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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,519 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 348 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 240,994 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,420 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 345,928 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 115,088 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,059 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 268,804 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 141 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 91,929 ratings — published 2019
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,406 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 225,306 ratings — published 2023
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 118 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 155,485 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,379 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,493 ratings — published 800
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 351,454 ratings — published 1000
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,766 ratings — published 1850
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,353 ratings — published 1975
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,788 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,175 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,399,991 ratings — published 2018
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,697 ratings — published 1855
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 95 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,619 ratings — published
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,444 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,387 ratings — published 1893
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,748 ratings — published 1200
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 99,235 ratings — published 1992
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,993 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 79,410 ratings — published 2019
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,665 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,016 ratings — published 1989
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,815 ratings — published 2017
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,358 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 99,138 ratings — published 2022
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,611 ratings — published 1911
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,427 ratings — published 1984
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,362 ratings — published 1973
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,370 ratings — published 1979
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,206 ratings — published 1835
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,278 ratings — published 1904
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,709 ratings — published 1949
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,118 ratings — published 2023
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,088 ratings — published 1987
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,209 ratings — published 1988
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,762 ratings — published 1890
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,261 ratings — published 1697
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,519 ratings — published 1981
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,524 ratings — published 2016
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,379 ratings — published 1975
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,055 ratings — published 2024
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,879 ratings — published 2014
“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.”
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
― Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
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