Category: Folktales

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Ferry of Carnoët

‘About a league below Quimperle is the ferry of Carnoet. Some portions of the old chateau of Carnoet still remain, and tradition says that this building was one of the many residences of the...

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Baba Yaga

Somewhere, I cannot tell you exactly where, but certainly in vast Russia, there lived a peasant with his wife and they had twins—son and daughter. One day the wife died and the husband mourned...

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Clay’s Light

In Halton Holegate, Lincolnshire, it is said that whenever someone in the village is about to die, a mysterious light will appear above their home. The origins of this legend stretch back to the...

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Bran

Finn had a splendid hound. That was Bran. You have heard talk of Bran. This is the colour was on him: Yellow feet that were on Bran, Two black sides, and belly white, Grayish...

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Grian’s Mound

Grian’s Mound can be found just outside Tuamgraney, from which, according to legend the village it gets its name, Tomb of Gráinne or mound of the Sun. Grian (Gráinne or Griene) was said to...