Have you ever wondered how to predict the next year's weather with just an onion? Or what the medicinal powers of rømmegrot are? Or heard about the monster fish of the Garrison Dam? All are part of ...

Sarah is CNET's senior copy editor in London. She's often found reading, playing piano or arguing about commas. An archeologist unearths a remote Scottish town's ancient secrets. A woman in Ireland ...

August 22 is World Folklore Day, based on a letter from August 22, 1846 where the word “folklore” was used for the first time to describe oral stories that are passed down through generations. These ...

Silverman started studying Balkan cultures after developing a folk dancing hobby during her undergraduate stint at the City College of New York. @@checked link@@ She continued her educational path and ...

Author Kirsty Logan tells us why we should read aloud to adults and why we're all misusing the phrase "fairy tale." Sarah is CNET's senior copy editor in London. She's often found reading, playing ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the ethnographer Afanasyev published around 600 Russian folktales—the world’s largest academic collection of such texts. In Russia, these tales have long been considered ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

Things that lurk in the night may be more than just a chill down the spine. One Provo folklorist collects eerie tales and turns them into a form of living history.

If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left you with chills. In honor of spooky season coming, it’s only right for us to ...

The Balkans is one of the world’s richest regions for terrifying traditional tales, which has made it a fertile source of stories and characters for Turkish horror novelist Mehmet Berk Yaltirik.

Music compositions from Cyprus, its legends, Norwegian folk tales and beyond are coming soon as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra continues its winter programme. A new series of concerts has been ...

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh-based columnist for the Washington Examiner. She is the author of "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics." DONEGAL, Pennsylvania—It is ...