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Volume I:Pioneering essays defining the field, including key articles from the nineteenth century (Grimm, Mannhardt, Andrew Lang, etc.)Volume II:The genres of folklore (myth, folktale, legend, folksong, proverb, riddle, superstition, children's games, etc.)Volumes III and IV:Theories and methods (the comparative method, the cartographic method, structuralism, Freudian and Jungian approaches, etc.). Some of these theories and methods are to be found in other disciplines, but their application to folkloristic data is unique.