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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,054 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 239,067 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,122 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 344,840 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 114,135 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,025 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 266,910 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 141 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 91,072 ratings — published 2019
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,736 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 219,852 ratings — published 2023
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 555 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 118 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 154,197 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,107 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,263 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,676 ratings — published 1850
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,578 ratings — published 1000
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,340 ratings — published 1975
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,058 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,381,220 ratings — published 2018
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,770 ratings — published 1956
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,692 ratings — published 1855
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 131,981 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,376 ratings — published 1893
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,706 ratings — published 1200
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,928 ratings — published 1992
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,694 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 78,702 ratings — published 2019
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,888 ratings — published 1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,631 ratings — published 1989
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 97,611 ratings — published 2022
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,785 ratings — published 2017
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,607 ratings — published 1911
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,350 ratings — published 1973
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,420 ratings — published 1984
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,221 ratings — published 1904
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,334 ratings — published 2018
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,166 ratings — published 1835
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,062 ratings — published 1987
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 65,934 ratings — published 1979
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,443 ratings — published 1949
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,751 ratings — published 2023
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,220 ratings — published 1697
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,052 ratings — published 1988
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,502 ratings — published 2016
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,742 ratings — published 1890
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,276 ratings — published 1981
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,083 ratings — published 2024
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,854 ratings — published 2014
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,685 ratings — published
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,349 ratings — published 1975
“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.”
― Fairies and Elves
― Fairies and Elves
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.”
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
