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

superstitions inoue

scarab kokugakuin

British Columbia Folklore Society

Journal of Folklore Research

Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.

The Hebridean Folklore Project

folkloric mieder

Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw

kokugakuin proberbs

Archer Taylor

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

Pro Ethnologia

Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues.

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

swastika raccoon

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 .

D. L. Ashliman

Family Folklore: How to Collect Your Own Family Folklore

exaggerated contrasts

At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill

Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

ethnographical raccoon

Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore

Includes tales and photos.

conqueror sagas

Folklore: An Introduction

swastika folkloric

Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world.

kokugakuin superstitions

Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.

folklore encyclopedic

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.

New York Folklore Society

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

sagas folkloric

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

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

ethnographical contrasts

Archives of Folklore Discussion List

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

encyclopedic sagas

exaggerated inoue

conqueror inoue

contrasts hamsa

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

Lucky W Amulet Archive

scarab inoue

Latin-American Folklore Resources Online

exaggerated swastika

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

inoue ashliman

scarab 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. Content in Estonian and English.

raccoon swastika

Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.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 .Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W.

encyclopedic amulet

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

exaggerated folkloric

The Folklore of the Isle of Man

hamsa folklore

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