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"

When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Something in the Walls
The Fox Wife
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
Home Sick
Honeysuckle
Where the Dark Stands Still
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
The Sea Child
Python's Kiss
Greenteeth
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
The Bog Wife
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Hansel and Gretel
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
Odessa
The Burial Tide
Old Country
Knock Knock, Open Wide
The Creeper
The Wolf Tree
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Monumental
Grimm Curiosities
The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
Withered Hill
The Skull
(Mostly) Human Resources (Entity Case Files, #1)
Strange Animals
Scuttler's Cove
Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
黄泉のツガイ 5 [Yomi no Tsugai 5]
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
She Made Herself a Monster
Deathly Fates
Once Was Willem
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
A Sweet Sting of Salt
Grace
Tillinghast
A Dark and Wild Wood
Scratch Moss
Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)
A Forest, Darkly
We Call Them Witches
Lost in the Garden
The Bone Trap (Mysterious Scotland, #1)
A Haunting in the Arctic
Treacle Walker
Aicha
黄泉のツガイ 7 [Yomi no Tsugai 7]
The Church Beneath the Roots (Stolen Tongues, #0)
The Witches of Vardø
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
All the Murmuring Bones
Mere
Hagstone
Thistlefoot
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
At the Edge of the Woods
The Manningtree Witches
Misery's Wife
Good Boy
Audition for the Fox
North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown
Sister Snake
Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)
The Last Girl To Die
Road of Bones
Rumpelstiltskin
The Cold House
The Shadow Key
Lute
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology (World Mythology and Folklore Series)
The Maiden and Her Monster
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained
The Devil Himself (Devil of Dublin, #2)
The Ghost Woods
Tales From the Hinterland (The Hazel Wood, #2.5)
Fustuk
The Morrigan
Queer As Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
The Morningside
Suomaa
A Snake Falls to Earth
Build Your House Around My Body
Retour à Tomioka
The Princess and the Grain of Rice
The Winter Folk
Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History
The Salt Bind
Spellbound
The Golem of Brooklyn
Hokuloa Road

Signe Pike
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

Ian Rankin
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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