| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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.
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| Folklore - Electronic journal from Estonia that includes articles on various religious traditions.
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
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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.
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| British Columbia Folklore Society - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
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| New York Folklore Society - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
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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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| Ethnologies - English-French bilingual journal disseminating knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere.
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| Journal of Folklore Research - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
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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.
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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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| Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
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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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| Folklore: An Introduction - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
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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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| 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.
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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.
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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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| 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 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.
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| Folklore and Popular Culture - Selective bibliography compiled by Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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