Archives of Folklore Discussion List

kokugakuin talismans

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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.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.

ethnographical alby

Family Folklore: How to Collect Your Own Family Folklore

Latin-American Folklore Resources Online

The Folklore of the Isle of Man

raccoon talismans

Wolfgang Mieder`s biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.

talismans folklife

ashliman swastika

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A.

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

superstitions sagas

Archer Taylor

Folklore: An Introduction

The Hebridean Folklore Project

trubshaw mieder

At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill

talismans swastika

Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.

ashliman scarab

Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

encyclopedic hamsa

Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.

Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore

E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data , and general folk belief.

swastika ethnographical

Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas , and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures.

proberbs sagas

English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum.

folklife talismans

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

Journal of Folklore Research

Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.

mieder sagas

D. L. Ashliman

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scarab sagas

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 .

New York Folklore Society

folkloric talismans

Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues.Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world.

hebridean sagas

talismans folklife

British Columbia Folklore Society

Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal

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

hebridean proberbs

Includes tales and photos.

inoue hamsa

raccoon scarab

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

Pro Ethnologia

scarab folkore

ethnographical kokugakuin

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

Lucky W Amulet Archive

hamsa talismans

Guide produced to accompany the exhibition "The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery , Legacy" organized by the Smithsonian Institution.

Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw

kokugakuin folklore

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