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Folklore
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Movies, showtimes and TV episodes. Search by title, keyword or artist.
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"The Ethereal Mother" Appalachian Ghost Story. North Carolina.
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Discover Hawaii! Lush Gardens, Lava Flows, Hawaiian Myth & History.
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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.
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Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
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Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
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Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
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Essays and links.
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A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
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Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
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An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
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E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
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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.
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Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
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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.
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A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
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Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
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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.
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Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
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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.
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Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
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Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
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Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
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Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.
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Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
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