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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 353 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 242,607 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,909 ratings — published 1812
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,648 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 346,935 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 168 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 115,888 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,097 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 270,612 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 142 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 92,621 ratings — published 2019
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,974 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.95 — 230,146 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 119 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.17 — 156,928 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,593 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,715 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,836 ratings — published 1850
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,151 ratings — published 1000
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,802 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,332 ratings — published 2011
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,367 ratings — published 1975
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,417,287 ratings — published 2018
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,704 ratings — published 1855
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 95 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,653 ratings — published
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,404 ratings — published 1893
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,934 ratings — published 2013
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 100,448 ratings — published 1992
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,811 ratings — published 1200
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,293 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.87 — 79,914 ratings — published 2019
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,686 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,142 ratings — published 1989
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,840 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 100,680 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,376 ratings — published 2018
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,614 ratings — published 1911
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,374 ratings — published 1973
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,340 ratings — published 1904
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,758 ratings — published 1979
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,923 ratings — published 1949
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,431 ratings — published 1984
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,384 ratings — published 2023
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,232 ratings — published 1835
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,100 ratings — published 1987
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,394 ratings — published 1988
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,784 ratings — published 1890
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,312 ratings — published 1697
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,826 ratings — published 2024
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,403 ratings — published 1975
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,781 ratings — published 1981
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,124 ratings — published -1800
The Fox Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 31,899 ratings — published 2024
“It would be dreadfully
ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”
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ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”
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“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.”
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