Most Read This Week In 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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Folklore"

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)

The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)

The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)

Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown

The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn, #1)

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

The Hidden Gods of Appalachia: A Spicy Folkloric Horror-Romance Novella

Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Quotes Tagged “Folklore”

“ 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

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“ Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away the blood-stains in a well later known as Ffynnon Gollen. In Ireland, the tales of saints slaying giant serpents may have the same meaning; alternatively they (or some of them) may refer to early sightings of genuine water monsters. St Barry banished a ...more ”
― Colin Bord, Sacred Waters

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