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• D. L. Ashliman (Site) - Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
• Latin-American Folklore Resources Online (Site) - Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
• Archives of Folklore Discussion List (Site) - Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
• Basque Folklore (Site) - Essays and links.
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Site) - Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
• Archer Taylor (Site) - Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
• Lucky W Amulet Archive (Site) - 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.
• Folklore Studies Association of Canada (Site) - 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.
• British Columbia Folklore Society (Site) - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
• Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore (Site) - An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
• New York Folklore Society (Site) - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
• At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill (Site) - Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
• Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw (Site) - 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.
• Pro Ethnologia (Site) - Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
• Journal of Folklore Research (Site) - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
• Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal (Site) - 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.
• Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Site) - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
• Urban Folklore (Site) - Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.
• Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan (Site) - E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (Site) - 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.
• Folklore: An Introduction (Site) - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
• The Folklore of the Isle of Man (Site) - Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.

• D. L. Ashliman (Site) - Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
• Latin-American Folklore Resources Online (Site) - Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
• Archives of Folklore Discussion List (Site) - Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
• Basque Folklore (Site) - Essays and links.
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Site) - Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
• Archer Taylor (Site) - Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
• Lucky W Amulet Archive (Site) - 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.
• Folklore Studies Association of Canada (Site) - 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.
• British Columbia Folklore Society (Site) - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
• Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore (Site) - An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
• New York Folklore Society (Site) - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
• At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill (Site) - Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
• Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw (Site) - 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.
• Pro Ethnologia (Site) - Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
• Journal of Folklore Research (Site) - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
• Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal (Site) - 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.
• Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Site) - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
• Urban Folklore (Site) - Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.
• Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan (Site) - E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (Site) - 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.
• Folklore: An Introduction (Site) - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
• The Folklore of the Isle of Man (Site) - Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
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• In the stress of her regard by tim Jenny nimmo. (Post) - Alert me when articles match as these words. The annual award is given to high school students who best exemplify the performance of music in the folk tradition. Kiski Area Tarique Godson, Jeff Jackson, Danny Meighan, Brett Gunn. ...
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• Literature Genres Folklore (Post) - It gives children a good cultural insight into their own society, and helps them understand why people may act why they act. It also gives them a thirst for historical and ancient literature during times when people weren’t reliant on ...
• Slovenian Folk Dance Group Iskra at Slovenian Day 08 Part 1 (Video) -
• New York Folklore Society (Site) - Provides many programs and services to the folk and traditional arts field, and publishes the journal New York Folklore and a quarterly newsletter.
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• Spokane Fall Folk Festival (Video) -
• Palestinian United Call for BDS against Israel (Post) - Abna’ al-Balad Society, Nablus. Addameer Center for Human Rights, Gaza. Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, Ramallah. Alanqa’ Cultural Association, Hebron. Al-Awda Palestinian Folklore Society, Hebron ...
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• When Small Birds Sweetly Sing (Post) - (Listen to a sampler). When Small Birds Sweetly Sing is the second album from the duo of Susie Burke and David Surette, though over their twenty-year collaboration they have each contributed to each other’s solo efforts. ...
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• What is Folklore (Site) - ... are some definitions and explanations collected by the New York Folklore Society. ... Return to the top of page © 2008, 2007-1998 New York Folklore Society ...
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• The Terror That Comes in the Night Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series (Books) - Only
• EUROPEAN DANCE CARAVAN Taps Dance (Video) -
• NEW RECORDING The Montville Project (Post) - The Montville Project is a new recording of quintessential New England tunes, performed by four quintessential New England musicians: Art Bryan, George Fowler, Surya Mitchell, and Fred White. The project grew out of a workshop which the ...
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• Cardiff ATRiuM Professor Richard Bauman Lectures on The b...b (Post) - Professor Hande Birkalan Gedik (Associate Professor, Yeditepe University, Istanbul) will aim to bring light to the concepts of “authenticity” and “authority” in folklore performances in selective examples from Turkey. ...
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• DelRossis Trattoria (Post) - DelRossi’s Trattoria, David & Elaina DelRossi, proprietors. Serving fine Italian cuisine, featuring their own homemade pasta. Reservations,603-563-7195 Wed. & Thurs. 5-8; Fri. & Sat. 5-9; Sun. 4-8 Closed Mon. & Tues. ...
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• e. Library (Post) - It contains much information that integrates folklore studies with other disciplines. Its online search feature enables a user to find articles anywhere in the work containing desired terms, for example folk or fairy tale. ...
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• But the Chloe boot flavored caf eacute. (Post) - Also Open blues jam with Charley Dee and friends, Sundays. Saloon Beginners II line dance lesson with Dave Sickles, Thursdays. Published April CHS students win folk music award Corvallis High School students Rebecca Lomnicky and Gary ...
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• Queens Historic Groups Take Collections Online (News) - The last Republican and first Jewish Queens District Attorney, Nat Hentel, right, shaking hands with City Councilman Sid Lazar in 1970. (courtesy of the QJHS)
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• INFORM N. 129 27 giugno 2008 (News) - NEW YORK - Tra le iniziative che animano l’estate newyorkese, anche un evento di stampo prettamente pugliese.
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• Western States Folklore Society (Site) - Folklore Society ... describes our journal, Western Folklore, and how to submit ... The Western States Folklore Society is pleased to announce that it ...
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• Home (Site) - ... Folklore ... The Texas Folklore Society. The Texas Folklore Society is dedicated to ... for the 2009 Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. ...
• Folknotes June (Post) - Utah Philips died late in the evening of May 23, asleep, at home in his bed beside his wife. He was 73. He’d suffered from heart disease for a few years, and by last summer was forced to give up performing. ...
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• Folknotes July (Post) - As I set out to write this month’s Folknotes, there is a convergence of information about some members of the music and dance community who are bravely facing health problems. Though it is a more solemn topic than we generally address ...
• African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia A Study of Folk Traditions Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series (Books) - Only
• Dancing in My Parents Footsteps by Lisa Sieverts (Post) - It’s 1967, I’m 7 years old, dancing Money Musk with my father at the Nelson Town Hall. Newt Tolman plays the tune on his flute. The air is filled with music and dust. I’m in a whirl of confusion as the lines churn around me, ...
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• Colmans Well Concert Review (Post) - July 2, Nelson Town Hall. They sang blues, they sang a capella, they sang Leonard Cohen, they sang Fiona Apple, they sang shape note songs, they sang folk songs, and at one point in the evening, there was a trombone and ukulele duet. ...
• Backlinks var backlink n div class Jenny nimmo. (Post) - Published April CHS students win folk music award Corvallis High School students Rebecca Lomnicky and Gary Breed were awarded the Corvallis Folklore Society Folk Music Award on April at Local Folk, the open mic program of Corvallis ...
• Whats In a Name Tune Titles Part I (Post) - Many fiddle tunes played at dances and sessions go by the title “Don’t know the name of that one” or simply “Unknown.” The Irish-language equivalent is the familiar “Gan Ainm,” meaning “without name.” But many tunes do have names that ...
• Eighteen Feet Square and Seven Feet Stud By Randy Miller (Post) - “Know all men by these presents, that I Samuel Shadwick of Newton in the County of Middlesex and Province of the Massachusetts Bay housewright am holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto William Dudley of Roxbury, [there follows ...
• MSC Living History Day Call (Post) - CALLING ALL INTERESTED TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND STUDENTS YOU ARE INVITED!! The Center for Innovative Learning, Schreiner University, Texas Heritage Music Foundation and Past is Prologue invite you to put these dates on your calendar ...
• April Verch PFMS (Post) - April Verch Sponsored by the Peterborough Folk Music Society http://pfmsconcerts.org/
• Jerry Holland Concert Reflections (Post) - I may have been the only person in the crowd of 80 at the Nelson Town Hall Wednesday who had not heard of the feature performer for the night: Jerry Holland. What I did know was this was a revered musician, respected throughout the ...
• Folknotes March (Post) - My first experiences of coffee were from my grandmothers percolator, and at various diners on Cape Cod, where I spent summers working for my grandfather on his cranberry bogs. Some years later I was privileged to do a bit of touring ...
• Irish Music Denis Liddy and Elvie Miller (Post) - Nelson Town Hall Sunday, August 12th, 7:30 Admission: $12 at the door, $9 seniors, youth, or in advance (ordering through this Website will be set up shortly). A phenomenal evening of Irish music! ...
• Bob McQuillen Turns Over His Works to Great Meadow Music (Post) - Bob McQuillen, grandmaster of New England contra dance piano, and certainly the most prolific living (or otherwise) composer of contra dance tunes, has arranged with Great Meadow Music to have them become the official publisher of his ...
• Book for Pagans Folklore and Folk Practices (Post) - Many more articles and books on folklore of the British Isles can be found through reprints available at http://www.kessinger.net/ and also through the Folklore Society, http://www.folklore-society.com/. North American: ...
• QampA Head of Folklore Society is a champion of oral histories (Post) - According to Ellen McHale, the written word is not always the final word.
• Harveys Heritage Award (Post) - Harvey Tolman’s influence on local musicians, his recordings and compositions, and his regular appearances at the Monday night Nelson contra dance have all magically combined to help spread the compelling dance music of Cape Breton ...
• Folknotes February (Post) - The hills are alive with the sound of folk music. From town halls, church basements, bars and restaurants, to living rooms and kitchens, people are satisfying their yearning to play and sing. This is nothing new: music is a very primal ...
• Folknotes May (Post) - There are undoubtedly more foolish things one could do than to rise before dawn, ascend Pack Monadnock in wearing knickers, strap bells to your chins your legs, and prance around waving, alternately, hankies and sticks at each other, ...
• Pitchers LGB Val Naomi smith W, IP, K, BB. (Post) - Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. Cassie Ann Searle, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ll show up out of curiosity alone. Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash is the Mats at their best. ...
• Legacies Brought to Light (Post) - “Freedom Celebration” Encourages Honor and Healing. On June 20 and 21, the Elegba Folklore Society will present “Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration.” The event will take place over two days in Downtown Richmond, and will feature ...
• Folk Artists amp Folklorists in the News, June 25, 2008 (Post) - The Section is interested in supporting graduate and undergraduate students who have an interest in working as public folklorists or who have chosen an area of public folklore as a primary topic of research. ...
• Bodhran Workshop and Concert (Post) - Have you ever heard the sound of a drum gently, rhythmically, beating in your head as you recite your poetry? Or deftly accompanying and emphasizing the words and emotion of a story you are delivering? If so, now is your chance to “have ...
• Aspenites fatal shark attack will air on TV (News) - ASPEN, Colorad — The story of Tessa Horan, the former Aspen High School student who was killed in a shark attack in Tonga, will be featured as part of “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel later this month.
• Morphology of the Folktale American Folklore Society Publications b...b (Post) - List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $11.99 Discount: 40%
• Albert Lea Tribune (News) - My neighbor Crandall stops by. “How are you doing?” I ask.
• Harvey Tolman to Receive the Governors Arts Award (Post) - On Thursday, April 24, Nelson fiddler Harvey Tolman will join a distinguished group of honorees in receiving the Governor’s Arts Award at the Colonial Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire. Other recipients will include Marilyn Ziffrin of ...
• Challenges of Botswana journalism (News) - Veteran journalist RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE takes a long hard look at journalism in Botswana. In his frank diagnosis he indentifies a number of ailments that assail the press.
• Folknotes April (Post) - It’s been a long winter. One of the companions that has nourished the endurance for me has been the Irish harper Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin, more commonly rendered today as Turlough O’Carolan. O’Carolan died 270 years ago last week ...
• Railroad attraction ready for business (News) - After four years of planning and more than 50,000 hours of volunteer work, a mega-train attraction is chugging into town this weekend.
• Nick Gravenites Bad Talkin39 Bluesman Part 2 (Post) - Folk musicians started performing in coffeehouses and small clubs, and the Folklore society visited other schools, such as the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ...
• Folklore Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Site) - All Folklore Society events are smoke-free, and only non-alcoholic beverages are ... The Folklore Society, together with the Chicory House, sponsors a New England ...
• William John Thoms, The Man Who Invented The Word bFolkloreb (Post) - By the end of the eighties folklore had become an accepted term in Scandinavia, as well as in the Romance and Slavic speaking countries. The British Folklore Society, which was also formed largely thanks to Thoms’s efforts, ...
• The Missouri Folklore Society (Site) - The Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the ... Tributes to Missouri Folklore Society Members and their work, past and present: ...
• ICH Workshop Stories, Memories, Facts and Family (Post) - Friday, June 13th, 2008 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Lantern, Barnes Road, St. John’s Ever want to collect and tell your family stories? Want to learn how to interview family members, preserve the oral stories, and weave together family facts ...
• Seattle Folklore Society (Site) - Seeking to preserve and foster awareness and appreciation of folk and traditional arts.
• Bozeman Folklore Society (Post) - Bozeman , MT 59771-0812 Phone #: 1 406 586-0321. The Bozeman Folklore Society offers an array of cultural activities throughout the year. Dance workshops with a dance to follow are one of the popular activities. ...
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• Labor News from Montana (Post) - by Kevin Curtis. Our Union Corner and it’s events, including Mark Ross will be covered in the local papers. Also the metal cut-out of Frank Little and his lynchers has been removed from it’s Quartz street location. ...
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• Financial Onslaught, Part 6 (Post) - Hypothetically, say, an Uzbek folklore society based in Germany. The stated purpose would be to hold folklore-related activities -- and they might even do that -- but the real activities taking place behind the scenes are criminal. ...
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• Juneteenth to include torchlight walk on Slave Trail (Post) - This year’s Juneteenth celebrations will take place June 20-21, include a fashion show, a panel discussion, African music and dance, a Dead Prez concert, and will end in a torchlight walk on the Richmond Slave Trail. [via] ...
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• Washington folk festival (Post) - Cari Lekebusch and Gene Hunt. Cityguide - Washington, DC Washington. 59°F. Currently 59°F in Reagan National Airport, VA. close. Mon69° / 88°. Tue62° / 87°. Wed56° / 70°. Thu60° / 78° … artist: cari lekebusch and gene hunt genre(s): ...
• Wiki Folklore20Society (Wiki) -

  The Folklore Society was founded in England in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief.

  The society publishes a quarterly journal Folklore, and since 1986 a newsletter, FLS News. It has library facilities at the Warburg Institute and the D M S Watson Library at University College, London.

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