The following bibliography lists sources in which readers can find information on Louisiana storytellers and their stories. A more detailed bibliography on related stories and traditions from throughout the United States and the world can be found in Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Especially for educators: See the Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide to Exploring Our Communities and
Traditions containing 32 lessons on Louisiana folklife for K-12 students. For more information on publications concerning Louisiana folk traditions and cultures, check the Louisiana Traditional Cultures Bibliography and the Louisiana Folklife Recommended Reading List.

Ancelet, Barry Jean. 1994. Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana. New York: Garland.

Ancelet, Barry Jean, Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre. 1991. Cajun Country. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Anderson, John Q. 1958. "Some Mythical Places in Louisiana." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 3:1-10.

_____. 1960. "Folkways in Writing about Northeast Louisiana before 1865." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 1, no. 4:18-32.

Armistead, Samuel G. 1992. The Spanish Tradition in Louisiana, I: Isleño Folkliterature (with musical annotations by Israel J. Katz). Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta.

Blake, Clifford. 1980. Cornbread for Your Husband and Biscuits for Your Man: Mr. Clifford Blake, Sr., Calls the Cotton Press. LP record. Recorded by Nicholas R. Spitzer, Paul Keyser, and Donald W. Hatley.

Carlson, Flo. 1970. "A Collection of Cajun Superstitions and Supernatural Tales." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 3, no. 1:28-37.

Chambers, E. O. 1983. "The Mona Lisa Legend of City Park, New Orleans." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 5, no. 3:31-39.

Christian, Renée Harvison. 1993. "The Louisiana Storytelling Project: An Appreciation." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 8:49-54.

Claudel, Calvin. 1944. "Louisiana Tales of Jean Sot and Bouqui and Lapin." Southern Folklore Quarterly 8:287-99.

_____. 1948. "Foolish John Tales from the French Folklore of Louisiana." Southern Folklore Quarterly 12:157-59.

_____. 1978. Fools and Rascals: Louisiana Folktales. Baton Rouge: Legacy Publishing.

Dobie, J. Frank. 1950. The Ben Lilly Legend. Boston: Little, Brown.

Dye, Robert. 1973. "Snake-Lore in Louisiana." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 3, no. 3:17-24.

Fortier, Alcée. 1887. "Bits of Louisiana Folk-Lore." Transactions and Proceedings of the Modern Language Association 3:101-68.

_____. 1895. Louisiana Folktales in French Dialect and English Translation. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, no. 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Gaudet, Marcia. 1992. "Bouki, the Hyena, in Louisiana and African Tales." Journal of American Folklore 105:66-72.

Gregory, H. F., and Donald W. Hatley, eds. 1980. "Cornbread for Your Husband and Biscuits for Your Man: Mr. Clifford Blake, Sr., Calls the Cotton Press." Louisiana Folklife 5, no. 1.

Jamison, C. V. 1905. "A Louisiana Legend Concerning Will o' the Wisp." Journal of American Folklore 18:250-51.

Kimball, Geoffrey. 1987. "A Grammatical Sketch of Apalachee." International Journal of American Linguistics 53:136-74.

_____. 1989. "Peregrine Falcon and Great Horned Owl: Ego and Shadow in a Koasati Tale." Southwest Journal of Linguistics 9:45-74.

_____. 1991. Koasati Grammar. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Langley, Linda, Susan LeJeune, and Claude Oubre. 1995. Les Raconteurs: Treasure Lore and More. Folklife Series, vol. 1. Eunice: Louisiana State University at Eunice.

Langley, Linda, Susan Lejeune, and Claude Oubre, eds. 1996. Les Artistes: Crafters Tell Their Tales. Eunice, LA: Louisiana State University at Eunice. Folklife Series, Volume 2.

Lindahl, Carl. 1982. "Skallbone, the Old Coon, ad the Persistence of Specialized Fantasy." Western Folklore 41: 192-204.

Lindahl, Carl, Maida Owens, and C. Renée Harvison. 1997. Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

MacCurdy, Raymond R. 1950. The Spanish Dialect in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Martin, Howard N. 1966. "Tales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians." In Abernethy 1966, 33-57.

_____. 1977. Myths and Folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta of Texas. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press.

Martin, Malcolm J. 1968. "A Ghost Dog." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 2, no. 4:103-4.

Orso, Ethelyn G. 1993. "New Light on an Old Story: The Mona Lisa Legend as Ancient Folklore." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 8:17-24.

Orso, Ethelyn, and E. Charles Plaissance. 1975. "Chitimacha Folklore." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 3, no. 4:35-41.

Oster, Harry M. 1968. "Negro Humor: John and Old Marster." Journal of the Folklore Institute 5:42-57.

Owens, Maida. 1993. "The Louisiana Storytelling Program." Practicing Anthropology 14, no. 2:31-34.

Owens, Maida and Pat Mire. 1998. Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana. Video. 30 minutes.

Perez, Irvan. 1988. "Spanish Décimas from St. Bernard Parish." Liner notes by S. G. Armistead. Cassette recording. Natchitoches: Louisiana Folklife Center.

Reneaux, J. J. 1993. Cajun Folktales. Little Rock: August House.

Roberts, Hilda. 1927. "Louisiana Superstitions." Journal of American Folklore 40:144-208.

Robinson, Ray. 1984. Tales of the Louisiana Bayous. Gray: Cypress.

Sarrazin, Jean, Laura Kraus, and Donald Krintzman. 1968. "`Werewolves' on Bayou Lafourche." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 2, no. 4:34-44.

Saucier, Corinne. 1962. Folktales from French Louisiana. New York: Exposition.

Saxon, Lyle, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant. 1945. Gumbo Ya Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folktales. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Library Commission.

Senn, Mary C. 1983. "Mona Lisa, Is That You?" Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 5, no. 3:27-30.

Wallace, Marcia. "Jokes Southern Baptists Tell." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 3, no. 4:70-84.