The folklore behind lone chimneys left standing in Appalachia
In Appalachian folklore, chimneys are often described as "silent monuments to lives long vanished." This video from the history page @appalachian_bluebird explores the folklore beh...
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In Appalachian folklore, chimneys are often described as "silent monuments to lives long vanished." This video from the history page @appalachian_bluebird explores the folklore beh...
Every culture on earth has invented a version of the same story. Someone makes a deal with darkness, gets exactly what they asked for, and loses everything that made them want it i...
According to centuries-old folklore, La Lechuza has the face of an old woman atop the body of an owl and preys on drunk men and children in the dead of night. The post The Legend O...
The American Folk Art Museum admits that, “The exact definition of folk art can be nebulous and is often contested,” but nevertheless strives to define it as any art that celebrate...
Dark Irish tales about King of the Cats, the source of superstitions about black cats and graveyards.
FAIRMONT – Oh, the stories they could tell … and do. Members of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild will take the stage at Fairmont State University to usher in spring […] The pos...
A look at the life of folklorist Ella Young in this piece from the American Irish Historical Society's (AIHS) Treasures of Time series.
FAIRMONT – For more than 50 years, Judy Prozzillo Byers has been collecting and sharing stories – from across town and across oceans. The Fairmont Arts and Humanities Commission h...
May Eve is sometimes called "the other Halloween". In Northern England in bygone centuries it was celebrated as Mischief Night with rowdiness and trickery. Steve Roud in The Englis...
Archival footage from an Irish pub features traditional Irish storytelling and song more than 40 years ago.
Tex Owens managed to turn his 'Snow White'-esque fantasy into "The Cattle Call", one of the greatest Western tunes of all time. The post How a Rural ‘Snow White’ Daydream Helped C...
Making Fools of us All
The nighttime adventure of an Appalachian lady who kept her curtains open after dusk turned into a viral TikTok video when she realize...
I like big books and I cannot lie...
How hot do you think it’s going to get in Yakima this year? Do you think we’ll break the record high of 113 degrees? Continue reading…
The girl said she came from a place called Saint Martin's Land, where the sun never rose, and everything sat in permanent twilight. She and a younger boy had been herding cattle, h...
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society is shining a spotlight on the cultures that helped shape the community.
Whether being roared out in sports stadiums or being crooned in cozy sing-songs, these are the most popular Irish folk songs.
How do we know what has gone before in music and folklore? Musical explorers with reel-to-reel recorders and notebooks went out and found music, recording musicians and singers and...
A proposed Ohio bill could name the Loveland Frogman the state’s official cryptid. Here’s how the four-foot amphibious legend grew from local sighting to cultural icon.
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society is shining a spotlight on the cultures that helped shape the community.
Irish storyteller Helena Byrne's recording of “The Addergoole 14" tells how 14 people from this parish traveled to a new life aboard the Titanic, but only three survived.
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