Category: Folklore

  • The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

    The Parintins Folklore Festival Is One of Brazil’s Liveliest and Most Extraordinary Events

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     Ed Cunningham of Time Out travels to the heart of the Amazon rainforest to attend the Parintins Folklore Festival, one of Brazil’s liveliest and most extraordinary events. Here’s his description of the event. It sounds AWESOME! Taking place on an island in the middle of the Amazon river, Parintins is accessible only by plane or…

  • West of Roan – Queen of Eyes

    West of Roan – Queen of Eyes

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    Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter, also part of the freak-folk foursome Doran, realize the potential of the concept album on multiple levels. First, there is method. Writing original songs that quilt together stories from many different origin points, Schermer and Showalter seek the commonalities among legends, myths and folktales from diverse spots on the globe: their…

  • Tales from Granny Squannit

    Tales from Granny Squannit

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    Joan Tavares Avant brings us Tales from Granny Squannit in the Mashpee Enterprise. Mrs. Frederick Gardner, Mashpee Wampanoag, shared the legend about the Screecham Sisters with author Elizabeth Reynard, who wrote it down around 1934. No one could not settle on Screecham’s Island, which lies off Cotuit near Mashpee, because the ghost of Hannah Screecham…

  • The Fox Wife

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    NPR introduces Yangsze Choo’s new book The Fox Wife on their Book of the Day series. The book “blossomed from that core idea behind the title, of a woman who also happens to be a fox. But beyond that, it’s a story about a mother avenging her child, about a murder investigation in early 20th…