Ilona Nagy

* Nagyfödémes, 1944 – / ethnographer, associate professor ; ; He obtained a degree in ethnography and Latin from ELTE in Budapest in 1968. In the same year, he became a member of the Ethnographic Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked until 2008. Since 2001, he has been an associate professor at the Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Pécs. He deals with genre issues and international relations of folktales, especially origin folktales. His studies are published in Hungarian professional journals. ; ; Main works: ; Origin-explaining folktale. Hiedelemmonda (In: Hungarian Folklore in Eight Volumes. Volume V: Folk Poetry), 1988, ; Peasant Bible. Hungarian Folk Biblical Stories (with Annamária Lammel), ; 1985 (German translation published in 2000), ; Apocryphal Gospels, Folklore, Folklore (In: Szóhagyomány), 2001, ; Adam and Eve: Myths of the Creation of Eros (In: Eros in Folklore), 2002, ; The white spot of Hungarian mythological research: modern myths. ; (In: Ethno-Lore. Yearbook of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Ethnographical Research Institute), 2007, ; The roasted rooster crows. From apocryphal literature to folklore. ; (In: Mask, transformation, initiation. Ethnological concepts in an interdisciplinary approach), 2007.