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• Ethnology
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• Material culture
• Mythology
• Oral tradition
• Storytelling

• Folklore -- Abstracts
• Folklore -- Afghanistan
• Folklore -- Africa
• Folklore -- Africa, Central
• Folklore -- Africa, East
• Folklore -- Africa, West
• Folklore -- Alabama
• Folklore -- Angola
• Folklore -- Appalachian Region
• Folklore -- Arab countries
• Folklore -- Argentina
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• Folklore -- Arkansas
• Folklore -- Asia
• Folklore -- Australia
• Folklore -- Austria
• Folklore -- Bangladesh
• Folklore -- Belgium
• Folklore -- Bibliography
• Folklore -- Brazil
• Folklore -- British Columbia
• Folklore -- Bulgaria
• Folklore -- Canada
• Folklore -- China
• Folklore -- Classification
• Folklore -- Computer network resources
• Folklore -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Folklore -- Congresses
• Folklore -- Croatia
• Folklore -- Cuba
• Folklore -- Denmark
• Folklore -- Dictionaries
• Folklore -- East Asia
• Folklore -- Egypt
• Folklore -- Encyclopedias
• Folklore -- England
• Folklore -- Estonia
• Folklore -- Europe
• Folklore -- Europe, Eastern
• Folklore -- Fieldwork
• Folklore -- Fiji
• Folklore -- Finland
• Folklore -- France
• Folklore -- Georgia
• Folklore -- Germany
• Folklore -- Great Britain
• Folklore -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
• Folklore -- Greece
• Folklore -- Greenland
• Folklore -- Haiti
• Folklore -- Hawaii
• Folklore -- History
• Folklore -- Hungary
• Folklore -- Idaho
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• Folklore -- Iran
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• Folklore -- Isle of Man
• Folklore -- Italy
• Folklore -- Jamaica
• Folklore -- Japan
• Folklore -- Kentucky
• Folklore -- Korea
• Folklore -- Lapland
• Folklore -- Liberia
• Folklore -- Library resources
• Folklore -- Literary collections
• Folklore -- Luxembourg
• Folklore -- Maine
• Folklore -- Malay Peninsula
• Folklore -- Malaysia
• Folklore -- Methodology
• Folklore -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Folklore -- Mexico
• Folklore -- Middle East
• Folklore -- Middle West
• Folklore -- Missouri
• Folklore -- Morocco
• Folklore -- Nebraska
• Folklore -- Netherlands
• Folklore -- New England
• Folklore -- New Guinea
• Folklore -- New York (State)
• Folklore -- North America
• Folklore -- North Carolina
• Folklore -- Norway
• Folklore -- Palestine
• Folklore -- Pennsylvania
• Folklore -- Performance
• Folklore -- Periodicals
• Folklore -- Philippines
• Folklore -- Poland
• Folklore -- Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
• Folklore -- Puerto Rico
• Folklore -- Research
• Folklore -- Romania
• Folklore -- Russia
• Folklore -- Russia (Federation)
• Folklore -- Scandinavia
• Folklore -- Scotland
• Folklore -- South Africa
• Folklore -- South America
• Folklore -- South Carolina
• Folklore -- Southern States
• Folklore -- Southwest, New
• Folklore -- Spain
• Folklore -- Study and teaching
• Folklore -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Folklore -- Sweden
• Folklore -- Switzerland
• Folklore -- Texas
• Folklore -- Turkey
• Folklore -- Uganda
• Folklore -- Ukraine
• Folklore -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
• Folklore -- United States
• Folklore -- Utah
• Folklore -- Wales
• Folklore -- West (U.S.)
• Folklore -- West Indies
• Folklore -- Yugoslavia
• Banshees
• Dwarfs (Folklore)
• Fairies
• Folk literature
• Folk literature -- History and criticism
• Folk music
• Folklore in art
• Folklore in literature
• Folklore in motion pictures
• Folklorists
• Geographical myths
• Giants (Folklore)
• Graffiti
• Grail
• Intercultural communication in folklore
• Kings and rulers -- Folklore
• Literature and folklore
• Monsters
• Public folklore
• Superstition
• Traditional medicine
• Tricksters
• Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
• African American women -- Folklore
• African Americans -- Folklore
• Ainu -- Folklore
• Algonquian Indians -- Folklore
• Alphabet -- Folklore
• Amulets -- Folklore
• Animals -- Folklore
• Arabs -- Folklore
• Balkan Peninsula -- Folklore
• Bantu-speaking peoples -- Folklore
• Basques -- Folklore
• Birds -- Folklore
• Blood -- Folklore
• Buriats -- Folklore
• Cahuilla Indians -- Folklore
• Catawba Indians -- Folklore
• Cattle guards -- Folklore
• Celts -- Folklore
• Charms -- Folklore
• Cherokee Indians -- Folklore
• Chilcotin Indians -- Folklore
• Childbirth -- Folklore
• Children -- Folklore
• Chinook Indians -- Folklore
• Chipewyan Indians -- Folklore
• Chuj Indians -- Guatemala -- San Mateo Ixtatán -- Folklore
• Chukchi -- Folklore
• Coast Salish Indians -- Folklore
• Cochiti Indians -- Folklore
• Coeur d'Alene Indians -- Folklore
• Cora Indians -- Folklore
• Cowichan Indians -- Folklore
• Cree Indians -- Folklore
• Crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Folklore
• Czechs -- Folklore
• Dakota Indians -- Folklore
• Dead -- Folklore
• Death -- Folklore
• Delaware Indians -- Folklore
• Dogs -- Folklore
• Eskimos -- Folklore
• Excretion -- Folklore
• Eye -- Folklore
• Families -- Folklore
• Finno-Ugrians -- Folklore
• Fishers -- Folklore
• Fishing -- Folklore
• Food -- Folklore
• Gems -- Folklore
• Germanic peoples -- Folklore
• Haida Indians -- Folklore
• Herbs -- Folklore
• Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 -- Knowledge -- Folklore
• Hidatsa Indians -- Folklore
• Hindus -- Folklore
• Hopi Indians -- Folklore
• Indians -- Folklore
• Indians of Central America -- Folklore
• Indians of Mexico -- Folklore
• Indians of North America -- Folklore
• Indians of South America -- Folklore
• Iroquois Indians -- Folklore
• Jews -- Folklore
• Jews, Moroccan -- Israel -- Shelomi -- Folklore
• Kalapuya Indians -- Folklore
• Kalispel Indians -- Folklore
• Kanarese (Indic people) -- Folklore
• Kongo (African people) -- Folklore
• Kurds -- Folklore
• Kwakiutl Indians -- Folklore
• Latter Day Saints -- Folklore
• Leopard -- Folklore
• Loggers -- Folklore
• Māori (New Zealand people) -- Folklore
• Maidu Indians -- Folklore
• Malecite Indians -- Folklore
• Man-woman relationships -- Folklore
• Mandan Indians -- Folklore
• May (Month) -- Folklore
• Mayas -- Folklore
• Mdewakanton Indians -- Folklore
• Merina (Malagasy people) -- Folklore
• Mexican Americans -- Folklore
• Micmac Indians -- Folklore
• Miners -- United States -- Folklore
• Mines and mineral resources -- United States -- Folklore
• Miwok Indians -- Folklore
• Mongols -- Folklore
• Moon -- Folklore
• Navajo Indians -- Folklore
• Nez Percé Indians -- Folklore
• Nuxalk Indians -- Folklore
• Ocean -- Folklore
• Ojibwa Indians -- Folklore
• Okanagan Indians -- Folklore
• Ottawa Indians -- Folklore
• Palestinian Arabs -- Folklore
• Panjabis (South Asian people) -- Folklore
• Pariahs -- Folklore
• Passamaquoddy Indians -- Folklore
• Pennsylvania Dutch -- Folklore
• Penobscot Indians -- Folklore
• Pima Indians -- Folklore
• Plants -- Folklore
• Pomo Indians -- Folklore
• Pueblo Indians -- Folklore
• Readers -- Folklore
• Rings -- Folklore
• Romanies -- Folklore
• Sailors -- Folklore
• Salishan Indians -- Folklore
• San (African people) -- Folklore
• Seasons -- Folklore
• Seneca Indians -- Folklore
• Serpents -- Folklore
• Sex -- Folklore
• Shahaptian Indians -- Folklore
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Folklore
• Shapeshifting -- Folklore
• Ships -- Folklore
• Shoshoni Indians -- Folklore
• Siksika Indians -- Folklore
• Slavs -- Folklore
• Spring -- Folklore
• Stars -- Folklore
• Stone -- Folklore
• Sun -- Folklore
• Supernatural -- Folklore
• Swahili-speaking peoples -- Folklore
• Tlingit Indians -- Folklore
• Trees -- Folklore
• Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Folklore
• Tsimshian Indians -- Folklore
• Utah -- Folklore
• Vai (African people) -- Folklore
• Vampires -- India -- Folklore
• Victims of crimes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Folklore
• Vikings -- Folklore
• Water -- Folklore
• Weather -- Folklore
• Winnebago Indians -- Folklore
• Wolves -- Folklore
• Women -- Folklore
• Xhosa (African people) -- Folklore
• Yaqui Indians -- Folklore
• Yuma Indians -- Folklore
• Zuni Indians -- Folklore

• Folk beliefs
• Folk-lore
• Traditions

• Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1995), ed. by Barbara Walker (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Alan Dundes, ed. by Simon J. Bronner
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society #55; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c1997), ed. by Francis Edward Abernethy (page images at unt.edu)
• Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society (partial serial archives)
• A Book of Folk-Lore, by S. Baring-Gould (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethnology in Folklore (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892), by George Laurence Gomme
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, by Thomas Keightley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Folk Tales From Many Lands (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1910]), by Lilian Gask, illust. by Willy Pogány (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Folklore as an Historical Science (London: Methuen and Co., 1908), by George Laurence Gomme (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• An Introduction to Folk-Lore (London: David Nutt, 1895), by Marian Roalfe Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Magic of the Horse-Shoe. With Other Folk-Lore Notes, by Robert Means Lawrence (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London: Printed for the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., 1881), by John Aubrey, ed. by James Britten
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale, by Edward Clodd (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Die Polyphemsage in der Volksüberlieferung (in German; Helsinki: Frenckellska Tryckeri-Aktiebolaget, 1904), by Oskar Hackman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World: A Comprehensive Library of Human Belief and Practice in the Mysteries of Life (3 volumes; Chicago and Milwaukee: J. H. Yewdale and Sons co., c1903), ed. by Cora Linn Daniels and C. M. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts (continually updated anthology), ed. by D. L. Ashliman (HTML at Pitt)
• Greek Folk-Songs From the Ottoman Provinces of Northern Hellas (with essays on paganism and folklore; second edition; London: Ward and Downey, 1888), ed. by John S. Stuart-Glennie, trans. by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry into Fairy Mythology, by Edwin Sidney Hartland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Strange Story Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Symbolism of the East and West (London: G. Redway, 1900), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley, contrib. by George C. M. Birdwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations (London et al.: G. Routledge And Sons, 1894), ed. by E. F. King
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Natural Genesis (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1883), by Gerald Massey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• This Way to Christmas (based on the 1916 edition, with commentary), by Ruth Sawyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Curiosities of Olden Times (London: J. T. Hayes; New York: Pott and Amery, 1869), by S. Baring-Gould
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Curiosities of Olden Times (revised and enlarged edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Launcelot D. Dowdall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• We Two in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Decima Moore and Frederick Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (Boston and New York: Pub. for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; et al, 1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Sawin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Aladdin (London: Yorkshire J. S. Pub. and Stationery Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Old style series #11; Ardrossan, Scotland: A. Guthrie, 1864) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aladdin, or, the Wonderful Lamp (London: W. S. Johnson, ca. 1846) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sinbad the Sailor (London: Yorkshire J.S. Publishing and Stationery Co., 1840) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Shared Space: Folklife in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), by James S. Griffith (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being The Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona, by John William Lloyd (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Folklore of Romantic Arkansas (2 volumes; New York: The Grolier Society, 1931), by Fred W. Allsopp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1889), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com

• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1897), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies, by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies (London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• More Australian Legendary Tales: Collected From Various Tribes (with illustrations by a native artist; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1898), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1922), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustarted HTML

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