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» 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.
http://www.americanfolklore.net/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

» 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.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

» AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults
Annotated materials, folklore texts and original literature from and about the southern Appalachian region.
http://www.ferrum.edu/AppLit/

» Bawdy Ballads and Far-Fetched Folklore - An Oral History of Rural North Carolina
Ballads and folktales, including an interactive section.
http://www.ibiblio.org/bawdy/

» 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.
http://rking.vinu.edu/folklore.htm

» Gullah Tales
Tales and traditions of the African-American communities on the South Carolina and Georgia Sea islands.
http://www.knowitall.org/gullahtales/

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/008.html

» Haitian Proverbs, Riddles, Jokes and Folktales
Collection compiled by Bob Corbett (in Creole and English).
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/008.html

» Index of Appalachian Folktales Listed by Tale Title
Bibliography, tale types, and abstracts of tales.
http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/

» Jamaica Anansi Stories
By Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), with music and riddles; e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/

» Las Lloronas - The Crying Women
Hispanic ghost stories of women betrayed by love and lovers.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/sayona/

http://www.nicholls.edu/engl-wsr/louisiana/

» Louisiana Langiappe
Louisiana ghost stories, traiteur tales, lore, and tales from the African tradition.
http://www.nicholls.edu/engl-wsr/louisiana/

» Magic Tales of Mexico
Tales from the Texas Mexican border, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova Jr.
http://www.g-world.org/magictales/magictales.shtml

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index.html

» Mules and Men
African American folklore collected by famous folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1935.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index.html

» Paul Bunyan - The Giant Lumberjack
Illustrated version of the American tall tale.
http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/talltale.html

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html

» Puerto Rican Folktales
Curriculum by Doris M. Vazquez, offering an introduction to Puerto Rican storytelling, with sample tales, and annotated bibliography.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html

http://www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories/

» Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
Multimedia website examining Louisiana's cultural diversity through its traditional storytellers.
http://www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories/

» The Boy & The Devil
A Cuento from the Texas borderland.
http://www.rain.org/~galvan/boydevil.html

» Thinkquest: ChiloÃ©, A Land of Myths and Legend
Student project outlining legends from ChiloÃ© Island in the south of Chile.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005968F/

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/remus.html

» Uncle Remus
History and ethnology research project of Joe Harris' tales of Uncle Remus; includes selected texts.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/remus.html

http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/

» 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.
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html

» 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.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html

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