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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
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
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
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
E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
www.kokugakuin.ac.jp
Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
virtual.park.uga.edu
Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
www.indigogroup.co.uk