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- African-American Almanac: Folktales - Large number of Afro-American folktales.
www.toptags.com/aama/tales/tales.htm
- American Folklore - Folktales, myths, legends, tall tales and ghost stories from each of the 50 states, as well as sections on Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James.
www.americanfolklore.net
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940 - Collection of typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
- Arizona Ghost Stories - True Arizona ghost stories submitted by readers.
www.concentric.net/~xymetrix/ghosts/ghosts.shtml
- Bawdy Ballads and Far-Fetched Folklore - An Oral History of Rural North Carolina - Ballads and folktales, including an interactive section.
www.ibiblio.org/bawdy
- Folk Lore and the Civil War - Listing of publications on folklore of the Civil War, presented by Frank de Caro.
www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/inter-aspects/lorepaper.htm
- Folklore, Legends, Tall Tales - An Interactive Case Book for Ford Knox County, Indiana - Stories gathered from old newspaper clippings as well as stories submitted by WWW readers.
rking.vinu.edu/folklore.htm
- Haitian Proverbs, Riddles, Jokes and Folktales - Collection compiled by Bob Corbett (in Creole and English).
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/008.html
- Jamaica Anansi Stories - By Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), with music and riddles; e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas
- Las Lloronas - The Crying Women - Hispanic ghost stories of women betrayed by love and lovers.
www.angelfire.com/ok/sayona
- Livia de Almeida's Home for Brazilian Stories - Featuring a halloween tale, the legend of The Three Wishes, and a Bororo myth, "How the Stars Came To Be."
www.tiac.net/users/papajoe/toolbox/guests/livia/home.htm
- Louisiana Langiappe - Louisiana ghost stories, traiteur tales, lore, and tales from the African tradition.
www.nicholls.edu/engl-wsr/louisiana
- Magic Tales of Mexico - Tales from the Texas Mexican border, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova Jr.
www.g-world.org/magictales/magictales.shtml
- Mules and Men - African American folklore collected by famous folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1935.
xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index.html
- Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore - Songs, stories, placenames and jokes from Newfoundland.
www.wordplay.com/tourism/folklore.html
- Ohio Urban, Suburban and Rural Legends and Folklore - Legends and folktales from Ohio towns and neighborhoods.
www.zonefreecleveland.com/urban_&_suburban_legends.htm
- Puerto Rican Folktales - Curriculum by Doris M. Vazquez, offering an introduction to Puerto Rican storytelling, with sample tales, and annotated bibliography.
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html
- Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana - Multimedia website examining Louisiana's cultural diversity through its traditional storytellers.
www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories
- The Boy & The Devil - A Cuento from the Texas borderland.
www.rain.org/~galvan/boydevil.html
- The Devil Does A Good Deed - Excerpted from the book "Mexican Folk Tales", by Anthony John Campos.
www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam82.htm
- The Texas & Oklahoma Campfire Tales - Regional folklore and legends from the Texas and Oklahoma area; topics include ghostly apparitions, mysterious creatures, and strange sightings.
members.tripod.com/oklatexcampfire
- Uncle Remus - History and ethnology research project of Joe Harris' tales of Uncle Remus; includes selected texts.
xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/remus.html
- Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project - An ongoing undertaking to collect, preserve and make better known the folklore, especially the folksongs, of Americans in war.
faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs
- Welcome to the Banks of the Mississippi River - Three sample stories of upper Mississippi river lore, from the book "Wildcat Whistle" by Phil Hoebing.
websites.quincy.edu/~hoebiph
- White Cong and Black Clap: The Ambient Truth of Vietnam War Legendry - Article by John Baky discussing legendary motifs occurring in print and opinion about the Vietnam war.
lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html
- Yaffles & Yaffles - Baccalieu Trail fairy stories (Newfoundland).
www3.nf.sympatico.ca/mayad/fairies
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