonge dont la première version terre-neuvienne date d'environ 1795. Par une journée froide d'hiver, un homme est décapité mais à cause du gel, la tête reste attachée au corps, laissant l'homme indemne. Cependant, lorsque son cou dégèle, la tête tombe. Ce conte n'est signalé ni dans The Types of the Folktale d'Aarne-Thompson, ni dans le Motif-Index de Thompson.Trois textes de la Renaissance — allemand, fr…
Replies to Forsyth and Clement
If either Miss Simpson or I had been interested in showing our wide learning, I suspect we could have done so. I have been coll cti g ferences t the topsy-turvy world as it relat s t folktales, the English folk play, Schlaraf enland, and so forth, fo far too many years. I carefully eschewed a long list of irrelevant references i my paper, and I think Miss Simpson also tried to restrict herself to the terms she set. But I might have adde , for exa…
Weather Dites Project
Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland
Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland: Essays in Anthropology, Folklore, and History
Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland: Essays in Anthropology, Folklore and History
Traditional Ballads and Folk-Songs Mainly from West Virginia
Folklore and Obscenity: Definitions and Problems
Hope Diamond
Tom Dula's Grave
Folklore: Breadth versus Depth
The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales
The Folktale: A Symposium
Three Maine Legends
Some Undeveloped Areas in American Folklore
Rhymed Proverbial Comparisons
Chain Letters
George Washington's Father Wasn't There
"Shakespeare, Abelard, and "The Unquiet Grave
Some Wellerisms from Kentucky and Tennessee
We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
Who Blowed up the Church House and Other Ozark Folk Tales
Coming into Folklore More than Fifty Years Ago
During the Great Depression, while employed on various projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), I became a self-taught collector ofchildlore and folksong texts. As a part-time graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I learned about studying folklore in its cultural context and how to collect songs with recording machines. The high point ofmy fieldwork experience came when I toured the South to record folksongs for the…
Mosquitoes on the Runway
Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland: Essays in Anthropology, Folklore, and History
Folklore and Obscenity: Definitions and Problems
Songs of the Hill-Folk; More Songs of the Hill-Folk; Ballads, Carols, and Tragic Legends from the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Some Ballads and Folk Songs from New Jersey
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Traditional Music of America
Folksongs of Roanoke and the Albemarle
The Cante Fable in New Jersey
Folk-Songs from the Kentucky Highlands
Ballads, Love-Songs and Tragic Legends
A Note on Haney's Bibliography of Paul Bunyan
Negro Riddles Collected in New Jersey
Tall Tales and Other Yarns from Calgary, Alberta
Pennsylvania Fairylore and Folktales
Three Tales from Gwent
"Singing Game Variants of "The Sleeping Beauty
Proverbial Comparisons from Idaho Territory
Cold Weather Comments
A Beggar Man Laid Him down to Sleep
The Blue Hen's Chickens
FEW REPORTS of the phrases the blue hen and the blue hen's chickens have hitherto been given from oral sources in America. Three works on colloquial speech agree on the primary meaning of these expressions: the blue hen is the nickname for the state of Delaware; blue hen's chickens is used for soldiers or natives of the state.' The origin of these nicknames was the insistence of an American officer in the Revolutionary War, a Captain Caldwell fro…
Cold Weather Comments Again
Some Forms of a Proverbial Rhyme
A Guide to American Folklore
We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
Who Blowed up the Church House and Other Ozark Folk Tales
Rhymed Proverbial Comparisons
Chain Letters
History (38 works) · Art (21 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (14 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Folklore (8 works) · Poetry (6 works) · Ballad (5 works)