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unusual facts about British folklore


Beth Webb

Webb's interests include British folklore, and she visits ancient sites of the UK as part of research for her books.


The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy

The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy is a fantasy trilogy written by Clare B. Dunkle with many roots in British folklore and Scandinavian myths.


see also

Carbonel series

It has three novels, first Carbonel: the King of the Cats and two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel (Puffin, 1961) and Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat (Kestrel Books, 1978), and was based on the old British folk tale "The King of the Cats".

The Folklore Society

Some prominent members were identified as the "great team" in Richard Dorson's now long outdated 1967 history of British folklore, late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the field, these were Andrew Lang, Edwin Sidney Hartland, A. Nutt, William Alexander Clouston, Edward Clodd and Gomme.