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"

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)

(Mostly) Human Resources (Entity Case Files, #1)

Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)

The Church Beneath the Roots (Stolen Tongues, #0)

Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain

North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)

Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown

Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained

Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)

Queer As Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History

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Quotes Tagged “Folklore”

“ Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of this really works. But the mind can certainly affect the body. ”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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“ 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

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