Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

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2017     Gef! The strange tale of an extra-special talking mongoose by Christopher Josiffe
2016     Witchcraft and folk belief in the Age of the Enlightenment : Scotland, 1670-1740 by Lizanne Henderson
2015     Black magic and bogeymen : fear, rumour and popular belief in the north of Ireland 1972-74 by Richard Jenkins
2014     The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts by David Atkinson
2013     The legend of Spring-Heeled Jack : Victorian urban folklore and popular cultures by Karl Bell
2012     Voices of the people in nineteenth-century France by David Hopkin
2011     Folk tales, tall tales, trickster tales, and legends of the supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey
recorded between 1936 and 1951 and annotated by Herbert Halpert ; edited by J.D.A. Widdowson ; with the assistance of Violetta M. Halpert and Carl Withers ; with a new preface by Carl Lindahl
2010     Played at the pub : the pub games of Britain by Arthur Taylor
2009     The musical playground : global tradition and change in children's songs and games by Kathryn Marsh
2008     Welsh furniture 1250-1950 : a cultural history of craftsmanship and design by Richard Bebb
2007     Why fairy tales stick : the evolution and relevance of a genre by Jack Zipes
2006     Magic and impotence in the Middle Ages by Catherine Rider
2005     Explore fairy traditions by Jeremy Harte
2004     The Penguin guide to the superstitions of Britain and Ireland by Steve Roud
2003     The secret Middle Ages by Malcolm Jones
2002     Death, memory, and material culture by Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey
2001     Oral and literate culture in England, 1500-1700 by Adam Fox
2000     Locating Irish folklore : tradition, modernity, identity by Diarmuid O'Giollain
1999     No go the bogeyman : scaring, lulling, and making mock by Marina Warner
1998     Conversing with angels and ancients : literary myths of medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy
1997     Material conflicts : parades and visual displays in Northern Ireland by Neil Jarman
1996     Breton ballads by Mary-Ann Constantine
1995     Flamenco deep song by Timothy Mitchell
1994     Irish country furniture, 1700-1950 by Claudia Kinmonth
1993     The imagined village : culture, ideology, and the English folk revival by Georgina Boyes
1992     Customs in common by E. P. Thompson
1991     Rites of marrying : the wedding industry in Scotland by Simon Charsley
1990     Blues fell this morning : meaning in the blues by Paul Oliver
1989     In search of the Indo-Europeans : language, archaeology, and myth by J. P. Mallory
1988     Myths and symbols in pagan Europe : early Scandinavian and Celtic religions by Hilda Ellis Davidson
1987     Storytelling rights : the uses of oral and written texts by urban adolescents by Amy SHUMAN
1986     The singing game by lona and Peter Opie
1985     Theory and history of folklore by Vladimir Propp ; translation from the Russian by Ariadna Y. and Richard P. Martin ; edited, with an introduction and notes by Anatoly Liberman
1984     A social history of the fool by Sandra Billington
1983     Village song and culture by Michael Pickering
1982     Wives for sale : an ethnographic study of British popular divorce by Samuel Pyeatt Menefee