Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/

Old Wives Tales

Sayings, superstitions, portents, lore, and rhymes, passed along to us, and being passed along to the next generation.
http://www.oldwivestales.net

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://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/

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

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

Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore

An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/folklore.html

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 be
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/

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

British Columbia Folklore Society

A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm

New York Folklore Society

Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html

Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw

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

Ethnologies

English-French bilingual journal disseminating knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere.
http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/celat/acef/revue.htm

Journal of Folklore Research

A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/

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.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/fulltext/folklore/index.htm

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/

Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/

Folklore: An Introduction

Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html

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

Family Folklore: How to Collect Your Own Family Folklore

Guide produced to accompany the exhibition "The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy" organized by the Smithsonian Institution.
http://educate.si.edu/migrations/seek2/family.html

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

Pro Ethnologia

Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
http://www.erm.ee/?node=101

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

The Hebridean Folklore Project

Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world. Includes tales and photos.
http://www.efn.org/~hebrides/

Folklore and Popular Culture

Selective bibliography compiled by Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~cdwright/folklore.html