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

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

The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)

The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn, #1)

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

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

Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown

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

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

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

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism

Lies on the Serpent's Tongue (Bittersweet in the Hollow, #2)

The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Door on the Sea (The Raven and Eagle, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Folklore”

“ What are you reading?” she asked as he poured himself scotch and her a vodka. She looked over to the deserted volume. “Stories and Legends of Pagan Russia,” she read aloud. “Are you catching up on Yvan’s biography? ”
― Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird

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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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