The Maltese Folklore Review was a Maltese journal published sporadically between 1962 and 1973 by writer and folklorist Ġużè Cassar Pullicino. It explored lesser known aspects of Maltese folklore, filling a much felt need in an area which was poorly understood. The Maltese Islands offer a very fertile field of folklore research. Their geographical position half-way on the land ridge once joining Sicily to Africa has influenced the course of Maltese history. We find a succession of dynasties, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Norman, Sicilian, Angevin, Aragonese, Castilian, the Knights Hospitallers and, nowadays, the British, exercising different cultural and ethnological influences on Maltese life and thought. Maltese folklore bears the traces of these various contacts, presenting unmistakable evidence of distinctive cultural influences superimposed upon, or completely merged with the original native lore.