Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger)
the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll)
a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer)
the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco)
and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).