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	American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html Collection of typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.
	American Folklore - http://www.americanfolklore.net/ 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.
	Bawdy Ballads and Far-Fetched Folklore - An Oral History of Rural North Carolina - http://www.ibiblio.org/bawdy/ Ballads and folktales, including an interactive section.
	Uncle Remus - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/remus.html History and ethnology research project of Joe Harris' tales of Uncle Remus; includes selected texts.
	Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project - http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/ An ongoing undertaking to collect, preserve and make better known the folklore, especially the folksongs, of Americans in war.

	Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana - http://www.lpb.org/programs/swappingstories/ Multimedia website examining Louisiana's cultural diversity through its traditional storytellers.
	Mules and Men - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index.html African American folklore collected by famous folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1935.
	Jamaica Anansi Stories - http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/ By Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), with music and riddles; e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
	Haitian Proverbs, Riddles, Jokes and Folktales - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/008.html Collection compiled by Bob Corbett (in Creole and English).
	Puerto Rican Folktales - http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html Curriculum by Doris M. Vazquez, offering an introduction to Puerto Rican storytelling, with sample tales, and annotated bibliography.

	Gullah Tales - http://www.knowitall.org/gullahtales/ Tales and traditions of the African-American communities on the South Carolina and Georgia Sea islands.
	The Boy & The Devil - http://www.rain.org/~galvan/boydevil.html A Cuento from the Texas borderland.
	Folklore, Legends, Tall Tales - An Interactive Case Book for Ford Knox County, Indiana - http://rking.vinu.edu/folklore.htm Stories gathered from old newspaper clippings as well as stories submitted by WWW readers.
	Paul Bunyan - The Giant Lumberjack - http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/talltale.html Illustrated version of the American tall tale.
	Index of Appalachian Folktales Listed by Tale Title - http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/tales/ Bibliography, tale types, and abstracts of tales.

	Magic Tales of Mexico - http://www.g-world.org/magictales/magictales.shtml Tales from the Texas Mexican border, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova Jr.
	White Cong and Black Clap: The Ambient Truth of Vietnam War Legendry - http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html Article by John Baky discussing legendary motifs occurring in print and opinion about the Vietnam war.
	Thinkquest: Chiloé, A Land of Myths and Legend - http://library.thinkquest.org/C005968F/ Student project outlining legends from Chiloé Island in the south of Chile.
	Louisiana Langiappe - http://www.nicholls.edu/engl-wsr/louisiana/ Louisiana ghost stories, traiteur tales, lore, and tales from the African tradition.
	Las Lloronas - The Crying Women - http://www.angelfire.com/ok/sayona/ Hispanic ghost stories of women betrayed by love and lovers.

	The Texas & Oklahoma Campfire Tales - http://members.tripod.com/oklatexcampfire/ Regional folklore and legends from the Texas and Oklahoma area; topics include ghostly apparitions, mysterious creatures, and strange sightings.
	AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults - http://www.ferrum.edu/AppLit Annotated materials, folklore texts and original literature from and about the southern Appalachian region.
	Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore - http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/folklore.html Songs, stories, placenames and jokes from Newfoundland.

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