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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music.
www.loc.gov/folklife/ Read more

Archer Taylor
Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
www.locustvalley.com/business/Families%20of%20Distinction/Taylor.html Read more

Archives of Folklore Discussion List
Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html Read more

At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm Read more

Basque Folklore
Essays and links.
www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/ Read more

British Columbia Folklore Society
A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm Read more

D. L. Ashliman
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html Read more

Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore
An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
web.ncf.ca/bj333/folklore.html Read more

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan
E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/ Read more

Folklore Studies Association of Canada
Educational, non-profit association founded in June 1976 for the purpose of increasing education and research in the field of folklore studies in all its aspects.
www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/ Read more

Folklore: An Introduction
Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html Read more

Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal
English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.
folklore.ee/folklore/ Read more

Journal of Folklore Research
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
www.indiana.edu/~jofr/ Read more

Latin-American Folklore Resources Online
Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html Read more

Lucky W Amulet Archive
Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, scarab beetle, and black cat bone.
www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Read more

New York Folklore Society
Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html Read more

Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw
Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through "paganisation" by Victorian romantic authors.
www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm Read more

Pro Ethnologia
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
www.erm.ee/?node=101 Read more

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
www.folklife.si.edu/ Read more

The Folklore of the Isle of Man
Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/ Read more

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