General Folklore and Mythology

Here you will find links to sites offering general or miscellaneous information about folklore and mythology.

• All about folktales by Linda Richter Neves is an essay discussing the origins and history of folktales.
• All Things Ancient by Kim and Michael Burkhard features a mythology reading list and other FAQs.
• Allusions in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by students at Brother Andre Catholic High School in Unionville, Ontario, Canada offers a synopsis of the Biblical and Mythical references in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an explication of their relationships to the characters, themes and plots.
• Animals, Myths and Legends offers stories about the relationship between animals and the world's indigenous peoples.
• Babel offers an encyclopedia about the myth of Babel from 5000 BC to the present as depicted in art, literature, and philosophy.
• Books by John Ollivier offers excerpts from his retellings of ancient myths in a kind of doggerel poetry.
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers an HTML conversion of the 1894 edition of E. Cobham Brewer's work.
• Bulfinch's Mythology offers the text to the sections of Bulfinch's famous work on mythology dealing with Charlemagne, Chivalry, and Fable.
• Catherina 's Myths in the Mist offers Greek, Egyptian, and Roman mythology.
• Classics in the W3: Religion and Mythology by J. G. Bodard offers annotated links to web sites about religion and mythology.
• Color Matters offers some folklore about the color green.
• Creation Stories and Traditional Wisdom offers a compendium of stories explaining creation and the relationship between humans, the environment, and the spirit world as told by children world-wide.
• Criss'Cross Road by PJCriss provides links to information about Native American tribes, Arthurian Legends, Mythology, and about Parapsychology. Includes descriptions of mythological characters from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Teutonic, Celtic, Babylonian, and Asian mythologies.
• Cultural Entomology Digest: Forth Issue March, 1997 offers articles on butterflies and moths in mythology.
• Death of the Mother: Wilderness, Narrativity, and the Maternal Body in Into the Woods offers a hypertext essay by Joel F. Burges.
• Dicer's Oath by W. J. Butler offers articles on religion and mythology. Currently includes information on the Egyptian goddess Isis.
• Earthlore Explorations seeks to preserve and transmit the collective cultural and spiritual heritage of all people into the digital information age. Offers information on gothic cathedrals, Egyptian temples, Irish megaliths, and much more.
• El Rincón Mitológico by Arturo Cuevas and Jesús Sosa (in Spanish) discusses mythology from around the world as well as the literary mythological worlds of Lovecraft and Tolkien.
• Fantasy and Myth by Mattias Sandström offers information about fantasy (primarily modern fantasy authors) and Norse mythology as well as links to related sites.
• flectere si nequeo superos acheronta mouebo by John-Gabriel Bodard offers magic bibliographies and resources, including web site links. Bibliographies include witches in Greek literature; necromancy; the anthropological approach; Greek magical papyri; Egyptian, Jewish, and other foreign religion and magic; and other useful studies.
• Flute's World of Myth, Creative Minds, and Chocolate has links to information on mythology and fantasy writers, among other things. Check out the "Mythology and the Arts" pages in particular.
• Folklife and Fieldwork by Peter Bartis offers an introduction to field techniques for the non-specialist. Talks about what to collect, whom to interview, how to do it, what to do with the results, and more. Includes a bibliography of recommended readings.
• Folklore: An Introduction by Cindy Landrum categorizes folklore into oral lore, social an folk custom, and material culture, with examples of each.
• Folklore and Folk Ways from Tree Leaves' Folk Fellowship discusses what folklore and folk studies are about.
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts offers texts translated or edited by D. L. Ashliman. Includes unfamiliar variants of familiar stories (e.g., a Swiss version of Cinderella) and much more.
• Folklore, folklife, and ethnomusicology (LC Marvel Gopher) offers links to electronic texts about folklore and mythology, folk music/song/instrument resources, quilt images from the Johns Hopkins University image archives, and more.
• Folklore, myths, and fairytales domain by Main offers links to many sites on these subjects.
• Folklore, Myth, and Legend by David K. Brown offers links to folklore stories and reference sources.
• Gods and Myth by Atanu offers an alphabetical database of gods, myths, legend. Part of an on-going project to list almost all major and minor deities and mythological figures.
• Gods Goddesses and Myths by Kat offers information on deities, myths, voodoo, dragons, the phoenix, mermaids, unicorns, the origins of the days of the week, Pegasus, and more.
• Gods of the IIB by J. R. Valverde offers brief descriptions of the the gods after which a cluster of computers has been named.
• Green: Mythological Booklist provides a list of books about mythology compiled by Michael and Kimberly Burkard.
• Iconography offers a bibliography for the study of iconography.
• Indigenous Peoples' Literature by Glenn Welker offers oral and written literature from all over the world. Includes many famous documents, quotes, information about great chiefs and leaders, music, poetry, stories, and much more.
• Indo-European folk and fairy tales: web site links is a compilation by D. L. Ashliman.
• James G. Frazer offers excerpts from the writings of this British mythographer, including "Sex and Vegetation" and "The Divine Nuptials."
• kalanu's Home Page offers links to paranormal, mythological, and "strange" web sites.
• Land Of Myth by MagicKeeper offers information on mythological creatures, gods, vampires, unicorns, and more.
• Legend and Mythology of the Seventh Son by Donald Woods looks at the background of the legends and folklore surrounding the Seventh Son.
• Legendary Site of the Week by Arthur Goldstuck offers an annotated list of links to mythology and folklore sites. New sites are highlighted for a week.
• Legends and Folklores and Myths, oh my! by Aileen offers categorized links to sites about these topics.
• Miti e Leggende dei popoli di tutto il mondo by Cristian Filagrossi (in Italian) offers information on the mythology of Ancient Greece and Medieval times.
• Mystical World Wide Web discusses a wide variety of mystical subjects, including legends and folklore, mythical animals, mystical places, and much more.
• Mythology offers Kathryn Huxtable's Pagan Bibliography which includes annotated listings of many works about mythology.
• Mythology from the University of Michigan discusses the relationship between natural objects such as the sun, moon, and planets and gods and goddesses. Also offers a family tree of Greek gods and goddesses and a clickable world map of myths.
• Mythology and Folklore by John Adcox offers annotated links to web sites about these topics.
• Mythology and Folklore by Eric Griffith at The University of Georgia Libraries offers annotated links to web sites about these topics.
• Mythology in Western Art by Ora Zehavi and Sonia Klinger offers digitized images of the main deities from various periods of Western art. Includes a bibliography.
• Mythology Notes by Richard McLaughlin offers a glossary of mythological terms, myths of the ancient Near East, myths of Scandinavia, and myths of the Celts.
• Mythos by Breno Xavier (in Portuguese) discusses classical, European, and Brazilian mythology.
• Myths offers the text of a lecture by Ricardo Nirenberg in which he suggests that "myth is a way of expressing, an attempt at communicating, the basic facts of our human condition."
• Chris Siren's Myths and Legends is a comprehensive list of Web sites with mythological information which covers some areas I don't, including Gothic horror, early fantasy and speculative fiction, and medieval and renaissance material.
• The New Mythology by Dominic Sagolla discusses how ancient myth informs modern speculative fiction.
• Odin's Castle of Dreams and Legends by Paul Gwynn offers an archive of historical resources that includes links to web sites with mythology content.
• Of Gods and Men: The A to Z of Mythology and Legend offers a "mythopedia" with short articles describing mythological and legendary characters.
• On-line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for the Teaching of Classics offers an on-line comprehensive list of teaching resources (except textbooks) about the ancient civilizations of Rome and Greece. Topics include mythology, history, literature, language study, archaeology, art, philosophy, drama - over 2,500 products from over 100 distributors listed. A portion of the survey is also devoted to the ancient Near East and Middle East.
• Pagan Archives and mythology resources by Rowan Fairgrove offers annotated links to material of interest to neopagans as well as links to mythology sites.
• Places of Peace and Power. by Martin Gray documents many of the over 900 sacred sites he has visited. Gray is an anthropologist and photographer who specializes in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. This site discusses Gray's travels, features many of his photographs and writings, lists his upcoming lecture tours, and more. Photographs of the sacred sites are accompanied by information on the mythology, history, and significance of the site. Includes a detailed bibliography of over 600 references on pilgrimage, sacred sites, archaeastronomy, sacred geometry, earth mysteries, and related fields.
• Probert Encyclopaedia of Mythology by Matthew Probert offers definitions and descriptions for a variety of mythological terms and characters.
• Shrine of the Horned Gods by Lugodoc discusses the many ancient faces of the Horned God.
• Sources for the Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales by Tracey A. Callison offers a bibliography of works dealing with the analysis of fairy tales. Includes general, literary, psychological, feminist, and other approaches.
• Sources for Mythology by Mark Isaak offers an introduction to mythology and annotated references, including primary literature, dictionaries, children's works, magazines, and online resources.
• Spirit Page contains texts about Umbrood, Paradox Spirits, mythologae, and other beings, primarily as found in role-playing games like Mage.
• Teacher's Guide To Folklife Resources For K-12 Classrooms by Peter Bartis and Paddy Bowman of the American Folklife Center talks about incorporating folklife and community culture into the K-12 curriculum and offers a list of resources both online and print.
• Team Lightning Magazine Literature and Language Arts Page: Mythology and Fables presents the ongoing writing efforts of seventh graders at Chief Joseph Middle School in Richlandm Washington. Included are original fables based in part on clas
• Tech Classics Archive offers a searchable collection of almost 400 Greek and Roman texts in English translation, along with user-provided commentary.
• Traditions of Magic by curator Gideon Bohak of the special collections library at the Univesity of Michigan offers a look at magical traditions in the Mediterranean basin and the Near East from the 1st to the 7th centuries A.D.
• Tragic Kingdom by Crystal Dot offers a dictionary of mythology (in progress).
• Valkyrie's Mythical World offers links to sites with mythological or fantasy content.
• Welcome to the Bard presents myths from Celtic and Nordic traditions, offers an overview of several definition of myth, and discusses the role of The Hero in modern society.
• World Mythology by Kristen Abbey at Rutgers University provides myth-related links as well as assignments related to World Mythology courses at Rutgers.
• World Mythology at the Minneapolis Institute of Art offers a collection of 24 art images inspired by mythology around the world.

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Last modified by pib on December 26, 2001.