Bavarian yearbook for folklore

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The Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore is a scientific yearbook on the topic of folklore . It has the largest part of reviews among all German-language folklore magazines and yearbooks.

The yearbook was founded in 1914 by Friedrich von der Leyen and Adolf Spamer as a magazine under the name Bayerische Hefte für Volkskunde and published by the Bavarian Regional Association for Homeland Care , which was then called the Regional Association for Homeland Protection. In 1925 the Bavarian Hefts for Folklore were merged with the other journal of the Landesverein für Heimatschutz, the Hefts für Volkskunde to form a yearbook. The yearbook was published for the last time in 1938. As the folklore booklets became independent again and were added to the Schönere Heimat magazine , another series of publications by the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care . The Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore was not published again until 1950 and is now published by the Institute for Folklore in Munich on behalf of the Commission for Bavarian National History .

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