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485 Listings - DR (10/10)485 Listings - DR (10/10) Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - http://www.folklife.si.edu/
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
6,292 Listings - DR (7/10)6,292 Listings - DR (7/10) Superstitions Around the World - http://worldsuperstitions.blogspot.com
A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures.
666 Listings - DR (6/10)666 Listings - DR (6/10) Journal of Folklore Research - http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Archer Taylor - http://www.locustvalley.com/business/Families of Distinction/Taylor.html
Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist - collector of proverbs.
713 Listings - DR (6/10)713 Listings - DR (6/10) Latin-American Folklore Resources Online - http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html
Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
404 Listings - DR (6/10)404 Listings - DR (6/10) D. L. Ashliman - http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html
Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
13 Listings - DR (6/10)13 Listings - DR (6/10) Basque Folklore - http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/
Essays and links.
22 Listings - DR (5/10)22 Listings - DR (5/10) At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill - http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
22 Listings - DR (5/10)22 Listings - DR (5/10) Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw - http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm
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.
157 Listings - DR (4/10)157 Listings - DR (4/10) Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/
Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) New York Folklore Society - http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html
Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
1,283 Listings - DR (3/10)1,283 Listings - DR (3/10) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
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.
1,196 Listings - DR (3/10)1,196 Listings - DR (3/10) Archives of Folklore Discussion List - http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html
Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
48 Listings - DR (3/10)48 Listings - DR (3/10) Lucky W Amulet Archive - http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html
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.
19 Listings - DR (2/10)19 Listings - DR (2/10) The Folklore of the Isle of Man - http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/
Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
408 Listings - DR (2/10)408 Listings - DR (2/10) Folklore Studies Association of Canada - http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/
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.
34 Listings - DR (1/10)34 Listings - DR (1/10) Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal - http://folklore.ee/folklore/
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.
On Target - DR (1/10)On Target - DR (1/10) Pro Ethnologia - http://www.erm.ee/?node=101
Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
10 Listings - DR (0/10)10 Listings - DR (0/10) Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/
E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) What Strange Brew - http://whatstrangebrew.com
Strange and beautiful plants with mythological and folkloric significance.
8 Listings - DR (0/10)8 Listings - DR (0/10) British Columbia Folklore Society - http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm
A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

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