He took a position in Repton as a teacher and began collecting folktales of the Romani people.
Despite Elliot Hemmons's efforts to curtail personal research I've been able to spend the last five years collecting folktales in a quiet medieval village.
While at the University of Kentucky, he began collecting folktales from his students and their families.
Along with collecting and compiling folktales, Seki also arranged them into a series of categories.
His last years were spent in intensive writing and research, collecting Jewish legends and folktales and publishing in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German.
In addition, he collected folktales, proverbs, ballads, and other lore, which were published in the California Folklore Quarterly in the 1940s.
Researchers travelled across the country collecting innummerable folktales, songs and sayings while observing traditional dress in the various regions.
He collected folktales, folk songs, proverbs, superstitions, riddles, children's games, and much more.
She has collected oral histories and folktales from elderly Mexican Americans, many of them born in Arizona or Sonora, Mexico.
The English writer Arthur Ransome, in Russia to collect folktales, stays to observe events, becoming a correspondent for the Daily News.
