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Becka's Mythology Pages
Covering mythical creatures, retellings of folktales, and a section on lost lands.
http://www.rebecca.sutton.care4free.net/ |
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1401/urbanlegends.html |
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Folklore
Online course materials by Mary Magoulick, Georgia College and State University.
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~mmagouli/folklore.htm |
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Windsor Castle
Extensive collection of traditional and modern wisdom, tales and lore (in Norwegian and English).
http://oaks.nvg.org/index.html |
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Folklore Home Page
Online course materials offered by the College of Siskiyous.
http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/engl12/ |
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Oral History Online
Research tool indexing oral history collections in English around the world, linking through to the full text where available.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/oralhist/ |
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The Solar Wheel Award
List of links to 1998 and 1999 award winning websites for folklore, myth and legend.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2791/ |
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An Introduction to Folktales
Discusses the dichotomy between myths, legends, and fairy tales with examples of each.
http://www.geocities.com/folk_king2003/ |
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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.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/form2.htm |
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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.
http://digilander.libero.it/cfgames2000/ |
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Traditional Literature
Outlines the origins and characteristics of folktales, and the various genres of traditional literature.
http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/tradlit.html |
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Folklore and Myth, Fables and Tall Tales
Folktales and proverbs from around the world, and reference lists of deities and legendary creatures and lands.
http://folkloreandmyth.netfirms.com/ |
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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.
http://www.pantheon.org/ |
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Small Forms of Verbal Folklore
Discussing several minor forms such as proverbs, riddles, oaths and calls, with examples from Lithuanian folklore.
http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/verbalf/smallfolk.html |
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Terror and Taboo in Russian Childlore
Course materials on Russian and American folklore, focussing on childlore, to determine the role of folklore in society.
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~jl2j/Terror/slfk203.htm |
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Fool's Paradise - Tons-o-Trickster!
Bibliography and large list of links exploring the complex mythic/archetypal figure of Trickster.
http://members.aol.com/pmichaels/glorantha/foolsparadise.html |
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The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought
Study by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896) into the history of childhood (PDF files).
http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/Child.html |
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Oral Lore
Listing of categories and examples of oral lore.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/orallist.html |
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My Folklore Courses Home Page
Online course materials including overviews and definitions, from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~zharuna/ |
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Forms of Folklore, The Verbal Arts
Arizona University lecture course examining form and function of the traditional verbal arts.
http://www.elearn.arizona.edu/sfair/eng449home.html |
Additional
Information: Folk literature (oral literature, "orature") comprises the verbal forms of folklore, and includes larger narratives such as folktales, and smaller forms such as proverbs, riddles, and rhymes.
Although usually transmitted by word of mouth, some for
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