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"

Something in the Walls
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
Stay Buried
The Fox Wife
Where the Dark Stands Still
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Honeysuckle
The Last Witch of Scotland
The Bog Wife
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Greenteeth
Old Country
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Sarafina
The Burial Tide
Odessa
The Winter Folk
Hansel and Gretel
The Hill in the Dark Grove
The Sea Child
Withered Hill
Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II: An Indigenous Horror Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #2)
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
The Skull
The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
Monumental
Scratch Moss
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire (Verity Vox, #1)
She Made Herself a Monster
Python's Kiss
Scuttler's Cove
Knock Knock, Open Wide
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
That Which Feeds Us
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness
The Creeper
The Manningtree Witches
Home Sick
Grimm Curiosities
Invasive Species
Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
Deathly Fates
Thistlefoot
We Call Them Witches
A Haunting in the Arctic
The Last Girl To Die
Queen Mab
Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)
Once Was Willem
Cunning Folk
Treacle Walker
This Fatal Kiss (Spirits and Saints, #1)
Strange Animals
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Witch's Inheritance
Hagstone
At the Edge of the Woods
All the Murmuring Bones
A Forest, Darkly
Grace
Helm
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
Lost in the Garden
Audition for the Fox
The Maiden and Her Monster
Suomaa
Road of Bones
Uri Tupka and the Gods: Another Story from Lands Unknown
Aicha
Mere
The Church Beneath the Roots
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained
The Morningside
The Witches of Vardø
The Bone Trap (Mysterious Scotland, #1)
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
Retour à Tomioka
A Palace Near the Wind (Natural Engines, #1)
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Sister Snake
The Ghost Woods
Lute
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
Local Gods
Rumpelstiltskin
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
The Crimson Road
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
No Man's Land
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
Good Boy
It’s Not a Cult
The Naked Light
黄泉のツガイ 7 [Yomi no Tsugai 7]
They Fear Not Men in the Woods
Spellbound

Julie Kagawa
It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.
Julie Kagawa

Kyota Ko
But then he did suffer a miserable death soon after, so maybe gods are just couch potatoes who need a little time to get up and do their job!
Kyota Ko, Horror Tales of Japan: 21 Japanese folktales not to be read to children, coupled with (mostly) uplifting cultural commentary

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