Return to. Retellings of American folktales, tall tales, myths and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories, and more from each of the 50 United States of America. Great for school children and teachers. www. americanfolklore. net/ www. americanfolklore. net/. Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it. I'll Be Your Best Friend Burrell Smith was creative in more than just engineering Date: August 1979 Author: Andy Hertzfeld Topics: Origins, Personality, Hardware Design,Apple II Comments: 10 Rating: (4. 32) www. folklore. org/ www. folklore. org/. var wikiImage = new Image(); wikiImage. onload = function() &ob;if(this. height Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Folklore. Folklore comes in many different forms. One way to look at it is by category. There are three basic categories of folklore: Another way is to just jump right in and look at some examples of folklore, so click on this button to do so!! virtual. park. uga. edu/~clandrum/folklore. html virtual. park. uga. edu/~clandrum/folklore. html. Cochiti Pueblo potter Helen Cordero of New Mexico. Cordero has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mask by Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson of Alaska. Jackson has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. www. afsnet. org/. What is folklore? An explanation by the British Columbia Folklore Society, with examples. Richard M. Dorson was the pre-eminent professor of folklore until his recent death. In a 1960 critique of Dorson's book American Folklore a Harvard professor of American Civilisation wrote that folklore was, "The most sentimental, www. folklore. bc. ca/Whatsfolk. htm www. folklore. bc. ca/Whatsfolk. htm. Vast collection of folktales, myths, legends, and texts pertaining to folklore, arranged by title and theme, with a focus on northern and western Europe. Aging and Death in Folklore. An essay by D. L. Ashliman, with supporting texts from proverbs, folktales, and myths from around the world. www. pitt. edu/~dash/folktexts. html. Electronic Journal of Folklore Folk Belief and Media Group of ELM, Andres Kuperjanov, Estonian Folklore Institute Institute of Estonian Language USN (Volume 1 - Volume 12, 1996 - 1999) haldjas. folklore. ee/folklore/ haldjas. folklore. ee/folklore/. There are lots of definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts. Here are some definitions and explanations collected by the New York Folklore Society. This is probably the question most frequently asked of people who study and work with folklore. Here's how it often goes: www. nyfolklore. org/resource/what. html www. nyfolklore. org/resource/what. html.