Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Welcome Traveler

There is a wealth of folklore content available (stories, essays, etc.) and I'd like to share it with you. I'm especially interested in curating variants of folktales for sake of 1) furthering comparative studies and 2) giving storytellers material for their own retellings.


Note: This blog gets its name from the opening narration of Merlin (2008).

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