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"

The House Saphir
Snake-Eater
Never Ever After (Never Ever After, #1)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
The Women of Wild Hill
Bog Queen
The Last Witch
A House Between Sea and Sky
Atlas of Unknowable Things
And the River Drags Her Down
The Cold House
The Beasts Beneath the Winds: Tales of Southeast Asia’s Mythical Creatures
Hansel and Gretel
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Something in the Walls
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Where the Dark Stands Still
Greenteeth
The Skull
A House Between Sea and Sky
The Wax Child
Grimm Curiosities
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
The Fox Wife
The Bog Wife
Silver on the Tree by Susan CooperThe Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope LivelyWild Hunt by Jane YolenThe Book of Three by Lloyd AlexanderHellboy, Vol. 9 by Mike Mignola
The Wild Hunt
119 books — 23 voters
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenThe Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. CampbellThe Mermaid by Jan BrettMermaid School by JoAnne Stewart WetzelSukey And The Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci
Picture Books about Mermaids
216 books — 23 voters

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasThe Cruel Prince by Holly BlackA Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
Here Be Fairies
64 books — 25 voters

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
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
Uprooted
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
The Complete Fairy Tales

Peter Redgrove
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Philip Pullman
Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach ...more
Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

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