Here one may find all manner of links pretainign to folklore. Below is a menu that will take you to the various different categories of links.

• Ethnic Cultural Traditions
• Family Folklore
• Fieldwork Resources
• Folklore Archives
• Folklore Festivals
• International Folklore Sites
• Middle Atlantic Folklore Resources (NY-NC)
• National Folklore Organizations
• Publications in Folklore
• Spirit World: Ghosts, Fairies and Beyond
• Stories & Storytelling
• State & Regional Folklore Sites
• Teaching Resources
• Traditional Arts & Poetry

Ethnic Cultural Traditions

• African American Traditions
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology, University of Virginia
• Filipino American Traditions
• Indian American Traditions
• Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
• Korean American Traditions
• Homepage of Korean Folktales
• Korean Traditional Arts in Puget Sound, WA (WSAC)
• Vietnamese American Traditions
• Dr. Phong Nguyen's web site on traditional and folk music from Vietnam

• Family Folklore: How to Collect Your Own Family Folklore
• Family Folklore: Interviewing Guide and Questionnaire

 

• Folklife and Fieldwork. A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques

• Acadian Archives , University of Maine, Fort Kent
• Central California Folklore Archives
• Fife Folklore Archive , Utah State University
• Maine Folklife Center: Archives
• Niagara Frontier Folklore Archives, State University of New York College at Buffalo
• Philadelphia Folklore Project Archives
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project , University of Virginia
• Rio Grande Folklore Archive, Texas-Pan American University
• Southern Folklore Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• UCLA - Folklore & Mythology Archives
• University of Virginia Folklore Archive
• WWW Virtual Library: Archives X, Paranormal Phenomena

• The Louisiana Folklife Festival
• Institute of Texan Cultures: Texas Folklife Festival
• Ferrum Folklife Festival

• Baltic Institute of Folklore
• Danish Folklore Archives
• Elektro/Lorisi Folklore Links
• Estonian Folklore Archives
• The Provincial Museum of Alberta: Human history, folklife, research and projects
• Slavic and East European Folklore Association

• Delaware
• Delaware State Parks: Folklife Programs

• New Hampshire
• Ryan J. Thomson: Fiddler

 
• North Carolina
• The North Carolina Folklore Society

• Maine
• Explore Portland, Maine
• Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum

• Virginia
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Virginia Folklife Society

 
• Washington, DC
• DC Blues Society Home Page:  lists music groups
• Folklore Society of Greater Washington
• Joe Shelby's Index Page  Lists Various Celtic Activities in the Washington, DC area, includes music and dances

• West Virginia
• Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

American Anthropological Association

American Folk

American Folklore Society

Library of Congress: The American Folklife Center

National Museum of American Art

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Smithsonian Institution Center for Cultural Studies:  features Folklife Festivals, Talk Story (newsletter), and Archives

Smithsonian Institutional History Division: Oral History and Video collections

Society for American Archaeology

Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts

The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog

Essays in History: University of Virginia

Hale Pai: Pacific American News Journal

Journal of American Folklore

Mississippi Folklife, formerly the Mississippi Folklore Register

Visual Anthropology Review:   Journal of Society for Visual Anthropology

 

• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, edited and/or translated by D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
• Mything Links An annotated and Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairytales and Folklore, and Sacred Arts and Traditions (Kathleen Jenks, Pacifica Graduate Institute)
• Myths and Legends, an annotated list of links

• Cinderella
• The Cinderella Bibliography at The Camelot Project
• Contemporary Legends
• The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's Urban Legends Reference Pages

• For a list of web sites on folk and traditional arts programs in state arts see: Tapnet Links

• American Folklife Center:  A Teacher's Guide to Folklore Resources for K-12 Classrooms
• CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students

• Quilts & Quilting
• Library of Congress: Quilts and Quilt making in America - 1978-1996
• Women & Geometry: An Archive of American Patchwork Designs
• Traditional Poetry
• Western Folklife Center: Cowboy Poets on the Internet

Storyteller by Judy Toya of the Towa Puebla of Jemez. Pottery. About 1987.

Mukluks made by Central Yup'ik woman artist from Unalakleet, AK. Seal, beaver skins and polyester. 1984. (Artist's name confidential).

GMU student dyes a folklore classmate's hand with henna, teaching a woman's artform associated with weddings. 1999. (Artist's name confidential). (Margaret Yocom Photo)

Students decorate the George Mason statue in the flags of many nations during International Week in April. 2000. (Margaret Yocom Photo)