Folklore

Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.

New Releases Tagged "Folklore"

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Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Aesop’s Fables
Norse Mythology
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Uprooted
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
The Complete Fairy Tales

W.B. Yeats
An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.
W.B. Yeats, When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales

W.B. Yeats
The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a ...more
William Butler Yeats

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