Works
- A Dictionary of English Folklore (with Steve Roud)
- Everyday Life in the Viking Age
- British Dragons
- European Mythology
- Folklore of Sussex
- Folklore of the Welsh Border
- Green Men and White Swans: The Folklore of British Pub Names, Random House Books (2010) ISBN 1-84794-515-5
- The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys (with Jennifer Westwood) Penguin (2006) ISBN 0-14-102103-9
- Scandinavian Folktales (Penguin Folklore Library / Puffin) with Caroline Gowdy (1989) ISBN 0-14-059505-8
- A dictionary of historical slang (with Eric Partridge)
- Beowulf and Its Analogues (with George Norman Garmonsway and Hilda Ellis Davidson)
- Icelandic Folktales and Legends (Revealing History) 2nd Edition, NPI Media Group, (2004) ISBN 0-7524-3045-9
- The Folklore of Discworld (with Terry Pratchett)
Also cited for disclaiming theories proposed by Margaret Murray.
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Famous quotes containing the word works:
“The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 16:26.
“No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:15,16.
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)