{"id":12154,"date":"2021-04-05T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2021-04-05T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:21:30","slug":"joining-folklore-the-electronic-journal-of-folklore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12154","title":{"rendered":"Joining Folklore: The Electronic Journal of Folklore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu<\/p><\/div>\n

Last month I accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of Folklore: The Electronic Journal of Folklore<\/em>, which is published by the Estonian Literary Museum<\/a> in the city of Tartu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They have not yet updated the website,<\/a> but you know how that goes.<\/p>\n

Because Folklore<\/em> is government-supported and Web-only, you can read the contents online.<\/a> The articles are in English\u2014otherwise I would not be much use to them, nor would the other board members from the USA, Ireland, India . . .<\/p>\n

Here, for example, is “The Transmission of Knowledge among Estonian Witch Doctors<\/a>,” by the editor, Mare K\u00f5iva, the one who invited me.<\/p>\n

It is not all about Estonia, however; I see articles from the other Baltic nations and from Finland, Russia, Ireland, and elsewhere. And you will find occasional articles on native Paganism, shamanism, etc.<\/p>\n

My family has no Baltic corrections, although my oldest sister spent the last couple of years of her life in Kaunas, Lithuania, which is too long a story to tell here.<\/p>\n

\"\"It would be great to go there sometime, pick a few mushrooms, and read or write in a room like this one.<\/p>\n

Maybe I could drop in on the secret cyberforce<\/a>. They probably have already read this post.<\/p>\n

Our guys in Multicam are there too.<\/a> You didn’t know? They probably never get to use the folklore reading room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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