Folklore Websites

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Essays and links.

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

A compilation of superstitions and taboos around from variety of cultures.

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