Stories, Legends & Folktales from Across the World
Folklore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore
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Stories, Legends & Folktales from Across the World
For Want of a Nail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost,
for want of a shoe the horse was lost,
for want of a horse the knight was lost,
for want of a knight the battle was lost,
for want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
So a kingdom was lost – all for want of a nail.
Knight Version
JLA: The Nail
DC Comics, 1998
The Elephant and the Blind Men
https://ofaphilosophicalnature.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-blind-men-and-elephant.html
The Stonecutter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stonecutter
Midas: The Golden Touch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas
The Emperor's New Clothes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
Narcissus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)
Echo and Narcissus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus
Daedalus and Icarus
http://thanasis.com/icarus.htm
The Clinging Creatures
https://ofaphilosophicalnature.blogspot.com/2008/12/clinging-creatures-richard-bach-1936.html
The Lottery
https://ofaphilosophicalnature.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-lottery.html
All the World's A Stage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world%27s_a_stage
Folklore and Mythology
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
American Folklore
http://www.americanfolklore.net/
From Around the World: Stories, Legends & Folktales
http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/title.htm
Animal Myths and Legends
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
Native American Legends, Folk Tales, and Stories
http://www.ocbtracker.com/ladypixel/legend.html
Folktales from Japan
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html
Aaron’s World of Stories
http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/folk.html
Stories in a Nutshell
http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html
Folktales
http://www.pitara.com/talespin/folktales.asp
The Gold Scales
http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html#d3
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Camel's nose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose
Creeping normality
Foot in the door – a persuasion technique
Slippery slope – an argument, sometimes fallacious
Domino effect
For Want of a Nail – the claim that large consequences may follow from inattention to small details
Boiling frog – the notion that gradual change tends to go unnoticed until it is too late, often discussed by drawing an analogy to a false story about what will allegedly happen to a frog in gradually warmed water
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Alliteration
Broken windows theory
Butterfly effect
Camel's nose
Cascading failure
Causality
Chaos theory
Domino effect
Folklore
Parallelism
Proverb
Remoteness in English law
Rhyme
Slippery slope
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Below is listed a small sampling of types and examples of verbal lore.
Aloha
Ballads
Blessings
Bluegrass
Chants
Charms
Cinderella
Country music
Cowboy poetry
Creation stories
Curses
English similes
Epic poetry
Fable
Fairy tale
Folk belief
Folk etymologies
Folk metaphors
Folk poetry
Folk music
Folksongs
Folk speech
Folktales of oral tradition
Ghostlore
Greetings
Hog-calling
Insults
Jokes
Keening
Latrinalia
Legends
Limericks
Lullabies
Myth
Oaths
Leave-taking formulas
Fakelore
Place names
Prayers at bedtime
Proverbs
Retorts
Riddle
Roasts
Sagas
Sea shanties
Street vendors
Superstition
Tall tale
Taunts
Toasts
Tongue-twisters
Urban legends
Word games
Yodeling
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This list represents just a small sampling of objects and skills that are included in studies of material culture.
Autograph books
Bunad
Embroidery
Folk art
Folk costume
Folk medicines
Food recipes and presentation
Foodways
Common handicrafts
Handmade toys
Haystacks
Hex signs
Decorative ironworks
Pottery
Quilting
Stone sculpting
Tipis
Traditional fences
Vernacular architecture
Weather vanes
Woodworking
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This is just a small sampling of types and examples of customary lore.
Amish
Barn raising
Birthday
Cakewalk
Cat's cradle
Chaharshanbe Suri
Christmas
Crossed fingers
Folk dance
Folk drama
Folk medicine
Giving the finger
Halloween
Hoodening
Gestures
Groundhog Day
Louisiana Creole people
Mime
Native Hawaiians
Ouiji board
Powwows
Practical jokes
Saint John's Eve
Shakers
Symbols
Thanksgiving
Thumbs down
Trick or Treating
Whaling
Yo-yos
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Below is listed just a small sampling of types and examples of childlore and games.
Buck buck
Counting rhymes
Dandling rhymes
Finger and toe rhymes
Counting-out games
Dreidel
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Games
Traditional games
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Lullabies
Nursery rhymes
Playground songs
Ball-bouncing rhymes
Rhymes
Riddles
Ring a Ring o Roses
Jump-rope rhymes
Stickball
Street games
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See also
For a list of folklores of countries, see Category:Folklore by country.
For a list of folklores of European countries, see European folklore.
For a list of folklores by region, see Category:Folklore by region.
For a list of folklores by ethnicity, see Category:Folklore by ethnicity.
Applied folklore
Costumbrismo
Family folklore
Folkloristics
Folklore studies
Intangible cultural heritage
Legend
Memetics
Public folklore
The law of conservation of misery
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Category: Folklore by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Folklore_by_country
Fairy tales by country
Ghosts by country
Legends by country
A
Albanian folklore
American folklore
Argentine folklore
Armenian folklore
Australian folklore
Austrian folklore
Azerbaijani folklore
B
Bangladeshi folklore
Belarusian folklore
Belgian folklore
Belizean folklore
Bosnia and Herzegovina folklore
Brazilian folklore
British folklore
Bulgarian folklore
Burmese folklore
C
Cambodian folklore
Canadian folklore
Chilean folklore
Chinese folklore
Colombian folklore
Costa Rican folklore
Croatian folklore
Czech folklore
D
Dutch folklore
E
Egyptian folklore
Salvadoran folklore
English folklore
Estonian folklore
F
French folklore
G
Georgian folklore
German folklore
Greek folklore
Guatemalan folklore
H
Haitian folklore
Honduran folklore
Hungarian folklore
I
Indian folklore
Indonesian folklore
Iranian folklore
Iraqi folklore
Irish folklore
Italian folklore
J
Jamaican folklore
Japanese folklore
K
Kazakh folklore
L
Laotian folklore
Latvian folklore
Liberian folklore
Lithuanian folklore
M
Malaysian folklore
Maltese folklore
Mauritian folklore
Mexican folklore
N
Nepalese folklore
New Zealand folklore
North Macedonia folklore
Norwegian folklore
P
Pakistani folklore
Peruvian folklore
Polish folklore
Portuguese folklore
Q
Qatari folklore
R
Romanian folklore
Folklore of Russia
S
Samoan folklore
Scottish folklore
Serbian folklore
Seychellois folklore
Slovak folklore
Slovenian folklore
Somalian folklore
South African folklore
South Korean folklore
Spanish folklore
Sri Lankan folklore
Swedish folklore
Swiss folklore
T
Taiwanese folklore
Thai folklore
Trinidad and Tobago folklore
Turkish folklore
U
Ukrainian folklore
Uruguayan folklore
V
Venezuelan folklore
W
Welsh folklore
Y
Yugoslav folklore
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Pages in category "Folklore by country"
A
Aguada, Puerto Rico
Arab culture
Australian folklore
B
Basílica of the Virgin of Monserrat
Becerrillo
C
Canadian folklore
Caribbean folklore
Chinese folklore
Chowk poorana
Colombian folklore
Culture of Nepal
Czech folklore
H
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
I
Folklore of India
Folklore of Indonesia
Iranian folklore
K
Khotso Sethuntsa
Korean folklore
L
Latin American culture
M
Folklore of the Maldives
P
Pakistani folklore
Q
Qatari folklore
R
Roman folklore
S
South African folklore
T
Turkish folklore
U
Folklore of the United States