Directory: Top/Society/Folklore

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.
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html
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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.
http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html
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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/
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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
http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html
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British Columbia Folklore Society
A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm
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New York Folklore Society
Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html
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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.
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm
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Journal of Folklore Research
A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/
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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.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/
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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.
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/
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