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Selective bibliography compiled by Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~cdwright/folklore.html
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The Hebridean Folklore Project
Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish
culture around the world. Includes tales and photos.
http://www.efn.org/~hebrides/
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D. L. Ashliman
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and
Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
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Folklore and Folk Ways
A brief definition of folklore by The Tree Leaves' Folk Fellowship.
http://www.treeleaves.com/folklore/
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Pro Ethnologia
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues.
Content in Estonian and English.
http://www.erm.ee/?node=101
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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.
http://www.locustvalley.com/business/Families%20of%20Distinction/Taylor.html
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Family Folklore: How to Collect Your Own Family Folklore
Guide produced to accompany the exhibition "The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery,
Legacy" organized by the Smithsonian Institution.
http://educate.si.edu/migrations/seek2/family.html
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At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm
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Folklore: An Introduction
Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html
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Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan
E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics,
Kokugakuin University.
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text
Archive.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/
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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.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/fulltext/folklore/index.htm
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Old Wives Tales
Sayings, superstitions, portents, lore, and rhymes, passed along to us, and being passed along to
the next generation.
http://www.oldwivestales.net
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Journal of Folklore Research
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/
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Ethnologies
English-French bilingual journal disseminating knowledge about activities concerning folklore and
ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere.
http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/celat/acef/revue.htm
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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.
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm
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New York Folklore Society
Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html
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British Columbia Folklore Society
A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm
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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.
http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and
resources.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/
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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.
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/
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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.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/folklore.html
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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.
http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html
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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.
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html
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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.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/
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