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1. Basque Folklore

Essays and links.

http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/

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2. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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.

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

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3. 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 proverbs.

http://www.locustvalley.com/business/Families%20of%20Distinction/Taylor.html

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4. 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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5. At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill

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

http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm

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6. British Columbia Folklore Society

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.

http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm

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7. D. L. Ashliman

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

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html

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8. Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

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

http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/

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9. Folklore Studies Association of Canada

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.

http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/

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10. Folklore: An Introduction

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

http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html

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11. Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal

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.

http://folklore.ee/folklore/

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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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 cat bone.

http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

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15. The Folklore of the Isle of Man

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

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/

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