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	Folklore: What is it?
		It is the stories of loggers and miners and their work-a-day language, the fiddle tunes of British Columbia, the planting seasons in the Peace District and the Chilkat blankets of the north-west.
		It is the tales of hardship and humour of British Columbia's lesser known communities such as the Finns and the Hawaiians who came here in the 19th century and brought with them their folktales and traditions.
		For instance, oral literature is one of the aspects of folklore, and by oral literature we mean such things as legends, tales, proverbs, sayings, dialect speech and folksongs.
	www.folklore.bc.ca /Whatsfolk.htm (559 words)

	British folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		British Columbia Folklore Society Dedicated to the collection and preservation of the traditional and contemporary folk culture, folklife, ad folklore of the people of British Columbia, Canada.
		Folklore of the Gaels of Ireland and the Highlands Collection of Celtic folkbeliefs and superstitions.
		American Folklore Society Founded in 1888, the AFS publishes the prestigious quartlerly Journal of American Folklore and works to further the discipline of folklore studies, to improve the professional well-being of its members, and to increase the respect given to diverse cu
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-British_folklore.html (382 words)

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		I have concluded that folklore and folkloristics (a term recently adapted from European usage to refer to the study of folklore) are absent from cultural studies discussions and programs in England because they are inadequately or wrongly understood--yes, in the land of their origins.
		Folklore sees culture as consisting of three interacting spheres--academic, popular, and folk--each one of which is characterized by a different meansof transmission.
		Folklore will acknowledge that, in its analysis of culture, it is not always resistant, it limits its concerns to one cultural sphere--the oral traditional one--and it often ignores the academic and popular cultures that impinge upon it and overlap with it.
	www.goshen.edu /english/ervinb/FolkloreBritish.htm (2742 words)

	Mirago : Society: Folklore: Organizations
		American Folklore Society - Founded in 1888, the AFS publishes the quartlerly Journal of American Folklore and works to further the discipline of folklore studies, to improve the professional well-being of its members, and to increase the respect given to diverse cultures and their traditions.
		Folklore Society of Greater Washington DC - Furthering the understanding, appreciation, and performance of traditional folk music and folklore, the FSGW sponsors over 200 events in the DC area each year, including festivals, concerts, dances, and swaps; the site also includes a lenthy list of folk music links.
		Virginia Folklore Society - Non-profit organization founded in 1913 and dedicated to the discovery, collection, publication, and preservation of folklore and traditional culture in Virginia and to furthering the understanding, appreciation, and performance of traditional arts and crafts of the State.
	www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Society/Folklore/Organizations (954 words)

	Re: autentiska folklora
		In a 1960 critique of Dorson's book American Folklore a Harvard professor of American Civilisation wrote that folklore was, "The most sentimental, and the most anti-intellectual scholarly discipline in America today." The word "folklore" was first coined in 1846 and began as a study of antiquities.
		Folklore is all of these things but it is much more and a great deal of it relates to our daily lives.
		It is the tales of hardship and > humour of British Columbia's lesser known communities such as the Finns and > the Hawaiians who came here in the 19th century and brought with them their > folktales and traditions.
	folklora.lv /vestkopas/folkloristi/delis.cgi?read=367 (1345 words)

	Trexle - Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		British Columbia Folklore Society - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
		Journal of Folklore Research - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
		The Hebridean Folklore Project - Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world.
	www.trexle.com /Directory/Top/Society/Folklore (584 words)

	foamy custard: an overview of folklore theory
		British folklore never became an '-ology' (ethnology cannot be regarded as an exact synonym) and became the realm of the amateur rather than the academic.
		Given the lack of theory in British folklore for much of the twentieth century, some might think it better if 'folklore studies' had disappeared and been replaced with 'ethnology', suitably encompassed within the discipline of anthropology and bolstered by the debates about methodology and theory that have, quite appropriately, been part-and-parcel of that discipline.
		The academic study of folklore is far healthier in America than in Britain – by 1986 there were sixteen North American universities offering degrees in folklore and another eighty offering folklore as a component of degrees; a further five hundred colleges and universities offered other kinds of folklore course (Oring 1986: ix).
	www.indigogroup.co.uk /foamycustard/fc003.htm (4010 words)

	An Axis Jump: British Colonialism in the Oral Folk Narratives of Nineteenth-Century India Folklore - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the context of colonial British scholarship of Indian folklore, this axis comprises the British folklore collectors and the Indian narrators.
		The history of folklore research has shown that, since the inception of the science, the definition of "folklore" flows from the scholar's definition of "folk," and that folklore collections cannot be defined only by what they include, but have to be defined also by what they exclude (Naithani 1996, 75).
		British collectors of Indian folklore were also administrators, and their narrators were their colonial subjects; their folklore collections had intentional, incidental and potential administrative implications.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_112/ai_79548471 (865 words)

	British Vampire Folklore
		The return of a phantom from beyond the grave is a common motif in most cultures, but folklore also tells of animated corpses returning in the small hours, and spreading disease to the living population.
		Some of the aforementioned British stories echo the more famous tale of Arnold Paole from Austria, which was recorded in an Austrian Army Officers account from the 1700's, and is one of the earliest stories about a supposed vampire.
		Stoker brought together many seperate strands of folklore for his book, and is responsible for defining the image of the vampire, which remains to this day.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /folklore/vampire.html (1514 words)

	Mythology, Folklore & Legends
		Folklore Studies Association of Canada - founded for the purpose of increasing education and research in the field of folklore studies in all its aspects.
		Gazetteer of British Ghosts - a gazetter of ghosts, legends and paranormal phenomena in the United Kingdom.
		Folklore Society of Greater Washington - to further the understanding, appreciation, and performance of the traditional folk music and folklore of the American people.
	www.partyguideonline.com /cultures/mythology/mythology.html (2537 words)

	Science and folklore
		Science is one version of the story and mythology and folklore are another, but they convey different truths about the underlying reality.
		Mythology and folklore are true in the sense that they resonate with our experience.
		It is often used as a stick to maintain the boundaries of discourse, applying the label “unscientific” as an insult to anyone who strays beyond the edge of the path.
	staff.bath.ac.uk /ccsya/scifo.htm (1691 words)

	Heart of Albion Press: Reviews of Explore Folklore
		Explore Folklore takes us on a journey from the beginnings of folklore studies, when the enlightened gentry thought it amusing to study the quaint ways of the peasantry, t the present day understanding that none of us are safe from folklore and everyone is fair game for study.
		The author outlines the history of folklore studies, and discusses the ideas of the main academic folklorists and other theoretical frameworks that have over time proven useful to the study of folklore, as well as notions tat have taken root in the popular consciousness and which are themselves essentially folklore.
		Folklore has long cried out for an introductory text such as this – one that not only introduces the material but also suggests ways of looking at it and gives the background to those insights and ideas, while explaining why other theories are found wanting.
	www.hoap.co.uk /exforev.htm (845 words)

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		In folklore, fairies are mainly felt to be charitable to humans.
		Folklore speaks of leaving small trinkets as gifts to fairies, such as small beads and dainty deserts, to gain their favor.
		The word folklore was coined by William Thoms in England as early as 1848.
	www.lycos.com /info/fairies-fabulous-creature--folklores.html (450 words)

	Folk narrative research in Wales at the beginning of the twentieth century: the influence of John Rhys Folklore - Find ...
		Less often noted, however, are his contributions to folklore studies both as a collector and as an influence on other writers, popular as well as academic.
		This history of British folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasises the great collecting work of scholars associated with The Folklore Society and, more importantly, the theoretical innovations that supported their work (Dorson 1968a, 343-435).
		Nevertheless, Rhys's collection, Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx, published in 1901, contains a substantial body of Welsh-language texts, and his work as a folklorist, both as a collector and through his use of what were then innovative theoretical assumptions to explain this material, is certainly worth closer examination.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_3_116/ai_n15924451 (953 words)

	Lang, Andrew Biography \| eorl_08_package.xml
		He was among the founders of the British Folklore Society and near the end of his life was president of the Society for Psychical Research.
		At a time when the growing British and American intelligentsia were intensely interested in issues of science and scholarship, Lang's penetrating intellect and skillful writing made him a leading figure, especially in the newly developing fields of anthropology, folklore, and history of religions.
		Although he treated ghost stories as a form of folklore, he thought that the psychological experience that gave rise to them might have some foundation in reality and that it might have been the original source of religious belief.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/lang-andrew-eorl-08 (898 words)

	Folklore and Popular Culture
		Published for the American Folklore Society, this journal provided an annotated bibliography of articles published on a wide variety of topics in folklore.
		Provides an "information outlet for women in the field and for those interested in the folklore of women." Provides announcements of the association, abstracts of papers read at the annual meeting, articles and bibliographies on folklore of women, discussion of courses in women's folklore, research in progress, and good critical book reviews.
		Published by the Indiana University Folklore Institute, this journal is international in scope and is a particularly good source of information about folklore research in other countries.
	www.amst.umd.edu /Research/serial/folk.html (646 words)

	The Folklore of Britain
		The British Isles has a rich diversity of folklore, stemming in part from the mix of cultural identity from region to region.
		Britain has had a turbulent history, were invaders and settlers have brought with them their own beliefs and lore, which have become amalgamated into older traditions.
		Regarding the creatures of folklore, every county has its own variant of the fairies, and the traces of god and goddess cults from the remote past can be gleaned from some of the creatures that haunt these Isles.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /folklore/folklore.html (151 words)

	Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Society and Culture: Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dragon's Hoard - The Folklore of British Holy Wells · cached · Article on the folklore surrounding these wells, by Rowan in the White Dragon e-zine.
		Folklore Society · cached · Devoted to the study of traditional arts and crafts, customs, beliefs and folk medicine.
		The Folklore of the British Isles · cached · Examines the folklore, tales and supernatural creatures of England, Scotland and Wales.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=945762 (183 words)

	Black Dogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Phantom fl dogs have been witnessed too frequently in modern times to parcel the phenomena as pure folklore and legend, but then folklore and legend often has origins in real events.
		In British and Scandinavian folklore, "grim" is a generic name for a spirit which associates with humanity and human dwellings.
		The hell hounds of folklore are not as individually powerful as those in generic fantasy; they are normally no larger or stronger than normal hounds, and like normal hounds they run in packs, often of a dozen or more.
	www.tartanthemes.com /blackdogs.htm (548 words)

	Antlion Pit: Folklore
		Since most people's experiences with antlions begin in childhood (see Antlion Anecdotes), it is not surprising that antlion folklore typically takes the form of chanted verses, or charms, typically taught to children by their parents or other children.
		According to Sinhalese folklore, children enjoy placing a bingundha (antlion) in their hands and, as it moves round and round, singing "bingundo bolla bingunodo ubath natapan math natam." The English translation is: "antlion, if you dance I will also dance."
		Naturally, such long periods of British rule gave ample opportunity for the English language and folk customs to root themselves or be adopted by indigenous peoples.
	www.antlionpit.com /folklore.html (2071 words)

	Black Dogs, Church Grims and Hell Hounds: Supernatural Canines in British Folklore
		Many fl dogs are unaffected by physical attacks in any case; in the stories this reflects their supernatural nature, and in game terms they might be unharmed by non-magical weapons and attack forms, or have an enhanced DR beyond that offered by their thick coats.
		In British and Scandinavian folklore, "grim" is a generic name for a spirit which associates with humanity and human dwellings.
		The hell hounds of folklore are not as individually powerful as those in generic fantasy; they are normally no larger or stronger than normal hounds, and like normal hounds they run in packs, often of a dozen or more.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer30/GhostDogs.html (2342 words)

	Directory - Society: Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Archives of Folklore Discussion List · cached · Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
		British Columbia Folklore Society · cached · A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
		The Hebridean Folklore Project · cached · Run by volunteers to keep Scottish folklore alive and accessible, with the aim of relating Scottish culture around the world.
	beta.exactseek.com /exact/seek/search/Society/Folklore.485595 (538 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - British Columbia
		British Columbia Archival Union List A database of fonds and collection level descriptions of records held at 156 publicly-accessible archival repositories in the province.
		Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 An historical overview of electoral activities in the Province of British Columbia during the 115 year period from 1871 to 1986.
		CPR Employees in British Columbia in 1884 CPR Employees in 1884.
	www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/british-columbia.html (3115 words)

	British Crossroads
		Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford is a website dedicated to the Early Celtic Kingdoms of the British Isles and the historical King Arthur.
		Scottish Legends, Folklore, and Religion offers legends and fairytales, an essay on Celtic beliefs by S. McSkimming, information on festivals and celebrations such as Beltaine, and more.
		Manx Folklore includes the tale of how the Manx cat lost her tail and the Train's History of the Isle of Man (1845).
	www.mythiccrossroads.com /british.htm (1039 words)

	Department of Folklore \| Publication series
		An annotated collection of folklore from the Canadian Maritimes; includes bibliographical essays on the folktale in English, childlore, and proverbs.
		Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert--A Festschrift, 1980.
		Twenty-six essays on a variety of folklore topics from Canada, Britain and the United States by friends, colleagues and former students of Dr. Herbert Halpert.
	www.mun.ca /folklore/munfla/publication_series.php (489 words)

	Review, buy Folklore: Faithful John, Sources of Irish Traditional Music c. 1600-1855: An Annotated Catalogue of Prints ...
		The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences.
		Offering detailed coverage of all aspects of British folklore-from the beliefs of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in fairies, magic and witchcraft, to detailed histories of regional folktales and the creatures that inhabit them-these volumes are an essential resource for all serious folklore collections.
		9: The Folklore of Cotswolds [1974]Hb: 0-415-29156-9: 209pp: $90.
	booksall.net /folklore (2321 words)

	britconference06
		The last few years have seen some interesting new developments in the UK as British folklorists and scholars of British folklore have questioned old geographical and conceptual boundaries and borders, made new collaborations and encouraged fresh theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches.
		Folklore Studies as a discrete academic discipline continues to have a marginalized position in much of the UK university sector, but is integrated into a rapidly shifting range of cognate disciplinary areas, and we will be discussing some of these recent movements.
		The British Folk Studies conference is free of charge to UC Berkeley students, faculty, and alumni, and AFS, WSFS and Folklore Society (UK) members.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/folklore/britconference06.html (477 words)

	Redcap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A Redcap, also known as a "powrie," is a type of malevolent murderous Goblin, Elf or Fairy found in British folklore.
		Redcap is also a British Army nickname for a military policeman.
		Redcap was also the name of a popular BBC show in the eighties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Cap (288 words)

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