Folklore Web Resources

• Archives of Folklore
  This site hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the internet's longest-running discussion-list on folklore, from 1991 to the present.

• African-American Almanac: Folktales
  Read a large number of folktales.

• African American Folklore Resources
  Questia has books and journal articles on African-American folklore.

• American Folklore Center
  From the Library of Congress.

• American Life Histories
  Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project.

• Ask a Folklore Expert at UCLA
  Web-based email form to ask a question about folklore.

• Folklife and Fieldword
  Published at the Library of Congress web site.

• Folklore and Legends
  The place to discover the interesting and beautiful myths and legends behind every day things.

• Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms
  Published at the Library of Congress web site.

• Journal of American Folklore
  From the American Folklore Society.

• What is Folklore?
  From the New York Folklore Society.

Folklore Books

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1944). A Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1955). A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore. New York: American Legacy Press.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1965) A Treasury of New England Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1953). A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1949) A Treasury of Southern Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1975) A Treasury of Western Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

Coffin, T. P. and Cohen, H. (1966). Folklore in America. New York: Doubleday & AMP, Company, Inc.

Dolch, E.W. and Dolch, M. P. Stories from Hawaii. Champaign, IL:Garrad Publishing Co.

Dorson, R.M. (1973). America in Legend. New York: Pantheon Books.

Editors of Life. (1961). The Life Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Time Incorporated.

Flanagan, J.T. and Hudson, A.P. (1958). The American Folk Reader. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co

Leach, M. (1958). The Rainbow Book of American folk Tales and Legends. New York: The World Publishing Company.

Polley, J. (Ed.). (1978). American Folklore and Legend. New York: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

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