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"

A Land So Wide
The Maiden and Her Monster
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Audition for the Fox
They Fear Not Men in the Woods
Hansel and Gretel
Hemlock & Silver
The Witch's Orchard
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Selkie
Hansel and Gretel
The Skull
Something in the Walls
Greenteeth
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Where the Dark Stands Still
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
The Fox Wife
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
The Wolf and the Woodsman
The Bog Wife
Maggie's Grave
The Maiden and Her Monster
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainForty-Ninth by Boris PronskyThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Americana Fiction
62 books — 52 voters
Spinning Silver by Naomi NovikThe Golem and the Jinni by Helene WeckerThe Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena RossnerThe Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava ReidThe Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Jewish Inspired SFF
192 books — 58 voters

The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaThe Way of Zen by Alan W. WattsSymposium by PlatoThe Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
Joseph Campbell Reading List
48 books — 32 voters
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasThe Cruel Prince by Holly BlackA Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
Here Be Fairies
63 books — 24 voters

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)
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
Uprooted
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
American Gods
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

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 stro ...more
Leslie H. Whitten Jr., Moon of the Wolf

W.B. Yeats
An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.
W.B. Yeats, When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales

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