#academic journals

smugplankton:

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