Folkrealm Studies
  • Folkrealm Studies
    • Eskimo Folktales: The Red Skeleton
    • Paiute Mythology: The Legend of the North Star
    • Scottish legends: The each-uisge
    • Scottish legends: The Cu Sith
    • The Last Song of Thomas the Rhymer
    • Legendary places: Dozmary Pool. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
    • Chalice Well, Glastonbury, Somerset
    • Legendary places: Wishing Wells
    • Mystery, Murder and Magic at the Rollright Stones
    • Joseph of Arimathea
    • The Glastonbury Thorn
    • Victorian mysteries: Spring-heeled Jack
    • Brutus of Troy, first King of Britain
    • Beowulf - Hero of the age
    • The Mermaid of Blake Mere Pool, Staffordshire, England
    • A legend of the white hare
    • Sunken Bells: The Legend of the Kentsham Bell
    • Dartmoor folklore: Vixiana the Witch of Vixen Tor
    • Origins of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
    • Japanese folktales: The stonecutter
    • Japanese folktales: The Bamboo cutter and the Moon-child
    • Russian folktales: The Fool and the flying ship
    • European Folktales: The Hunter and the Swan Maiden
    • To love a Swan Maiden
    • The Swan Maiden's challenge
    • German Fairy Tales: The Six Swans
    • The Evolution of Christmas
    • Introduction to Chilote mytholgy
    • Chilote mythology: The Royal Family of the Sea
    • El Caleuche: The ghost ship of Chilote folklore
    • Supernatural beings in Chilote mythology
    • Corineus, first Duke of Cornwall
    • Cornish folklore
    • Cornish legends: The tasks of Jan Tregeagle
    • Jack the Giant-killer fights Cormoran the Giant
    • Cornish legends: The Mermaid of Zennor
    • Cornish Folklore: The Witch of Treva
    • Lost Worlds
    • Lost Worlds: The drowning of the city of Ys
    • Lost worlds: The town beneath Kenfig Pool
    • Lost worlds: The drowned Russian city of Kitezh
    • Lost worlds: Cantre’r Gwaelod of Wales
    • Lost worlds: El Dorado
    • Lost worlds: The sunken realm of Tyno Helig
    • Lost worlds: Semerwater
    • Lost worlds: The town beneath Lake Bala
    • Lost Worlds: The Hidden Cherokees of Pilot Mountain
    • Welsh mythology
    • Welsh legends: The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach
    • Welsh legends: King March's ears
    • Welsh legends: The Afanc of the River Conwy
    • Welsh legends: The birth of Taliesin
    • The Legend of the Church of the White Stag
    • Welsh legends: Mereid of Cantre’r Gwaelod
    • Publications by zteve t evans
    • Tales of the Lost, the Drowned and the All-Seeing Eye: Vengeance Will Come!
    • Folkrealm Tidings
    • Policies, Terms and Conditions, Disclaimers and Notices

Introducing Folkrealm Studies

Welcome!

Folkrealm Studies is a web site dedicated to the study of mythology, legend and folklore. In these pages you will find traditional examples of the mythology, legends and folklore of the British Isles, including Brittany, Ireland and other parts of the world.

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Here you will find examples of the mythology, legends traditions and folklore that have evolved over the centuries to help humans understand the world and the human condition.   Although interpretations of meaning may be presented the reader is encouraged to form their own interpretations and their own meanings based on their own knowledge, experience, beliefs and values. In doing so please respect the ideas of other people from the past, present and future.  They all have value!

Many of the legends, myths, folklore and traditions presented here may go back hundreds, even thousands of years and tell of our ancestor's struggles with nature, with themselves, how they made sense of their world and much more besides.   They are threads that run from humankind's early history to the present day, weaving rich tapestries that give insights into how our ancestors made their way in the world  and their hopes and fears. They are the golden threads that connect all of us living in the present to those people of the distant past and will in turn connect those people in the future to us and those in the past.  Through these golden threads the past, present and future are bound, connected and woven into one and many realms - the Folkrealm.
     

                                               zteve t evans,
14 January 2015
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