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American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
loc.gov
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.New York Folklore Society
nyfolklore.org
Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.Archives of Folklore Discussion List
listserv.tamu.edu
Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
folklife.si.edu
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.Basque Folklore
buber.net
Essays and links.British Columbia Folklore Society
folklore.bc.ca
A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.The Folklore of the Isle of Man
isle-of-man.com
Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.Lucky W Amulet Archive
luckymojo.com
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.Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal
folklore.ee
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.Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan
kokugakuin.ac.jp
E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.Superstitions Around the World
worldsuperstitions.blogspot.com
A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures.Archer Taylor
locustvalley.com
Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist - collector of proverbs.Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
sacred-texts.com
Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.D. L. Ashliman
pitt.edu
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.Pro Ethnologia
erm.ee
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.Journal of Folklore Research
indiana.edu
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
indigogroup.co.uk
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw
indigogroup.co.uk
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.
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