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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.

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Did You Know?

... that the Folklorica Institutes archive was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War?
... that Encyclopedia Folklorica began as an internal reference index restricted to Institute members for over a century before its 2026 public launch?
... that historians still disagree on whether the Folklorica Institute was founded in 1861 or 1863?
... that Edmund Ashcroft, the Institute's Senior Archivist, is not a trustee of the Institute he leads?

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