Folklore

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.

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

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.

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.

Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.

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 belief.

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.

Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.

Essays and links.

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.

An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.

Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.

All Folklore Society events are smoke-free, and only non-alcoholic beverages are ... The Folklore Society, together with the Chicory House, sponsors a New England ...[2008/09/09]

The Folklore Society's interests cover all aspects of folklore - traditional ... The Folklore Society is delighted to announce that the winner of The Katharine ...[2008/11/27]

Provides many programs and services to the folk and traditional arts field, and publishes the journal New York Folklore and a quarterly newsletter.[2008/11/26]

North Carolina Folklore Society. P.O. Box 62271. Durham, NC 27715. RESCHEDULED: ... All contents copyright © 1996, North Carolina Folklore Society ...[2008/04/02]

Association of people who create and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world.[2008/12/03]

The McCall Folklore Society is dedicated to bringing the best of the arts, music, writing, workshops and other aspects to the community of McCall, Idaho[2008/11/26]

Seeking to preserve and foster awareness and appreciation of folk and traditional arts.[2008/07/25]

Texas Folklore Society home page ... The Texas Folklore Society is dedicated to ... 100th Anniversary -The Texas Folklore Society will celebrate 100 years of ...[2008/11/04]

Founded in 1941, the Society supports the study of all aspects of regional, national, and international folklore. Anyone interested in folklore and folklife may join.[2008/10/19]

Presenting workshops and concerts of traditional bluegrass, old-time, blues, Irish, Gospel, Québécois, ... Council © The University of Chicago Folklore Society ...[2008/10/13]