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”

“ Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love with a beautiful faery woman. They had no sooner married and borne a child when she was summoned to return to her people. Husband and wife said a tearful goodbye and parted ways at Fairy Bridge, which you can still visit today. Despite the grieving chief, a celebration was held to honor the birth of the newborn boy, the next great chief of the MacLeods. In all the excitement of the celebration, th ...more ”
― Signe Pike, Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

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“ Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin. ”
― Ian Rankin, The Flood

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