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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,660 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 229,725 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,342 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 341,715 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 160 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 110,478 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,922 ratings — published 1888
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 139 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.49 — 87,997 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 261,672 ratings — published 2015
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 987,081 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 203,536 ratings — published 2023
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 113 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,573 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,134 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,020 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,429 ratings — published 1850
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,327 ratings — published 1975
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,326,627 ratings — published 2018
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,712 ratings — published 1956
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,049 ratings — published 1000
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,779 ratings — published 2011
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,677 ratings — published 1855
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,574 ratings — published 1400
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 130,783 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,345 ratings — published 1893
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,910 ratings — published 2009
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,280 ratings — published 1992
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,369 ratings — published 1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,541 ratings — published 1989
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,822 ratings — published 2019
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,318 ratings — published 1973
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,596 ratings — published 1911
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,723 ratings — published 2017
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,397 ratings — published 1984
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,785 ratings — published 1949
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,077 ratings — published 1904
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,600 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,285 ratings — published 2018
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,994 ratings — published 1987
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 14,351 ratings — published 2023
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,051 ratings — published 1835
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,725 ratings — published 1979
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,821 ratings — published 2014
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,679 ratings — published 1890
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,084 ratings — published 1697
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,577 ratings — published 1988
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,435 ratings — published 2016
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 72,606 ratings — published 1981
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,423 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 — 6,282 ratings — published 1975
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,637 ratings — published 1220
“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
“But after he had been singing awhile, mist and shadows seemed to gather about him, sometimes coming out of the sea, and sometimes moving upon it. It seemed to him that one of the shadows was the queen-woman he had seen in her sleep at Slieve Echtge; not in her sleep now, but mocking, and calling out to them that were behind her: 'He was weak, he was weak, he had no courage.' And he felt the strands of the rope in his hand yet, and went on twisting it, but it seemed to him as he twisted, that it had all the sorrows of the world in it. And then it seemed to him as if the rope had changed in his dream into a great water-worm that came out of the sea, and that twisted itself about him, and held him closer and closer, and grew from big to bigger till the whole of the earth and skies were wound up in it, and the stars themselves were but the shining of the ridges of its skin. And then he got free of it, and went on, shaking and unsteady, along the edge of the strand, and the grey shapes were flying here and there around him. And this is what they were saying, 'It is a pity for him that refuses the call of the daughters of the Sidhe, for he will find no comfort in the love of the women of the earth to the end of life and time, and the cold of the grave is in his heart for ever. It is death he has chosen; let him die, let him die, let him die.”
― Stories of Red Hanrahan
― Stories of Red Hanrahan
