This would appear to be the only book in which all the detailed fragments of Jewish folklore have been collected. It is, therefore, a book of considerable documentary value.

The material is grouped under usual headings, such as 'Folklore Medicine', 'Birth, Marriage and Death', 'Demonology', 'Man and the Parts of His Body', etc. The author has an interesting discussion on the characteristics of Jewish folklore, raising the double question of the extent to which it has influenced Jewish religion and the extent to which this has influenced the folklore. He concludes that the former process has been very slight, but the latter important. In other words, the distinguishing feature of Jewish folklore is the way in which monotheistic beliefs have permeated folkloristic beliefs.