Literature

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» 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 Home Page - Online course materials offered by the College of Siskiyous.
» Folklore and Myth, Fables and Tall Tales - Folktales and proverbs from around the world, and reference lists of deities and legendary creatures and lands.
» 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 Encyclopedia Mythica - On-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, containing definitions of deities, fabulous creatures and places, as well as images and stories.
» The Solar Wheel Award - List of links to 1998 and 1999 award winning websites for folklore, myth and legend.
» The TENT Archive - Texts and explorations of narrative traditions, ranging from oral epic poetry to folk tales.
» 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).