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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 221,509 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 235,923 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,808 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 343,755 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 167 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 112,807 ratings — published 2017
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,966 ratings — published 1888
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 264,727 ratings — published 2015
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 140 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.48 — 89,863 ratings — published 2019
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,209 ratings — published 2001
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.96 — 213,979 ratings — published 2023
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 118 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,533 ratings — published 2018
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,646 ratings — published 2022
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,031 ratings — published 800
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,562 ratings — published 1850
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,326 ratings — published 1975
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,585 ratings — published 1000
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,917 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,358,719 ratings — published 2018
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,750 ratings — published 1956
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,685 ratings — published 1855
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,649 ratings — published 1200
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 131,496 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,372 ratings — published 1893
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,373 ratings — published 2009
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 96,637 ratings — published 1992
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 77,780 ratings — published 2019
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,709 ratings — published 1989
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,602 ratings — published 1989
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,767 ratings — published 2017
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,331 ratings — published 1973
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,607 ratings — published 1911
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 96,057 ratings — published 2022
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,503 ratings — published 2023
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,324 ratings — published 2018
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,413 ratings — published 1984
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,160 ratings — published 1904
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,043 ratings — published 1987
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,119 ratings — published 1835
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,177 ratings — published 1949
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.90 — 65,439 ratings — published 1979
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,479 ratings — published 2016
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,717 ratings — published 1890
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,172 ratings — published 1697
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,867 ratings — published 1988
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,844 ratings — published 2014
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,044 ratings — published 1981
Where the Dark Stands Still (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,963 ratings — published 2024
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,535 ratings — published -2000
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,798 ratings — published 1220
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.”
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
“Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.”
― Fairies and Elves
― Fairies and Elves
