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Childhood Myths We Accepted as Absolute Fact (and Maybe Still Do)

Wishing at 11:11, lifting your feet over railroad tracks, and fearing Bloody Mary: the childhood myths and rituals we swore by. Continue reading…

Childhood Myths We Accepted as Absolute Fact (and Maybe Still Do)

Wishing at 11:11, lifting your feet over railroad tracks, and fearing Bloody Mary: the childhood myths and rituals we swore by. Continue reading…

Folclore y cuentos de la costa de Estonia

Diez años después del primer Mega-Evento celebrado en Estonia, TheCoastalCrew volvió con otra celebración de la comunidad de geocaching de Estonia. En un soleado fin de semana de a...

What does folklore have to say? It helps uncover untold facets of Indigenous stories overlooked for generations

I never thought of documenting the Indigenous Tharu folklore until my grandmother left this world. Now she is no more with us, I yearn for those priceless words of wisdom.

An AI-generated Rumpelstiltskin meme is freaking out much of the internet

Rumpelstiltskin famously spun straw into gold. Now, AI has spun the fairy-tale character into an eerie internet meme. In recent days, a clip began circulating widely online feat...

Folklore and Tales from the Coast in Estonia

Ten years after Estonia’s first-ever Mega-Event, TheCoastalCrew returned with another celebration of Estonia’s geocaching community. On a sunny weekend in August, nearly 800 geocac...

Absolutely Wild Superstitions People Still Live By

Childhood Myths We Accepted as Absolute Fact (and Maybe Still Do)

Wishing at 11:11, lifting your feet over railroad tracks, and fearing Bloody Mary: the childhood myths and rituals we swore by. Continue reading…

The transgender urge to become folklore

If i run into the woods...

Weird Traditions, Stranger Origins

Before Google there was the seanchaí and everything they knew was held in memory

Ireland’s traditional storytellers carried the folklore, genealogy and local history of whole districts in their heads and passed it on by voice alone.

How the Cat in the Hat Became Internet Horror’s Fastest Built Boogeyman

The image barely varies. A porch light. A parked car. Somebody’s actual street in that grainy wash a doorbell camera gives you after ten at night. Standing in the middle of it is a...

These Internet Mysteries Got Me Hooked!

A Few Internet Rabbit-Holes That Only Made Us More Curious

Myth For Today

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Folklore en Verhalen van de Kust in Estland

Tien jaar na Estlands eerste Mega-event ooit, keerde TheCoastalCrew terug met een nieuwe viering van de Estse geocachegemeenschap. In een zonnig weekend in augustus kwamen bijna 80...

A strange article about Glen Hansard led me to the promise of €500k before it disappeared

Our FactCheck editor details the internet trends seen by a thirtysomething-year-old man.

Seven Irish legends to tell your kids as the dark evenings close in

A wailing fairy woman who appears in three forms, four children cursed into swans, and a boy who earned his name by killing a guard dog with a hurl and a sliotar.

What Does Folklore Have to Say? It Helps Uncover Untold Facets of Indigenous Stories Overlooked for Generations

Some interesting stories I came across during documentation of Tharu Indigenous folklore. The post What Does Folklore Have to Say? It Helps Uncover Untold Facets of Indigenous Stor...

A stumble into faeryland

IrishCentral Contributor Kevin O'Hara recounts the fantastic faery tales he heard from a stranger, Belfast man Martin Bailey.