Folk horror has been a favorite of horror fans for decades, stretching back to the original Wicker Manand continuing to the ...

Among these is the Hidebehind, a cryptid rooted in American folklore, renowned for its uncanny ability to evade detection. Often described as a "nocturnal, forest-dwelling specter," the Hidebehind ...

By the time she left — in a hurry, at knifepoint — she had collected a slew of stories that would become the first book of African American folklore written by an African American. For Hurston ...

The Journal of American Folklore Vol. 15, No. 56, Jan. - Mar., 1902 The Bear-Maiden. An Ojibwa Folk-Tale fro... The Bear-Maiden. An Ojibwa Folk-Tale from lac Courte Oreille Reservation, Wisconsin This ...

This account comes from Robert J. Allison, in "The Origins of African-American Culture," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30/3 (1999): 475-481.