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"

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 Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
The Skull
Nowhere
She Made Herself a Monster
Aicha
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Gael Song, #1)
The Burial Tide
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)
The Crane Husband
Strange Animals
The Maiden and Her Monster
Sister Snake
The Devil Himself (Devil of Dublin, #2)
Honeysuckle
One Aladdin Two Lamps
The Creeper
We Call Them Witches
Withered Hill
All the Murmuring Bones
Thistlefoot
The Wild Huntress
The Words of Kings and Prophets (Gael Song, #2)
Mere
Knock Knock, Open Wide
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
Nightshade and Oak
Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
A Forest, Darkly
Scratch Moss
The Vessel
A Haunting in the Arctic
The Last Girl To Die
The Cold House
The Shadow Key
Old Country
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Deathly Fates
Treacle Walker
Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
Beast of the North Woods (Monster Hunter, #3)
黄泉のツガイ 2 [Yomi no Tsugai 2]
The Ghost Woods
Summer of the Monsters
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Bone Trap (Mysterious Scotland, #1)
Strange Folk
House of Monstrous Women
Hokuloa Road
Hagstone
The Swell
The Hill in the Dark Grove
Odessa
North is the Night (The Tuonela Duet #1)
Lute
Fustuk
Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)
The Witches of Vardø
A Thousand Steps into Night
Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology (World Mythology and Folklore Series)
Sistersong
Nettle (Faery Realms, #1)
Cunning Folk
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Build Your House Around My Body
Red Threads
The Morrigan
The Crimson Road
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
A Snake Falls to Earth
Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown
The Curse of Penryth Hall (Ruby Vaughn, #1)
黄泉のツガイ 5 [Yomi no Tsugai 5]
Spellbound
Once There Was (Once There Was #1)
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
The Morningside
Secret Lives of the Dead
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
Bog Myrtle
The Hidden Gods of Appalachia: A Spicy Folkloric Horror-Romance Novella
The Golem of Brooklyn
Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

W.B. Yeats
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

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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