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. - Read more

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

Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales. - Read more

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

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

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

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples. - Read more

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

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

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. - Read more

Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts. - Read more

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

Essays and links. - Read more

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. - Read more

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

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. - Read more

A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures. - Read more

Strange and beautiful plants with mythological and folkloric significance. - Read more

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

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