Steve Roud

Steve Roud is the founder of the Roud Folk Song Index and an expert on folklore and superstition, resident in Maresfield, East Sussex, England.^[1] He was formerly Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon and Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society, whose Committee he later rejoined.

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000 references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is hosted on the web-site of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.^[2]

Bibliography

• (with Jacqueline Simpson) A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-860766-0)
• A Pocket Guide to the Superstitions of the British Isles (2004)
• The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland (2006)
• The English Year (Penguin Books, 2008)
• London Lore – The Legends and Traditions of the World's Most Vibrant City (Arrow, 2010 ISBN 9780099519867)^[3]
• A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles
• The Lore of the Playground
• Monday's Child is Fair of Face and Other Traditional Beliefs about Babies
• (with Eddie Cass) Room, Room, Ladies and Gentlemen: An Introduction to the English Mummers' Play

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