A '''grindylow''' is a water spirit that originated from folktales in the English county of Yorkshire.
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Azeban does many foolish and/or mischievous things in Abenaki folktales, but unlike animal tricksters in some other tribes, is not dangerous or mal
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Trows traditionally have a fondness for music, and folktales tell of their habit of kidnapping musicians or luring them to their trowie
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*''Folktales of Norway'', ed. Reidar Th. Christiansen, 1964.
*''Norske Folkeeventyr'' (Norwegian Folktales), by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen & Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, 1843, 1844, 1871
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...tsukumogami. Folk narratives about tsukumogami are rare but exist in some folktales (e.g. Bakemono-dera).
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...mplete accounts of the trooping faeries hidden within their many songs and folktales
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'''Hobgoblin''' is a term typically applied in folktales to a friendly or amusing [[goblin]].
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...llished. A spider-limbed monster of the same name appears in some Japanese folktales, which possibly were mythical retellings of battles against these peoples.
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*Baughman, Ernest Warren - ''Type and Motif-index of the Folktales of England and North America'', Mouton 1966, page 533.
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...sets of Oriental tales. For the medieval legends which relate to Jews see folktales.
==Folktales and myths as stories==
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'''Folklore''' is the body of verbal expressive culture, including [[folktales|tales]], [[legend]]s, [[oral history]], proverbs, jokes, [[superstition|pop
...gic]], ethereal beings or the personification of inanimate objects). These folktales may or may not emerge from a religious tradition, but nevertheless speak to
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...the Mononoke (anime), a sequel to the Ayakashi (2006 anime) which combined folktales, Kabuki plays and animated verisons of 19th century woodblock art prints to
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...the folk tradition recorded by Jón Árnason, in his collection of Icelandic folktales and legends published in 1862 and 1864, the great serpent in Lagarfljót gr
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...the placenta (which is devoured by the Penanggal after it is buried). All folktales also agree that a Penanggal flies as it searches and lands to feed.
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...Kaidankai became popular. This game lead to a demand for ghost stories and folktales to be gathered from all parts of Japan and China.
Early popular kaidan, such as Botan Doro, were translated from Chinese folktales and given a Japanese setting. Other yūrei originate in Japan, either as lo
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In this entire body of myth and legend, which includes books, folktales, and plays, the souls described can be roughly divided into three forms, de
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* More information can be found in the collected Norwegian folktales of ''Peder Christian Asbjørnsen'' and ''Jørgen Moe''.
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...ard; dressed in the everyday clothing of a farmer. However, there are also folktales where he is believed to be a shapeshifter able to take a shape far larger
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...the placenta (which is devoured by the Penanggal after it is buried). All folktales also agree that a Penanggal flies as it searches and lands to feed.
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...[fiction]], but the concepts may overlap. Notably, during [[Romanticism]], folktales and fairy tales were perceived as eroded fragments of earlier mythology (fa
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