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Journals, articles, books & texts, on folklore, mythology, occult, and related -to- general anthropology, history, archaeology. 

Some good and/or interesting (or hokey) ‘examples’ included for most resources.
tryin to organize & share stuff that was floating around onenote.

Journals (open access)
— Folklore, Occult, etc

• Culutural Analysis – folklore, popular culture, anthropology
  — The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture
  
• Folklore – folklore, anthropology, archaeology
  — The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative, Grecian Riddle Jokes
  
• Incantatio – journal on charms, charmers, and charming
  — Verbal Charms from a 17th Century Manuscript
• Oral Tradition
  — Jewish Folk Literature, Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry
• Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
  — Nani Fairtyales about the Cruel Bride, Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms
• International Journal of Intangible Heritage 
• Studia Mythologica Slavica (many articles not English)
  — Dragon and Hero, Fertility Rites in the Raining Cave, The Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography
• Folklorica – Slavic & Eastern European folklore association
  — Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine, Animal Magic
• Esoterica – The Journal of Esoteric Studies
  — The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid Cathedral 
• The Esoteric Quarterly
• Mythological Studies Journal
• Luvah – Journal of the Creative Imagination
  — A More Poetical Character Than Satan
• Transpersonal Studies
  — Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology, Dreamscapes
• Beyond Borderlands 
  — tumblr
• Paranthropology
• GOLEM – Journal of Religion and Monsters
  — The Religious Functions of Pokemon, Anti-Semitism and Vampires in British Popular Culture 1875-1914
• Correspondences – Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism
  — Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom 

— History, Archaeology

• Adoranten – pre-historic rock art
• Chitrolekha – India art & design history
  — Gomira Dance Mask
• Silk Road
  — Centaurs on the Silk Road: Hellenistic Textiles in Western China
• Sino-Platonic – East Asian languages and civilizations
  — Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions
• MELA Notes – Middle East Librarians Association
• Didaskalia – Journal for Ancient Performance
• Ancient Narrative – Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions
  — The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel
• Akroterion – Greek, Roman
  — The Deer Hunter: A Portrait of Aeneas
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 
  — Erotic and Separation Spells, The Ancients’ One-Horned Ass
• Roman Legal Tradition – medieval civil law
  — Between Slavery and Freedom 
• Phronimon – South African society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
  — Special Issue vol. 13 #2, Greek philosophy in dialogue with African+ philosophy
• The Heroic Age – Early medieval Northwestern Europe
  — Icelandic Sword in the Stone
• Peregrinations – Medieval Art and Architecture
  — Special Issue vol. 4 #1, Mappings 
• Tiresas – Medieval and Classical
  — Sexuality in the Natural and Demonic Magic of the Middle Ages
• Essays in Medieval Studies 
  — The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances, The Sweet Song of Satan
• Hortulus – Medieval studies
  — Courtliness & the Deployment of Sodomy in 12th-Century Histories of Britain, Monsters & Monstrosities issue, Magic & Witchcraft issue
• Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU
• Medieval Archaeology
  — Divided and Galleried Hall-Houses, The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall
• Medieval Feminist Forum 
  — multiculturalism issue; Gender, Skin Color and the Power of Place … Romance of Moriaen, Writing Novels About Medieval Women for Modern Readers, Amazons & Guerilleres
• Quidditas – medieval and renaissance 
• Medieval Warfare
• The Viking Society – ridiculous amount of articles from 1895-2011

Journals (limited free/sub/institution access)

• Al-Masaq – Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean
  — Piracy as Statecraft: The Policies of Taifa of Denia, free issue
• Mythical Creatures of Europe – article + map
• Folklore – limited free access
  — Volume 122 #3, On the Ambiguity of Elves
• Digital Philology –  a journal of medieval cultures
  — Saracens & Race in Roman de la Rose Iconography
• Pomegranate – International Journal for Pagan Studies
• Transcultural Psychiatry
• European Journal of English Studies 
  — Myths East of Venice issue, Esotericism issue

Books, Texts, Images etc.
— Folklore, Occult etc.

• Magical Gem Database – Greek/Egyptian gems & talismans [x] [x]
• Biblioteca Aracana – (mostly) Greek pagan history, rituals, poetry etc.
  — Greater Tool Consecration, The Yew-Demon
• Curse Tablets from Roman Britain – [x]
• The Gnostic Society Library
  — The Corpus Hermeticum, Hymn of the Robe of Glory
• Grimoar – vast occult text library
  — Grimoires, Greek & Roman Necromancy, Queer Theology, Ancient Christian Magic
• Internet Sacred Text Archive – religion, occult, folklore, etc. ancient texts
• Verse and Transmutation – A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry

— History

• The Internet Classics Archive – mainly Greco-Roman, some Persian & Chinese translated texts
• Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collection – [x] [x] [x]
• Virtual Magic Bowl Archive – Jewish-Aramaic incantation bowl text and images [x] [x] 
• Vindolanda Tablets – images and translations of tablets from 1st & 2nd c. [x]
• Corsair – online catalog of the Piedmont Morgan library (manuscripts) [x] [x]
• Beinecke rare book & manuscripts 
  — Wagstaff miscellany, al-Qur’ān—1813
• LUNA – tonnes from Byzantine manuscripts to Arabic cartography
• Maps on the web – Oxford Library [x] [x] [x]
• Bodleian Library manuscripts – photographs of 11th-17th c. manuscripts
  — Treatises on Heraldry, The Worcester Fragments (polyphonic music), 12 c. misc medical and herbal texts
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford U – very high quality photographs
  — (view through bottom left) Military texts by Athenaeus Mechanicus 16th c. [x] [x], MS Douce 195 Roman de la Rose [x] [x]
• Trinity College digital manuscript library 
  — Mathematica Medica, 15th c.
• eTOME – primary sources about Celtic peoples

Websites, Blogs
— Folklore, Occult etc.

• Demonthings – Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project
• Invocatio – (mostly) western esotericism
• Heterodoxology – history, esotericism, science
  — Religion in the Age of Cyborgs
• The Recipes Project – food, magic, science, medicine
  — The Medieval Invisible Man (invisibility recipes)
• Morbid Anatomy – museum/library in Brooklyn

— History 

• Islamic Philosophy Online – tonnes of texts, articles, links, utilities, this belongs in every section; mostly English
• Medicina Antiqua – Graeco-Roman medicine
• History of the Ancient World – news and resources
  — The So-called Galatae, Gauls, Celts in Early Hellenistic Balkans; Maidens, Matrons Magicians: Women & Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt
• Διοτίμα – Women & Gender in Antiquity
• Bodleian Library Exhibitions Online
  — Khusraw & Shirin, Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Cultures
• Medievalists
  — folk studies, witchcraft, mythology, science tags
• Atlas Obscura
  — Bats and Vampiric Lore of Pére Lachaise Cemetery 

legit-writing-tips:

All right guys, I’ve decided to put together another masterpost for you – this time on historical fashion. This could get lengthy so… bear with me. (Forgive me also if some of the dates are a touch inaccurate – I’m not a historian and I’m going with what Google gives me.)

Prehistory –

Neolithic Clothing – The beginnings of textiles, some woven materials, leather, etc. Circa 102000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Bronze Age Britain – The development of more sophisticated textiles, including wool and some ornamentation, including brooches. Circa 3200 BCE – 600 BCE

Iron Age Clothing (Europe) – Even more sophisticated, ornamented clothing, textiles, hairstyles. Dyed clothing arises. Circa 1200 BCE – 1 BCE (in Europe)

Fashion of the Ancient World

Clothing of Mesopotamia – i.e, Babylon. Also Mesopotamian jewelry. Circa 3000 BCE – 300 BCE

Clothing of Ancient Egypt – All eras.

Clothing of Ancient India – An overview.

Ancient Greek Clothing + Wikipedia for Definitions

Ancient Roman Clothing + More Rome

Ancient Celtic Clothing

Vikings!

Biblical Clothing – i.e., Primarily Ancient Hebrew

Byzantine Clothing

*Note: I’m not including many cultures here (such as Asian/South American) simply because of my own lack of expertise + time and space limitations in this masterpost.

Medieval Clothing

Wikipedia Overview

Anglo-Saxon Clothing – (Pre-Norman Invasion)

England 1066-1087 – Ish

1100 – 1200 in European Fashion – Wikipedia

1200 – 1300 in European Fashion – Wikipedia

*A Note on Women’s Fashion – Tight lacing did NOT appear until about 1340, which means that shapely, comely bodices would not have appeared in fashion before this time.

14th Century Women’s Fashion – The stereotypical “medieval” look with wimple, long sleeves, etc.

Sexy Sexy Knights

Suits of Armor & Their Component Parts

Suit of Armor – Labeled Photo for Reference

15th Century Clothing

The Renaissance

History of the Corset – Italian in origin. Introduced to France in the 1500s.

15th Century Florence

*Note: For the Tudor and Elizabethan eras of fashion it’s important to note that there were laws in place which dictated what clothing you could wear due to your social class.

Tudor Era Clothing – King Henry VIII, et al

Tudor Dress & Its Component Parts

Elizabethan Clothing

Tudor/Elizabethan Corsets – Corsets during this time created a shape with a flat chest and narrow waist.

Jacobean Era Dress – 1603 – 1625

And Beyond

Baroque/Rococo Fashion – France 1650 – 1800

What to Wear in the English Civil War

The “Naughty” Side of 18th Century French Fashion – NSFW. Ooh la la.

Pilgrims in Murica

American Revolutionary War Costumes

Colonial Clothing – 18th Century Murica

Colonial Men – Colonial Women

Overview of Native American Clothing – *Note: Please use this as a starting point only and do your own research. Remember that different groups have fashions specific to their cultures. This is more to know what NOT to do than to know what TO do.

Fashion Under the French Revolution

Regency Fashion – 1800-1845 England

Regency Corsets/Underthings

History of Victorian Fashion

Victorian Men’s Clothing

History of the Victorian Corset

Victorian Women’s Clothing By Layer – All 5 yo.

American Fashion – 1830s

Women’s Fashion During the Civil War

Twentieth Century

La Belle Époque 1895-1914

Edwardian Fashion – 1900-1919

Men’s Edwardian Fashion

Flapper Fashion

More 1920s – 1920s Hairstyles – 1920s Makeup

1930s Fashion – 1930s Hats and Hair – 1930s Makeup

1940s Fashion – 1940s Hairstyles – 1940s Makeup

1950s Fashion – 1950s Hairstyles – 1950s Makeup

Early 1960s – Mid/Late 1960s – 1960s Makeup History

1970s in General – 1970s Makeup – 1970s Hair

Punk Fashion

And I’m stopping here. You should have it after this point, kiddos.

You better appreciate this.