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The Encyclopedia Mythica  - On-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, containing definitions of deities, fabulous creatures and places, as well as images and stories.
Becka's Mythology Pages - Covering mythical creatures, retellings of folktales, and a section on lost lands.
Children's Folklore - Multicultural and multilingual anthology published on the web by children, parents and teachers from around the world; contains rhymes, customs, and games.
Folklore - Online course materials by Mary Magoulick, Georgia College and State University.
Folklore and Myth, Fables and Tall Tales - Folktales and proverbs from around the world, and reference lists of deities and legendary creatures and lands.
Folklore Home Page - Online course materials offered by the College of Siskiyous.
Fool's Paradise - Tons-o-Trickster! - Bibliography and large list of links exploring the complex mythic/archetypal figure of Trickster.
Forms of Folklore, The Verbal Arts - Arizona University lecture course examining form and function of the traditional verbal arts.
Forms of Traditional Literature with Links - Provides some definitions of common forms of traditional literature, such as folktales, tall tales, fables, proverbs, myths, and epics.
My Folklore Courses Home Page - Online course materials including overviews and definitions, from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Oral History Online - Research tool indexing oral history collections in English around the world, linking through to the full text where available.
Oral Lore - Listing of categories and examples of oral lore.
Ring Of Folklore And Urban Legends - Webring for sites on urban legends and folklore, including sites that carry collections of jokes, riddles, songs, and stories, or sites that debunk myths of science, history, and daily life.
Small Forms of Verbal Folklore - Discussing several minor forms such as proverbs, riddles, oaths and calls, with examples from Lithuanian folklore.
Terror and Taboo in Russian Childlore - Course materials on Russian and American folklore, focussing on childlore, to determine the role of folklore in society.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought - Study by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896) into the history of childhood (PDF files).
The Solar Wheel Award - List of links to 1998 and 1999 award winning websites for folklore, myth and legend.
Traditional Literature - Outlines the origins and characteristics of folktales, and the various genres of traditional literature.
Windsor Castle - Extensive collection of traditional and modern wisdom, tales and lore (in Norwegian and English).
Related Categories:
Arts > Literature > Myths and Folktales
Arts > Humanities > Literature in Art
Arts > Performing Arts > Storytelling
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