Google gets 137 hits for the search: "oral history repositories", and limiting to “official ones, using site:gov (4 hits) and site:edu (8 hits) may cause you to miss some very promising .com or .org ones. "oral history" repositories religion site:edu gets 19,000+, so this will indeed be a tricky search. "oral history" repositories pagan site:edu (157 hits) might be worth a quick scan, but many will just mention oral history in passing – in a page about something quite different.
I suspect it will be better to try first looking in web directories. www.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Pagan/ gets a number of possible categories of sites that potentially could give you leads to collections or repositories. For example, www.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Pagan/Wicca/Organizations may have some active groups that may be interested.
To be sure, there is no getting around the need to “sell” your work and your ideas, just as scholars always have to impress a journal editor that their research is significant enough to be published in that journal – or just as important – related to the focus of the journal. The Web itself has responded to the needs of artists and scholars whose work is outside the current mainstream, and no doubt a few of today’s blogs and independent websites will be tomorrow’s classic masterworks. One way around the difficulty of breaking into the world of scholarly journals, or mass-market publishers, is to give copies of your work to friends or family – or sympathetic or interested researchers who may not have the clout to help your work find a home, but DO think it has merits and don’t want to see it lost to future researchers. This way you can buy time while waiting to break into the scholarly (or public) arena.
