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.

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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)

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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Reading Women Challenge 2020 #9 A Book Inspired by Folklore

27 books — 24 voters

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Best Books About Mythology

1,395 books — 2,219 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola

The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola

The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola

Flower and Plant lore

98 books — 13 voters

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Baba Yaga

100 books — 47 voters

The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively

The Wild Hunt

119 books — 24 voters

History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

American Folklore

148 books — 16 voters

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“ 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

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“ Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn’t trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he’d been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill. I argued that certain stories are also cap Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn’t trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he’d been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill. I argued that certain stories are also capable of changing lives, addressing some of the same problems and issues he confronted in his daily work: problems of poverty, violence, and alienation, issues of culture, race, gender, and class... “Stories aren’t real,” he told me shortly. “They don’t feed a kid left home in an empty house. Or keep an abusive relative at bay. Or prevent an unloved child from finding ‘family’ in the nearest gang.” Sometimes they do, I tried to argue. The right stories, read at the right time, can be as important as shelter or food. They can help us to escape calamity, and heal us in its aftermath. He frowned, dismissing this foolishness, but his wife was more conciliatory. “Write down the names of some books,” she said. “Maybe we’ll read them.” I wrote some titles on a scrap of paper, and the top three were by Charles de lint – for these are precisely the kind of tales that Charles tells better than anyone. The vital, necessary stories. The ones that can change and heal young lives. Stories that use the power of myth to speak truth to the human heart. Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. Recently I saw that parole officer again, and I asked after his work. “Gets harder every year,” he said. “Or maybe I’m just getting old.” He stopped me as I turned to go. “That writer? That Charles de Lint? My wife got me to read them books…. Sometimes I pass them to the kids.” “Do they like them?” I asked him curiously. “If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them: Stories are important.” And then he looked at me and smiled. ...more ”
― Terri Windling

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