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 Red Winter
The Sun and the Starmaker
She Made Herself a Monster
Nightshade and Oak
Strange Animals
A Forest, Darkly
The Swan's Daughter
This House Will Feed
One Aladdin Two Lamps
The Sea Child
We Call Them Witches
The Salt Bind
Fustuk
The Hill in the Dark Grove
The Manningtree Witches
Something in the Walls
Grimm Curiosities
The Sea Child
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
A House Between Sea and Sky
Where the Dark Stands Still
Hansel and Gretel
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
Greenteeth
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
The Fox Wife
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
Audition for the Fox
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDaughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Best of Mythic Fiction
690 books — 713 voters

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
The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Best Books About Mythology
1,397 books — 2,226 voters

Marian, Princess Thief by C.K. BrookeScarlet by A.C. GaughenHawksmaid by Kathryn LaskyMaid Marian by Elsa WatsonThe Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
Maid Marian (Robin Hood) Retellings
30 books — 11 voters
History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James MooneyScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzFood for the Dead by Michael E. BellMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtGhostland by Colin Dickey
American Folklore
148 books — 16 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)
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

Philip Pullman
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 ...more
Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

W.B. Yeats
Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry in Ireland has always been mysteriously connected with magic.
W.B. Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

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