Author:William Crooke

William Crooke
(1848–1923)

Works

• Tribes and Castes of the North-Western (later United) Provinces
• Popular religion and folklore of Northern India (1894) (transcription project)
• The North-West Provinces of India: Their Ethnology and Administration. (1897) (external scan)
• Things Indian (1906) (transcription project)
• Rural and agricultural glossary
• The Talking Thrush, and other tales from India (1922) (transcription project)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• The Binding of a God: A Study of the Basis of Idolatry, in vol. 8 (1897), pp. 325–355.
• "The Wooing of Penelope" in Folk-Lore, 9 (1898)
• "The Scientific Aspects of Folklore" in Folk-Lore, 23 (1912), pp. 14–32
• "The Interpretation of Survivals" in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 132–133
• "Reviews of M. Longworth Dames’ translation of The Book of Duarte Barbosa; — Hamd.-Allah Mustawfi of Qasivin’s The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulūb. — Vincent A. Smith’s The Oxford History of India, from the Earliest Times to the end of 1911; — F. J. Richards’s Madras District Gazetteer; — Joseph Davey Cunningham’s A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej." in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 242–247
• "The Cults of the Mother Goddesses in India" in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 282–308
• "Review of R. P. Masani’s Folk-Lore from India" in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 323–324
• "Obituary of Vincent Arthur Smith" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920)
• "Review of D. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer’s Persian Folk Tales." in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 156–157
• "Review of M. Bloomfield’s Traditions of the Jains. The Life and Stories of the Jain Savior Parçvanātha." in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920)
• "Review of Rai Bahadur’s Hindu Holidays and Ceremonials, with Dissertations on Origin, Folklore and Symbols." in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 168–169
• "Review of A. Hingston Quiggin and A. C. Haddon’s edition of A. H. Keane’s Man, Past and Present" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 253–254
• "Prentice Pillars: the Architect and his Pupil" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 323–324
• "Obituary of Mansel Longworth Dames" in Folk-Lore, 33 (1922), pp. 131–132

Works about Crooke

• H. A. Rose, "In Memoriam: William Crooke (1848-1923)", Folk-lore, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec. 31, 1923), pp. 382–385.
• Richard C. Temple, "William Crooke, D.Sc., Litt.D., F.B.A., C.I.E.", Man, Vol. 24, (Jan., 1924), pp. 6–7

See also

• William Crooke bibliography