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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 219,679 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 330 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,142 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 128,853 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 339,498 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 157 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 108,976 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 137 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.49 — 86,807 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 258,362 ratings — published 2015
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,855 ratings — published 1888
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 981,981 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 112 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,198 ratings — published 2018
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 189,563 ratings — published 2023
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,469 ratings — published 2022
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,277 ratings — published 1850
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 80,614 ratings — published 800
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,314 ratings — published 1975
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,295,691 ratings — published 2018
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 339,748 ratings — published 1000
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,676 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,593 ratings — published 2011
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,661 ratings — published 1855
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 129,954 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,309 ratings — published 1893
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,388 ratings — published 2009
The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 85 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,468 ratings — published 1400
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,484 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,021 ratings — published 1989
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 75,385 ratings — published 2019
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,297 ratings — published 1973
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 91,846 ratings — published 1992
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,585 ratings — published 1911
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,383 ratings — published 1984
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,621 ratings — published 2017
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,378 ratings — published 1949
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,943 ratings — published 1987
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,937 ratings — published 1904
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,191 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,583 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,232 ratings — published 2018
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,973 ratings — published 1835
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,641 ratings — published 1890
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,272 ratings — published 1988
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,644 ratings — published 1979
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,088 ratings — published 1697
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,765 ratings — published 2014
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,613 ratings — published 1981
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,375 ratings — published 2009
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,218 ratings — published 1975
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,402 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,893,846 ratings — published 2011
“The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of castor - an extract from the beaver's perineal glands. Little packets containing the brown-orange mass of dried animal matter arrived from Detroit at the Post Office's "general delivery." At home, by the kerosene light, the recipients unwrapped the packets. A poor relative sometimes would be given some of the fibrous gland, bitter and smelling slightly like strong human sweat, and the rest would go into a Mason jar. Each night, as prescribed by old Burrifous through his oracle, Ronnie, a litt1e would be mixed with clear spring water. And as it gave the water a creamy, rusty look, the owner would sigh with awe and fear. The creature, wolf or man, became more real through the very specific which was to vanquish him.”
― Moon of the Wolf
― Moon of the Wolf
“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
