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.

New Releases Tagged "Folklore"

The Sea Child
The Salt Bind
Fustuk
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Under Gorse and Stone
Something in the Walls
Hansel and Gretel
Where the Dark Stands Still
Grimm Curiosities
The Fox Wife
Greenteeth
A House Between Sea and Sky
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
The Skull
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
The Sea Child
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Aesop’s Fables
Norse Mythology
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Uprooted
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
The Complete Fairy Tales
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Baba Yaga
100 books — 47 voters
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Maid Marian (Robin Hood) Retellings
30 books — 11 voters


W.B. Yeats
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 ...more
W.B. Yeats, Stories of Red Hanrahan

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

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