Directory Sites

  • 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.

    lcweb.loc.gov

  • 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.

    latino.sscnet.ucla.edu

  • 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.

    listserv.tamu.edu

  • 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.

    www.ncf.carleton.ca

  • Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

    Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.

    www.folklife.si.edu

  • 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.

    www.luckymojo.com

  • British Columbia Folklore Society

    A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

    www.folklore.bc.ca

  • New York Folklore Society

    Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.

    www.nyfolklore.org

  • 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.

    www.indigogroup.co.uk

  • Journal of Folklore Research

    A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.

    www.indiana.edu

  • 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.

    www.ee.surrey.ac.uk

  • Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

    Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.

    www.sacred-texts.com

  • Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

    E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.

    www.kokugakuin.ac.jp

  • Folklore: An Introduction

    Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.

    virtual.park.uga.edu

  • At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill

    Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.

    www.indigogroup.co.uk

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