Questions tagged [folklore]
A traditional body of stories and customs about supernatural beings within a culture.
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Does the idea of a human being tricking demons (a bit like Constantine) come from folklore or some particular story predating Hellblazer?
A few years ago, I started reading the Hellblazer comic-book series, and while I enjoyed it a lot, I felt that the concept of a human being tricking demons (something the character Constantine is ...
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From what horror film does this clip of a man flying behind another originate?
I recently watched Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched, a documentary on the folk horror genre. It features clips of over 100 films, not all of which are flagged up to the viewer.
Toward the beginning ...
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From what horror film is this clip of a grey-skinned, clawed hand emerging from a tree root?
There are a lot of film clips used in the folk horror documentary, Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror, and as far as I can tell, not all them are identified for the viewer.
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Teenage boy transported to Medieval Ukraine
I read this in the late 1990s. A teenage boy in New York is transported (possibly by entering something like an Anderson shelter) to the middle of the woods in what turns out to be medieval Ukraine.
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Book of Irish fairy stories, including a story about a girl who rescues her father from selkies after he harms one
When I was young I often listened to books on tape during car rides. One that I have fond memories of was an audiobook with a collection of Irish folk/fairy stories. I was hoping someone would know ...
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YA Book about a Banshee
When I was in middle school ( 2012ish?), I read a book that had a young girl as the main character. The young girl had come from a line of banshees. She screams when she is by someone who will die/...
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Were elves inspired from Celtic/Irish mythology or Germanic mythology? [closed]
Celtic mythology has the Tuatha Dé Danann, druids, Arthurian legends, Camelot and Summer Isles of the Divine, things associated with wood elves.
Germanic mythology has light elves (Ljósálfar) who ...
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Movie about Koschei the Immortal
I remember watching what I think was a Soviet or some other Eastern European movie about the mythical Koschei the Immortal. It was in color and ended with the characters finding Koschei's soul inside ...
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Russian Horror/Fantasy Film with magical constructs as farm labourers
A film, I'm 95% sure was Russian. I watched it within the last two years and I got the impression it was not very old, say post-2015.
Filmed in colour.
The scene I remember was a raggedy creature that ...
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YA Fantasy Anthology featuring folklore legends in original stories - 80s-90s
I'm looking for YA fantasy anthology from the late 80s, early 90s. I'm pretty sure the cover was black. It featured stories that were based on regional/ethnic folklore. One story that stood out for me ...
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Folklore and mythology in The Witcher's bestiary [closed]
The Witcher's world has a very rich bestiarium.
For example the arts of a vampire:
Higher Vampire
Alpor
Katakan
Moola
Bruxa
Nosferat
Ekimma
Fleder
Garkain
Plumard
Or the Necrophages:
Abaya
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Why do Vampires have to be invited into your home? [closed]
Why do vampires have to be invited into your home? Is there a specific reason, or is it just some random thing someone made up?
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Japanese Wedding Chant from Ghost in the Shell
What more is known about the Japanese mythical and folk origins of the Wedding Chant in Making of Cyborg and Reincarnation, the main theme songs of Ghost in the Shell?
Making of Cyborg is the amazing ...
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Voldemort and Koschei the Deathless [duplicate]
I love the Harry Potter books and movies, and I love all kinds of Folklore and Fantasy as well.
I thought the Potter book's concept of Horcruxes sounded familiar but I couldn't pin it down. The idea ...
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French folklore: giants trying to raise a ladder into Heaven to overthrow God
In Frédéric Mistral's epic poem, Mirèio, is the following short passage (Canto VIII, "La Crau", stanzas 25-28, English translation by Harriet Waters Preston):
Then was revealed La Crau, the ...
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