''The Folklore and Ethnography Collection'' (, ''Sbornik za narodni umotvoreniia i narodopis'') is a serial publication covering various aspects of Bulgarian folklore and cultural anthropology. It has been published in

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since 1889; Volume 63 appeared in 2007, and Volume 64 appeared in 2012. The title of this serial is commonly abbreviated as SbNU (СбНУ). It is fairly difficult to translate precisely, as the words "народни умотворения" literally means "creations of the folk mind". The title has been translated into English in various ways, including ''Collection of folklore and folk studies'', ''Collection of works of the popular spirit'', etc. This is a publication in which a great amount of Bulgarian (including from

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etc.) folk songs, tales, etc. have been first published.

Not to confuse with

The Folklore and Ethnography Collection should be distinguished from another publication with a fairly similar name, the ''Bulgarian Folklore Collection''(, ''Sbornik ot bâlgarski narodni umotvoreniia''). Edited by

Kuzman Shapkarev Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev ( Bulgarian and ; 1 January 1834 – 18 March 1909) was a Bulgarian folklorist and ethnographer from the Ottoman region of Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies, and a figure of the Bulgarian Nationa ...

, that collection, in several volumes, appeared in 1891.

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Сборникъ за Народни Умотворения, Наука и Книжнина
contents and links to full text of vols. 1-24 (1889-1908)

information about vols. 56–63, published by the Institute of Folklore of the

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