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"

Country People
Fishbone Cinderella
The Winter Folk
Home Sick
Misery's Wife
The Unicorn Hunters
Tillinghast
Lore Olympus: Volume Ten (Lore Olympus, #10)
The Loom Tree
The Way It Haunted Him
The Sourdough Compendium
Something in the Walls
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
The Fox Wife
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
The Bog Wife
Honeysuckle
Where the Dark Stands Still
The Sea Child
To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)
Greenteeth
The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
Hansel and Gretel
Python's Kiss
Home Sick
Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Phyllis FraserThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith WhartonBloody Ghost Stories by Brianna Stoddard
Ghost Story Collections
167 books — 48 voters

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenThe Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. CampbellThe Mermaid by Jan BrettMermaid School by JoAnne Stewart WetzelSukey And The Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci
Picture Books about Mermaids
220 books — 24 voters
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmLittle Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart HymanSaint George and the Dragon by Margaret HodgesThe Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul GaldoneThe Jack Tales by Richard Thomas Chase
Best Classic Folk Tales
196 books — 25 voters

The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine HoweThe Penguin Book of the Undead by Scott G. BruceThe Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina BacchilegaThe Penguin Book of Ghost Stories by Michael     NewtonThe Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Matthew George Walter
The Penguin Book of…
153 books — 22 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Awakening by Kate ChopinZeitoun by Dave Eggers
Best New Orleans Books
428 books — 350 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)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
Spinning Silver
Thistlefoot
The Arabian Nights
The Complete Fairy Tales

Lewis Spence
It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy centuries, and that in the passage of generations such an alteration may be brought about in appearance and traits as to make it seem impossible that any relationship actually exists between the old form and the new. This may be accounted for by the circumstance that in gradually assuming the traits of fairyhood the god or goddess may also have taken on the characteristics of fairie ...more
Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins

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

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