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Encyclopedia Folklorica is the ongoing publication of the Folklorica Institute, an independent archival institution documenting the people, institutions, events, places, and phenomena that lie at the margins of ordinary attention. The entries collected here are drawn from the Institute's archive and are added as they are catalogued and reviewed.

The archive currently comprises 14 published entries.

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Edmund Ashcroft serves as Senior Archivist of the Folklorica Institute and editorial director of Encyclopedia Folklorica. (Full article...)

Did You Know?

... that the Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena maintains its own publishing imprint, Fenwick House Press, named for founding President Sir Reginald Fenwick?
... that the Great Comma Incident began with a single misplaced comma in a bank notice printed by The London Sentinel?
... that Typographic Drift remains a disputed phenomenon among print historians?
... that Fleet Street housed both the printing trade and, later, the institutions that catalogued its stranger episodes?

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