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Bill Ellis

14 works· latest 2015· 1 institutionscluster: provisional

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Most cited in this library

Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds1985 · 612 citations
The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor1984 · 174 citations
Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder1989 · 88 citations
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live2002 · 75 citations
Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre2001 · 68 citations

Works

14 shown

A Model for Collecting and Interpreting World Trade Center Disaster Jokes

Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University)·2015·1 author·Open access

46citations

What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet

Journal of American Folklore·2015·1 author

23citations

Love and War and Anime Art: An Ethnographic Look at a Virtual Community of Collectors

Utah State University Press eBooks·2012·1 author·chapter

14citations

Whispers in an Ice Cream Parlor: Culinary Tourism, Contemporary Legends, and the Urban Interzone

Journal of American Folklore·2009·1 author·Open access

16citations

Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live

Western Folklore·2002·2 authors·Open access

75citations

Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre

Western Folklore·2001·2 authors·Open access

68citations

Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America

Western Folklore·2001·3 authors

32citations

Turandot's Sisters: A Study of the Folktale AT 851

Western Folklore·1994·2 authors

24citations

“The Hook” Reconsidered: Problems in Classifying and Interpreting Adolescent Horror Legends

Folklore·1994·1 author

21citations

Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder

Western Folklore·1989·1 author

88citations

Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds

Journal of American Folklore·1985·2 authors

612citations

The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor

Journal of American Folklore·1984·2 authors

174citations

De Legendis Urbis: Modern Legends in Ancient Rome

Journal of American Folklore·1983·1 author

25citations

The Camp Mock-Ordeal Theater as Life

Journal of American Folklore·1981·1 author

28citations