Folklore
Folklore
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- A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
- Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world. Includes tales and photos.
- Guide produced to accompany the exhibition "The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy" organized by the Smithsonian Institution.
- Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
- Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
- 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
- Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
- E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
- 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.
- Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
- Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
- Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
- An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
- 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 c
- Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
- Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
- Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
- Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
- Sayings, superstitions, portents, lore, and rhymes, passed along to us, and being passed along to the next generation.
- Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
- Selective bibliography compiled by Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
- 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.
- English-French bilingual journal disseminating knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere.
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