Sources 12
Everything a story or a god page cites, classed by what kind of source it is and whether its wording may be quoted. Facts and plots are common property; sentences belong to their authors — so only public-domain and Creative-Commons sources are marked quotable.
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Folk documentation 12
| Title | Author / year | Rights | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhil flood folklore (en) | Curious Taxonomy (flood-myth compilation) | Unknown | Compiler's summary of published versions; treat as copyrighted, chase the original collectors. |
| Culture of the Baiga people (en) | Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | Context on Baiga earth-guardianship; same licence. |
| Gajan: an overview (en) | Judhajit Sarkar, Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | Main documentation of the peasant Shiva of Gajan; CC BY-NC-SA, attribute the author, non-commercial only. |
| Gajon and Baalaagaan: the oral tradition of Shiva culture in the 24 Parganas (en) | Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | Village-level Gajan documentation; same licence caveat. |
| Gleaning historical materials from a myth: the Asur legend (PDF) (en) | Sahapedia · 2019 | Creative Commons quotable | CC BY-NC-SA unless the PDF states otherwise; check the file's own notice. |
| IGNCA Janapada Sampada / tribal documentation (en) unverified | Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts | Unknown | No specific page was fetched in the research pass; recorded so the gap is visible. Government of India material, check each item's terms. |
| Mangal Kavyas: Bengal's performative folklores that humanised gods (en) | Centre for Contemporary Folklore · 2025 | Copyrighted | Essay on humanised gods in the mangalkavyas; facts only. |
| Myths of Middle India (en) | Verrier Elwin · 1949 | Unknown | Public domain in India from 1 January 2025 (Elwin d. 1964) but US renewal status is unknown, so treat as copyrighted for verbatim use on a global site; the Baiga, Gond and Bhil creation tellings inside are the tellers' own and may be retold freely with 'recorded by Elwin (1949)'. |
| Pandharpur Wari pilgrimage: saints, sandals and salvation (en) | Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | CC BY-NC-SA; paraphrase and cite unless the non-commercial condition is met. |
| Sahapedia (site licence) (en) | Sahapedia, various authors · 2015 | Creative Commons quotable | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 unless a page says otherwise: attribute the author with a link, mark changes, share alike, non-commercial only. Whether an ad-supported site counts as commercial was not researched; paraphrase and cite to be safe. |
| Some legends and folk stories of the Baiga people of central India (en) | Riddhi Pandey, Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | Crow-and-tortoise creation and other Baiga tales; CC BY-NC-SA, attribute the collector. |
| Yakshagana: the performance (en) | Sahapedia | Creative Commons quotable | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: attribute with link, share alike, non-commercial only; an ad-supported site should paraphrase rather than reuse. |