(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best folklore & mythology studies

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Ironic how this sub is about reading, yet only 1 answer at this point actually makes any attempt to answer OP's question in the slightest.

OP: Your best bet is to find your nearest university library and look in their catalog. There are TONS of books about vampire lore from various disciplines, particularly anthropology and film.

I've seen this as a textbook, but haven't read it myself: Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture. Also The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, but that may be more about history of vampires rather than the lore itself.

Your local library can get you pretty much any book you want via interlibrary loan.

I have a book called simply 'Germany' by Lewis Spence, which may be what you're looking for. I haven't read it, and I don't know much about Germany, so I don't know if it's what you want :)

>Nibelung, that kind of thing

There is a chapter on Nibelungenlied.

This is the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Germany-Myths-Legends-Lewis-Spence/dp/1851700137

It will be public domain, so you can probably find a free digital version.

I haven't read it (but a folklorist-classmate of mine did and highly recommended it), but this book might interest you.

If you can find this book for me I'd be really great!
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mythology-Contemporary-Approaches-Classical/dp/0190262982/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N8Q6AHGQSJ4VFQMFRZXY
And if not thanks anyway man

>Organology? I had to look it up. It’s not in the dictionary, or at least only listed as a definition for the study of organs in the body (biology related). Sounded like the study of the organ (the instrument) at first.

I'd hate to tell you to Google it, but these are the first, second, and fourth results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organology

>Organology (from Greek: ὄργανον – organon, "instrument" and λόγος – logos, "study") is the science of musical instruments and their classification. It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classification.

https://dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/2442-organology

>The science of musical instruments including their classification and development throughout history and cultures as well as the technical study of how they produce sound. The Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification is probably the best-known system in use today.

http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/abstract/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020441

>The study of musical instruments in terms of their history and social function, design, construction and relation to performance.

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>I guess I’m looking more for instrumentation, the anatomy of instruments and how their timbre is applicable to making music.

Yeah, so organology and maybe orchestration/instrumentation. Your choices for the latter are basically reference books. Organology is traditionally a subset of musicology/ethnomusicology. Here are some organological books:

https://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Classical-Period-Albert-Rice/dp/0195342992

https://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Yale-Musical-Instrument/dp/0300102828/

https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Cultures-Andy-Bennett/dp/1859734294

https://www.amazon.com/World-Flutelore-Folktales-Stories-Magical/dp/0252079418

http://www.amazon.com/Pollen-Path-Collection-Navajo-Myths/dp/1885772092/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311985122&sr=1-1


that is a very good book and has a wide variety of stories.

Not a novel, but you might find Benjamin Radford's Bad Clowns worth a look.

A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong. Very coffee table-esque. Also has citations. Also a fun topic that almost everyone will find interesting. Not super general or necessarily what some people think of when you say anthropology. Downside: no glossy photos, at least not in the copy I bought.

I was reluctant to mention the source of this excerpt for a variety of reasons - it is a self-published book intended to get it off my desk before I shuffle on to Buffalo. Most of my books are peer reviewed, but not this one, which is an adaptation of my graduate-school-era translation of the classic work by a dear friend, Elisabeth Hofelich-Hartmann (1912-2004): Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Märchen der Skandinavischen Völker – The Troll Beliefs in the Legends and Folktales of the Scandinavian Folk, a doctoral dissertation, published in 1936 under the direction of Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878-1952) and his former student, Sven S. Liljeblad (1899-2000) - my mentor.

My homage to Dr. Hartmann is titled Trolls: From Scandinavia to Dam Dolls, Tolkien, and Harry Potter. It may be of use to you.

You can buy a used one on Amazon here.

If I'm thinking of the right ones, the author was Aylesworth. Amazon has a listing for Vampires and Other Ghosts by Thomas Aylesworth, but there's not a cover image. https://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Other-Ghosts-Thomas-Aylesworth/dp/0201001578. There is a cover image on the listing for Werewolves and Other Monsters https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N8N8J4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1.

This reminds me a bit of the Pantheon cover of The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales in the 70s and 80s, but it doesn't match exactly. The hardback version had the line drawings of the fairy tale characters in color (you can see it in this Amazon listing here: https://www.amazon.com/Grimms-Wilhelm-Illustrated-Joseph-Scharl/dp/B000I125JA
The paperback version had the line drawings just black and white on eother a white or light blue cover.

Need:
Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190262982/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wkEKBbS4KVHCJ

$5 USD

what is this, vital reading?

Original Wild Ones

Hunter S Thompson Hell's Angels

[Bad Clowns] (https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Clowns-Benjamin-Radford/dp/0826356664/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510191693&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=bad+clowns+ben+radford)

Haven't read it.

The Book of Goddesses

More about skipping rituals in the book, Skipping Around the World: The Ritual Nature of Folk Rhymes.

yeah ... i am not sure i would say that it was a horrible read, but lazy project really fits the bill. you can read the poetic or prose edda in a variety of translations, and other people with more expertise have attempted the same project (i read one a few years ago, think it was penguin). gaiman's verve or flair nowhere really on display, and as mentioned, he is not an academic or an expert (he didn't translate the works).

Edit: Look, Gaiman even blurbed this book! Jeez.