• National folklore: Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, etc. (directly from history, also 'elite' national literature as such)

• Regional folklore: Catskill Mountains & Rip Van Winkle, Ozark Mountains and Vance Randolph's Pissing in the Snow collection, etc.

• Humor and joke (and joking) patterns: 'Confucious say',   limericks,   'dirty jokes' and their implied sexual beliefs, 'travelling salesman' jokes and their implied values (?), bragging jokes or 'tall tales'.

• Urban folklore ( the 'hook', rat in the coke bottle, 'fart in the dark' (cf. first-date fart advertisement [YouTube]), 'mystery hitchhiker', Super Bowl legends, etc.)

• Ethnic folklore (various Native American Indian beliefs — cf. sequences in the film 'Smoke Signals' [YouTube] on film & tv vs Indian identity), European national beliefs transplanted & modified to the U.S. ('The Deer Hunter', 'Polish Wedding' [YouTube], etc.) — as well as Kip Peltoniemi: Industrial Accordionist and several sample clips

• (See also the Folklore, Folktales and Folk Humor Index)