Most Read This Week In 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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Folklore"

The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
Something in the Walls
Old Country
The Fox Wife
Stay Buried
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Honeysuckle
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
The Skull
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Where the Dark Stands Still
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
Hansel and Gretel
The Last Witch of Scotland
The Wolf and the Woodsman
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Odessa
Freyja
It Looks Like You in the Dark (Kobuk Valley)
The Burial Tide
Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II: An Indigenous Horror Anthology
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
The Sea Child
Good Boy
The Winter Folk
Greenteeth
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
Thistlefoot
Ghost-Eye
Home Sick
Scratch Moss
We Call Them Witches
Withered Hill
Knock Knock, Open Wide
The Devil Knows Her Name
Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire
That Which Feeds Us
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Grimm Curiosities
The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
The Manningtree Witches
Scuttler's Cove
She Made Herself a Monster
The Creeper
The Cold House
Deathly Fates
Sister Snake
A Haunting in the Arctic
The Ghost Woods
The Unmothers
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
The Bone Trap (Mysterious Scotland, #1)
Road of Bones
All the Murmuring Bones
The Witches of Vardø
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Grace
黄泉のツガイ 5 [Yomi no Tsugai 5]
Hagstone
The Maiden and Her Monster
Suomaa
Monumental
They Fear Not Men in the Woods
Lost in the Garden
At the Edge of the Woods
Lute
The Last Girl To Die
No Man's Land
Witch's Inheritance
House of Monstrous Women
The Sarvàn
This Fatal Kiss (Spirits and Saints, #1)
Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
The Witching Hour: Haunting Tales for Long Dark Nights
Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
The Witch in the Well
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
Queen Mab
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
Mere
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Treacle Walker
The Haunting of Lavender House
Strange Animals
It’s Not a Cult
Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
Cunning Folk
Aicha
A Forest, Darkly
North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)
Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)
The Autumnal
Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)
Local Gods
Journey to Tomioka: A Graphic Novel
The Sourdough Compendium
The Naked Light

Jacob Grimm
“ Look, there is the tree where seven men have married the ropemaker's daughter, and are now learning to fly. ...more ”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Signe Pike
“ In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground, mountains spewing deathly hot lava, the glow of the moon, the burning heat of the sun, the twinkling of the stars. Our human brain searched for an answer, and the conclusion was that it all must be caused by something greater than ourselves - this, of course, sprouted the earliest seeds of religion. This theory is certainly reflected in faery lore. In the bea ...more ”
― Signe Pike, Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

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