"Folklore" Blogs & Blog Posts

Fox Sports talking head Colin Cowherd said his Westerly, R.I. house was broken into on Feb. 23, and he theorizes that the alleged perpetrator might have had the wrong address. Read more...

People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. Here's how people throughout history dealt with the beings famous in folklore.

People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. Here's how people throughout history dealt with the beings famous in folklore.

Taylor Swift likes an Easter Egg. We—you, me, the 75-year-old man who owns my bodega—understand this to be basic fact. But it would appear her former lover fancies one too.Read more...

Modern parents are ill-prepared to deal with threats to their families from the fairy kingdom. Kobolds, elves, goblins, pixies, and other fey creatures have a long history of stealing human infants and replacing them with uafs (or oafs), creatures th...

Kanamara Matsuri, commonly referred to as the "Iron Penis Festival," is an annual event held in Kawasaki, Japan, typically on the first Sunday of April. The legend behind Kanamara Matsuri tells the tale of a young woman who fell victim to a jealous d...

Among some Maya peoples, there is folklore about the alux, a miniature mystical sprite who lives in forests, caves, and fields. Now, Mexican President President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has posted a photo to his social media accounts that any re...