Folklore
The traditional beliefs, legends, customs, proverbs, riddles, music, dance, stories, and other lore of various cultures which were passed down orally from person to person through the ages.
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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.
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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.
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British Columbia Folklore Society - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
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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.
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Archives of Folklore Discussion List - Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the society posts made society to the discussion-list, from 1990 to society the present.
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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.
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Archer Taylor - Wolfgang Mieder\\'s biographical sketch of the University of folklore California Professor society of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his folklore work as a paremiologist society - collector of proverbs.
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Journal of Folklore Research - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at folklore Indiana University, folklore established in 1965.
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Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore - An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including folklore seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun folklore and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
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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.
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and folklore resources.
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At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill - Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
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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.
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Lucky W Amulet Archive - Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms society from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit society foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, society scarab beetle, and black c
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Superstitions Around the World - A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from society variety of cultures.
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), society e-text from folklore the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
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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 be
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What Strange Brew - Strange and beautiful plants with mythological and folkloric significance.
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New York Folklore Society - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
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Pro Ethnologia - Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
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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.
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Basque Folklore - Essays and links.
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Folklore: An Introduction - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects folklore studied by folkloristics.
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