Not everything is always straightforward in the folklore field. There are clerical errors, missing citations, fauxlore, and at worst, folklorists gone rogue. This section of the site collects murky folktale questions.
An examination of an imaginative British storyteller who once proclaimed herself "the last of the folklorists."
The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang make up one of the most influential English-language fairytale collections, but many of them lack sources. On this page I'm building a reference to find where those stories came from.

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Asrai
Cecaelia
Corgis as Fairy Mounts
Daisies and Red Verbena as fairy deterrents
Nicneven
Oakmen
Pillywiggins Snow White as historical figure The Soul Cages: A Fake Folktale
Wulver
Yumboes

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