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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,133 ratings — published 1812
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,426 ratings — published 2009
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,805 ratings — published 1956
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,374 ratings — published 1975
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,692 ratings — published 1989
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 29 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,443 ratings — published 2023
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,545 ratings — published 2009
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,377 ratings — published 2017
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,104 ratings — published 1987
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,379 ratings — published 1973
Folktales from India (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.05 — 681 ratings — published 1992
Norwegian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025 ratings — published 1868
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,712 ratings — published 1855
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 977 ratings — published 1986
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,728 ratings — published 2007
Stone Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.25 — 47,048 ratings — published 1947
Strega Nona (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,740 ratings — published 1975
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,738 ratings — published 1985
Starry River of the Sky (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,300 ratings — published 2012
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,187 ratings — published 1989
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,433 ratings — published 1984
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,727 ratings — published 2016
The Rough-Face Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,773 ratings — published 1998
Abiyoyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,766 ratings — published 1963
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,825 ratings — published 800
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 196,878 ratings — published 1989
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,091 ratings — published 1976
Tikki Tikki Tembo (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.20 — 65,206 ratings — published 1968
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,773 ratings — published -560
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,879 ratings — published 1850
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.10 — 347,447 ratings — published 2017
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,567 ratings — published 1989
African Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.76 — 307 ratings — published 1983
The Three Pigs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.16 — 20,812 ratings — published 2001
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,104 ratings — published 1977
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,979 ratings — published 1979
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,847 ratings — published 2019
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,007 ratings — published 1988
A Story, a Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,399 ratings — published 1970
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.88 — 772 ratings — published 2000
The Sleeper and the Spindle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,472 ratings — published 2013
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,213 ratings — published 1997
Japanese Fairy Tales (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,674 ratings — published 1903
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,402 ratings — published 2011
Arab Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.02 — 163 ratings — published 1986
Once a Mouse... (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,137 ratings — published 1961
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,664 ratings — published 2010
Golem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,074 ratings — published 1996
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,118 ratings — published 1888
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.17 — 157,496 ratings — published 2018
“Folk-tales and ballads conceive of Elfland with a different notion of time to our own. Its people mirror the activities of our world as if to mock or distort them, and to our eyes seem immortal. They affect our world, bringing benefit or harm, but these results are not consonant with our rules, and may resemble the arbitrary operation of luck or chance. Although men may interact with these folk, they can neither understand nor trust them.
The Border Ballads in general are ready to accommodate similtaneously a theology of expiation, reward and punishment, and an Elfland which has no moral imperatives, and interpenetrates our own in unpredictable ways, even inserting off-spring among us by means of the changeling.”
― The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction
The Border Ballads in general are ready to accommodate similtaneously a theology of expiation, reward and punishment, and an Elfland which has no moral imperatives, and interpenetrates our own in unpredictable ways, even inserting off-spring among us by means of the changeling.”
― The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction
“SELKIE
Alone, the cold body of the selkie man lay upon the sand, so like the drowned one the widow had called for.
For her longing, he was hauled upon the sand, exposed to the moonlight.
The selkie strained in fraught movements and human form broke from the gleaming seal fur.
Undeniably he bore the image of the widow’s lost husband and spoke with the sounds of the dead man’s voice.
She hailed back from the rocks.
Shadows accumulating beyond the moon’s ability to reform.
Colours were washed from sight and silver crashed through her, colder than snow dreams of being.
In the dark, the ocean became the rolling flanks of a great beast drifting back across the horizon.
Out deep soon, the land’s drop sharp.”
― Mystical Tides
Alone, the cold body of the selkie man lay upon the sand, so like the drowned one the widow had called for.
For her longing, he was hauled upon the sand, exposed to the moonlight.
The selkie strained in fraught movements and human form broke from the gleaming seal fur.
Undeniably he bore the image of the widow’s lost husband and spoke with the sounds of the dead man’s voice.
She hailed back from the rocks.
Shadows accumulating beyond the moon’s ability to reform.
Colours were washed from sight and silver crashed through her, colder than snow dreams of being.
In the dark, the ocean became the rolling flanks of a great beast drifting back across the horizon.
Out deep soon, the land’s drop sharp.”
― Mystical Tides
