Incorporating folklore can add authenticity, richness and whole new layers of meaning to historical fiction. Novelist Melissa Harrison explores how traditional practices and beliefs around the harvest informed her creative process when she was writing her new book, All Among the Barley
Find out more about Fascinating Folklore from John Reppion and PJ Holden!
In her book, Enchanted Tales, Laura Sampson retells the enchanting story of ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’, a tale from France by Charles Deulin.
Mark Norman explores the folklore of bees and beekeeping in his new book, ‘Telling the Bees and Other Customs: The Folklore of Rural Crafts’.
In the Victorian tradition, every Australian native flower has a meaning and, as she settles into her new life, Alice uses this language of flowers to say the things that are too hard to speak.
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