Hammond loaned his Robert Johnson records to Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress, who included them in a published list of records of interest to folklore scholars.

Many folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons:

It was Elias Lonnrot (1802-84), a country doctor and folklore scholar who, by sheer force of will, created the "Kalevala."

Bottigheimer's recent conclusions about the literary history of fairy tales, published in her book Fairy Tales: A New History, have created a great deal of controversy among folklore scholars.

A folklore scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Don Yoder, agreed with Ms. Rose.

Oskar Kallas, Ph.D (1868-1946) studied at the University of Helsinki, was the first folklore scholar of Estonian descent.

The most academic account is given by a folklore scholar, Professor Bill Ellis, in the journal Folklore.

The 20th century folklorist, Shinobu Orikuchi, student of the great Japanese folklore scholar, Kunio Yanagita, was the first to bring the ancient concept of 'marebito' to modern attention.

The Chinese folklore scholar Wolfram Eberhard links bashe with the legendary archer Houyi 后翌 who descended from heaven to destroy evildoers.

The Fife Folklore Conference is a five-day workshop that gives USU students a chance to meet folklore scholars from other colleges throughout the United States (Williams).