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American Folklife Center


URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
ODP description: Archives of Folk Culture in the Library of Congress. Information about the Center and its publications, with guides to the collections.
Page title: The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (Home Page)
Page description: The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present" the great heritage of American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. The American Folklife Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in the L...

D. L. Ashliman


URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
ODP description: Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
Page title: D. L. Ashliman's Home Page

Lucky W Amulet Archive


URL: http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html
ODP description: 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.
Page title: Lucky W Amulet Archive: Good Luck Charms, Magic Talismans, Protection Amulets
Page description: content=

Latin-American Folklore Resources Online


URL: http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html
ODP description: Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
Page title: Folklore

Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw


URL: http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm
ODP description: 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.
Page title: At the Edge: Paganism in British Folk Customs

British Columbia Folklore Society


URL: http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm
ODP description: A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
Page title: Folklore: What is it?

Journal of Folklore Research


URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/
ODP description: A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
Page description: The Journal of Folklore Research is a peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. Established in 1965, JFR is dedicated to promoting international scholarly dialogue about the worldÕs traditional creative and expressive forms.

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland


URL: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/
ODP description: Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Page title: Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Index
Page description: Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, by Lady Gregory, at sacred-texts.com

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage


URL: http://www.folklife.si.edu/
ODP description: Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
Page title: Folklife

Basque Folklore


URL: http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/
ODP description: Essays and links.
Page title: Buber's Basque Page: Folklore eta Tradizioak * Folklore and Traditions * Folklore y Tradiciones * Folklore et Traditions
Page description: Buber's Basque Page, Basque history, language, culture, sports, food, Blas' biography and a description of research

Archives of Folklore Discussion List


URL: http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html
ODP description: Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
Page title: Archives of FOLKLORE@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU

New York Folklore Society


URL: http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html
ODP description: Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
Page title: What is Folklore?
Page description: There are lots of definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts. Here are some definitions and explanations collected by the New York Folklore Society.

Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore


URL: http://web.ncf.ca/bj333/folklore.html
ODP description: An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
Page title: folklore.html

Folklore


URL: http://folklore.ee/folklore/
ODP description: Electronic journal from Estonia that includes articles on various religious traditions.
Page title: Folklore_main

The Folklore of the Isle of Man


URL: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/
ODP description: Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
Page title: Index - The Folklore of the Isle of Man, A.W. Moore 1891
Page description: Index - Folklore of the Isle of Man, A.W.Moore 1891

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan


URL: http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/
ODP description: E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
Page title: Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan: Table of Contents

Archer Taylor


URL: http://www.locustvalley.com/business/Families%20of%20Distinction/Taylor.html
ODP description: Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
Page title: Locust Valley. Local Families of Distinction: Taylor

Folklore: An Introduction


URL: http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html
ODP description: Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.

Pro Ethnologia


URL: http://www.erm.ee/?node=101
ODP description: Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
Page title: Eesti Rahva Muuseum

Folklore Studies Association of Canada


URL: http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/
ODP description: 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.
Page title: ACEF/FSAC
Page description: ACEF, association qui regroupe des professionnels, des chercheurs, des professeurs et des etudiants en ethnologie, mais egalement en anthropologie et en histoire. Editeur de CFC,seule revue scientifique bilingue d'ethnologie et de folklore au Canada.

At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill


URL: http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm
ODP description: Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.

Urban Folklore


URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~urbanflk/
ODP description: Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.




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