Folk Lore


The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Spinning Silver
Norse Mythology
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Skull
The Graveyard Book
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
Uprooted
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Aesop’s Fables
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
Circe
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Roger Lancelyn Green
The big knight fell heavily to the ground, and lay there, as nearly dead as possible. His servants came running from the castle and took him in. He got better in the end, but nobody cared much about that.
Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Terri Windling
There are a number of good books that draw upon fox legends -- foremost among them, Kij Johnson's exquisite novel The Fox Woman. I also recommend Neil Gaiman's The Dream Hunters (with the Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano);  Larissa Lai's unusual novel, When Fox Is a Thousand; Helen Oyeyemi's recent novel, Mr. Fox; and Ellen Steiber's gorgeous urban fantasy novel, A Rumor of Gems, as well as her heart-breaking novella "The Fox Wife" (published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears). For younger readers, ...more
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