Gateway site and search engine including more than 100 years of research material from the American Anthropological Association...

Online access to a growing database of full-text books, articles and dissertations on selected cultures of the world...

Citations (covering the years 1920 - 1997) for monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations on English language and literature, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world...

Contains over 200 entries covering broad definitions and concepts, case studies from five continents, themes and issues, objects in the sky as the focus of myth, basic concepts, and influential people...

Description of both print and electronic resources which aid the study of Anthropology at Ohio University...

Collection of essays and shorter entries on the collection of tales known as the Arabian Nights "The first section...

A collection of 400 folktales which come from all parts of the African continent...

"Stories of revered deities, sacred places, key events and epics, with many recurring themes and traditions...

Contains more than 4000 entries encompassing "the whole of Celtic mythology, legend, saga, and folklore...

Contains more than 1250 "explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore and includes articles on oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing, superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones, beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers, and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St...

Contains 1250 entries on a "wide range of folk beliefs that have survived into our own age...

Contains thousands of entries on "the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents...

Online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and related subjects...

Descriptions of 366 heroes from world folklore, along with illustrations and a timeline...

Contains more than 200 entries on the practices of folk medicine in Great Britain and North America from the 17th century to the present...

Contains entries on the authors, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world...

Contains entries on the names and results of medicine ceremonies, renowned shamans famous for their powers, techniques used by shamans to acquire and control the power of sacred ceremonies, technical terms used by anthropologists, biographies of anthropologists who research these ceremonies, cross-cultural symbolic motifs, plants and sacred paraphernalia associated with ceremonies, and recurring themes that structure these ceremonies...

"Entries examine topical essays, recent phenomena, concepts, cults, prominent individuals and personalities, organizations and publications, as well as providing entries tracing the development of occultism and parapsychology in particular countries...

Contains more than 120 articles on "religious beliefs expressed through ritualized behavior and festivals...

Contains brief entries on major characters and themes in Russian folklore and mythology from the 9th century to the early 20th century...

Contains "alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre...

This encyclopedia is primarily a collection of entries concerning supposed historical encounters with life beyond that on Earth...

Contains hundreds of entries on human encounters with otherworldly beings, personalities, and events...

Large collection of stories from mythology and folklore around the world, in variant versions, arranged thematically...

Searchable full-text journals, from their first year until about 5 years ago...

A unique film site that offers summaries, production details, and the films themselves...

Contains 670 entries which cover folk and fairy tales around the world and from ancient times to the present...

Bibliographic information (beginning in 1926) for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore...

Contains 145 entries covering major Western figures, events, and places as they have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture...

Full-text access to some important reference works on mythology, folklore and supersition from around the world, published by Oxford University Press...