In this chapter I discuss the contents and functions of contemporary jokes about IT specialists. The analysis includes accounts circulated orally, in print, and electronically. It also refers to a variety of visual and ...

The ethnographic and folklore materials collected and published by Oskar Kolberg contain a substantial portion of folk songs. Publication of such extensive collections required the introduction of a deliberate system of ...

In the first part of this chapter I refer to the concept of folklore contained in the works of Józef Burszta and recapitulate an ongoing discussion in Poland on the subject of folklore research paying particular attention ...

Polish wandering beggars, commonly called dziady and Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy players are two groups, which were characterized by certain similarities, but at the same time they differed in a significant way. Despite these ...

In this paper I examine different ways of depicting beggars in Polish folk tales. I argue that the vast variation of images originated from two basic stereotypes of the beggar. The first one is related to the traditional ...