Folkloristics: An Introduction

Its a great book, I love to keep reading it.

Somewhat helpful overview. I'm a graduate student taking an exam in folklore without much coursework to prepare me, and I found this useful for helping me pull together the concepts I was reading about in other places. At the same time, it provides lots of examples, and yet not in enough depth that I would cite this source for those examples. Since you'll need to do research on examples anyway, it might make more sense to wade through Toelken's The Dynamics of Folklore or check out Lynne McNeill's Folklore Rules.