There are some high-quality folklore resources available on the World Wide Web. The photo I used to dress up this page shows a group of children celebrating a birthday in front of the B.F. Nesbitt home about 1920. They are dancing around a May pole. The streamers are interwoven by the girls dancing one direction and the boys the other. This Old English custom enjoyed new popularity from the 1890s to the 1940s. Photo: Lewis Library Collection. Text: Vincennes: A Pictorial History, by Richard Day (Bradley Publishing, St. Louis, 1988).
Some of these links are out of date. I will try to update them as time allows.
Links to World Wide Web Sites
Folklore, Myth, and Legend, which is a collection of links (mostly to online folktale texts) compiled by David K. Brown, University of Calgary.
Indo-European Folk and Fairy Tales, WWW links compiled by D. L. Ashliman.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, edited or compiled by D. L. Ashliman.
The Southwestern Virginia Ghost Hunters Society Home Page: Here is an endlessly fascinating site which is doing in West Virginia what I am trying to do for Knox County. They began their site with only four ghost stories and were quickly inundated with hundreds of them. This site is definitely worth a look.
UFO-Free Paranormal Page. This is the official site for the alt.folklore.ghost-stories FAQ. Other features on this page include "Ghost Stories From the Net" (over 500 stories collected since 1993), a large number of paranormal links, and many other files relating to ghosts and hauntings.
Folklore Electronic Reference Tools
The Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, and Legend.
Work Projects Administration (WPA) Life Histories Home Page - Library of Congress' electronic collection of 2,900 documents representing the work of 300 writers from 24 states. Items are searchable by region, state, and by full-text.
Mary's Gardens Home Page - Folklore of Flowers
Native American Folktales and Literature
Christmas traditions in France and Canada discusses family celebrations, religious ceremonies, and communal festivities from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Song of Roland offers the text of Charles Scott Moncrief's translation of this anonymous old French epic.
Indiana-Related Web Resource
Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music
Indiana University Oral History Research Center
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