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• - Louisiana ghost stories, traiteur tales, lore, and tales from the African tradition.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Regional folklore and legends from the Texas and Oklahoma area; topics include ghostly apparitions, mysterious creatures, and strange sightings.
  
• - Large number of Afro-American folktales.
  
• - Tales and traditions of the African-American communities on the South Carolina an Georgia Sea islands.
  
• - African American folklore collected by famous folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1935.
  
• - Multimedia website examining Louisiana's cultural diversity through its traditional storytellers.
  
• - By Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), with music and riddles; e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
  
• - True Arizona ghost stories submitted by readers.
  
• - Annotated materials, folklore texts and original literature from and about the southern Appalachian region.
  
• - Student project outlining legends from Chiloé Island in the south of Chile.
  
• - Collection compiled by Bob Corbett (in Creole and English).
  
• - Baccalieu Trail fairy stories (Newfoundland).
  
• - Curriculum by Doris M. Vazquez, offering an introduction to Puerto Rican storytelling, with sample tales, and annotated bibliography.
  
• - Article by John Baky discussing legendary motifs occurring in print and opinion about the Vietnam war.
  
• - Articles, stories and links, hosted by guide Johanne Pouliot.
  
• - Hispanic ghost stories of women betrayed by love and lovers.
  
• - Stories about the legendary giant lumberjack, Paul Bunyan.
  
• - History and ethnology research project of Joe Harris' tales of Uncle Remus; includes selected texts.
  
• - Bibliography, tale types, and abstracts of tales.
  
• - Tales from the Texas Mexican border, collected by Gabriel A. Cordova Jr.
  
• - Three sample stories of upper Mississippi river lore, from the book "Wildcat Whistle" by Phil Hoebing.
  
• - Songs, stories, placenames and jokes from Newfoundland.
  
• - Ballads and folktales, including an interactive section.
  
• - Featuring a halloween tale, the legend of The Three Wishes, and a Bororo myth, "How the Stars Came To Be."
  
• - Collection of typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.
  
• - Stories gathered from old newspaper clippings as well as stories submitted by WWW readers.
  
• - An ongoing undertaking to collect, preserve and make better known the folklore, especially the folksongs, of Americans in war.
  
• - Excerpted from the book "Mexican Folk Tales", by Anthony John Campos.
  
• - A Cuento from the Texas borderland.
  
• - Legends and folktales from Ohio towns and neighborhoods.
  
• - Listing of publications on folklore of the Civil War, presented by Frank de Caro.
  
• - Illustrated version of the American tall tale.