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Ansky, S.
S. Ansky
Russian writer
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius
Lithuanian author
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish folklorist
Alecsandri, Vasile
Vasile Alecsandri
Romanian author
Aleksandr Afanasev
Russian historian and scholar
Johann Rudolf Wyss
Swiss writer and editor
Vilmos Diószegi
Hungarian folklorist, linguist, and ethnographer
Achim von Arnim, oil painting by an unknown artist
Achim von Arnim
German writer
Ovid Densușianu
Romanian author
F. Reinhold Kreutzwald
Estonian physician, folklorist, and poet
John Brand
English writer
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
Vasily Radlov.
Vasily Radlov
German anthropologist
Birago Diop
Senegalese author
Arnold van Gennep
French anthropologist

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Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales Quiz
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Folklore of the British Isles Quiz