Folktales

398 Folklore includes

398.2 Folk literature
398.6 Riddles
398.8 Rhyming games
398.9 Proverbs
Did you get the folktale quest? Go directly to 398.2 and browse. We have three to four hundred folklore books in the J room, many of them beautifully illustrated.

But did you ever spend an hour or so looking through the 398 reference books?

Folklore on the American land edited by Emrich, Duncan (R 398 E55) includes urban legends, riddles, songs
The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes edited by Iona and Peter Opie (Both R 398 O61 and J-R 398.8 OPIE Different Deweys in the same library? Yes. Different catalogers at different times. 398.8 is the correct one.)
Dictionary of folklore, mythology and legend (R 398.03 F982) 2 volumes
The Greenwood encyclopedia of world folklore and folklife edited by William M. Clements (R 398.03 GREENWO) 4 volumes, new
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American folklore edited by Anand Prahlad (R 398.089 GREENWO) 3 volumes, new
Encyclopedia of urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand (R 398.2 BRUNVAN)
The Greenwood Library of American folktales edited by Thomas A. Green (R 398.2 GREENWO)
American folklore : an encyclopedia edited by Jan Harold Brunvand (R 398.209 AMERICA)
Atlas of the mysterious in North America, Rosemary Ellen Guiley (R 398.2097 GUILEY)
Spirits, fairies, gnomes, and goblins : an encyclopedia of the little people, Carol Rose (R 398.2103 ROSE)
Encyclopedia of traditional epics, Guida M. Jackson (R 398.22 JACKSON)
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Encyclopedia of fable, Mary Ellen Snodgrass (J-R 398.203 SNODGRA)
Random House dictionary of popular proverbs and sayings, Gregory Titelman (J-R 398.9 TITELMA)
Maryland folklore and folklife, George Carey Gibson (two copies - MD-R 398.2 and J-R 398.2)