"Folklore cannot be understood only by looking at it within the context of a single culture." --'Acknowledgement', in the Introductory Section to 'The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife'. Westport, CN/ London: Greenwood Press, 2005-6. ... Let us start with a seeming digression. The fourteen member Editorial Advisory Board of the cited milestone-marking encyclopedia of folklore worldwide was one particularly composed of a wide range of active scholars, in the main the then editors or long serving representatives of (regionally) significant folkloric journals.