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class="firstHeading" lang="en">Category:Folklore</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From RationalWiki</div> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div style="border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding:0.5em; background:#FCFCB8; margin:0em;"><i><b>See the main article for this category, <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a>.</b></i></div> <table style="width:100%; margin-left:-3px;"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:60%; vertical-align:top"><div style="margin:0; margin-right:6px; margin-top:4px; border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding:0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#f5fffa; align:right;"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Folklore"><font color="black">Folklore</font></span></h2> <div class="floatleft"><a href="/wiki/File:Icon_folklore.svg" class="image"><img alt="Icon folklore.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/43/Icon_folklore.svg/70px-Icon_folklore.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="70" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/43/Icon_folklore.svg/105px-Icon_folklore.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/43/Icon_folklore.svg/140px-Icon_folklore.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></div><font color="black"><a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a> is the body of traditional beliefs and stories held by a culture.</font><div style="clear:left"></div><br /> </div> </td> <td style="width:40%; vertical-align:top;"><div style="margin:0; margin-right:-6px; margin-top:4px; border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding:0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#f0f8ff; align:left;"> <h2><span id="Best-edited_articles_in_the_"Folklore"_category"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Best-edited_articles_in_the_.22Folklore.22_category"><font color="black">Best-edited articles in the "Folklore" category</font></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">Vampire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate">Gamergate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racialism" title="Racialism">Racialism</a></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table>    </div><div class="mw-category-generated" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div id="mw-subcategories"> <h2>Subcategories</h2> <p>This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. </p><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><h3>D</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Deep_web" title="Category:Deep web">Deep web</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 7 pages, and 15 files" dir="ltr">(7 P, 15 F)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul><h3>P</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Pseudomythology" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Pseudomythology" title="Category:Pseudomythology">Pseudomythology</a>‎ <span title="Contains 2 subcategories, 20 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(2 C, 20 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul><h3>S</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeEmptyBullet">► </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Superstition" title="Category:Superstition">Superstition</a>‎ <span title="Contains 0 subcategories, 12 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(12 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul><h3>U</h3> <ul><li><div class="CategoryTreeSection"><div class="CategoryTreeItem"><span class="CategoryTreeBullet"><span class="CategoryTreeToggle" data-ct-title="Urban_legends" data-ct-state="collapsed">►</span> </span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Urban_legends" title="Category:Urban legends">Urban legends</a>‎ <span title="Contains 1 subcategory, 23 pages, and 0 files" dir="ltr">(1 C, 23 P)</span></div><div class="CategoryTreeChildren" style="display:none"></div></div></li></ul></div> </div><div id="mw-pages"> <h2>Pages in category "Folklore"</h2> <p>The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. </p><div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-category"><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>1</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/13" title="13">13</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>2</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/27_Club" title="27 Club">27 Club</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>A</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abaddon" title="Abaddon">Abaddon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alien_abduction" title="Alien abduction">Alien abduction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alligators_in_the_sewers" title="Alligators in the sewers">Alligators in the sewers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_tall_tales" title="American tall tales">American tall tales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror" title="The Amityville Horror">The Amityville Horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amulet" title="Amulet">Amulet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>B</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baphomet" title="Baphomet">Baphomet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bigfoot" title="Bigfoot">Bigfoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black-eyed_children" title="Black-eyed children">Black-eyed children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackface" title="Blackface">Blackface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project" title="The Blair Witch Project">The Blair Witch Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_libel" title="Blood libel">Blood libel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_type" title="Blood type">Blood type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Brigid" title="Saint Brigid">Saint Brigid</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>C</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CAIMEO" title="CAIMEO">CAIMEO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" title="Joseph Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cargo_cult" title="Cargo cult">Cargo cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Casta%C3%B1eda" title="Carlos Castañeda">Carlos Castañeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cautionary_tale" title="Cautionary tale">Cautionary tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant" title="Cerne Abbas Giant">Cerne Abbas Giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cernunnos" title="Cernunnos">Cernunnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chain_letter" title="Chain letter">Chain letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Christopher" title="Saint Christopher">Saint Christopher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chupacabra" title="Chupacabra">Chupacabra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coast_to_Coast_AM" title="Coast to Coast AM">Coast to Coast AM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curandero" title="Curandero">Curandero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curse" title="Curse">Curse</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>D</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danu" title="Danu">Danu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diamond" title="Diamond">Diamond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowsing" title="Dowsing">Dowsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon_(fran%C3%A7ais)" title="Dragon (français)">Dragon (français)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf" title="Dwarf">Dwarf</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>E</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Easter_Bunny" title="Easter Bunny">Easter Bunny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elf" title="Elf">Elf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>F</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fun:Fairies" title="Fun:Fairies">Fun:Fairies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_ring" title="Fairy ring">Fairy ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tales" title="Fairy tales">Fairy tales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fake_top_level_domain_names" title="Fake top level domain names">Fake top level domain names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fakelore" title="Fakelore">Fakelore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fan_death" title="Fan death">Fan death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feral_child" title="Feral child">Feral child</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">Folk religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_remedy" title="Folk remedy">Folk remedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_science" title="Folk science">Folk science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortune_cookie" title="Fortune cookie">Fortune cookie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1tima" title="Fátima">Fátima</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>G</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gadolinium_Gallium_Garnet" title="Gadolinium Gallium Garnet">Gadolinium Gallium Garnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate">Gamergate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamergate_(%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8)" title="Gamergate (български)">Gamergate (български)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">Ghost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant" title="Giant">Giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas" title="Marija Gimbutas">Marija Gimbutas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goat" title="Goat">Goat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog" title="Gog and Magog">Gog and Magog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" title="The Golden Bough">The Golden Bough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groundhog_Day" title="Groundhog Day">Groundhog Day</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>H</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halloween_(espa%C3%B1ol)" title="Halloween (español)">Halloween (español)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halloween_(fran%C3%A7ais)" title="Halloween (français)">Halloween (français)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haloveno" title="Haloveno">Haloveno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbal_supplement" title="Herbal supplement">Herbal supplement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Foreskin" title="Holy Foreskin">Holy Foreskin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Grail" title="Holy Grail">Holy Grail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Lance" title="Holy Lance">Holy Lance</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>I</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Incubus_and_succubus_myths" title="Incubus and succubus myths">Incubus and succubus myths</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>J</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper" title="Jack the Ripper">Jack the Ripper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%B4akvo_la_Bu%C4%89isto" title="Ĵakvo la Buĉisto">Ĵakvo la Buĉisto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Devil" title="Jersey Devil">Jersey Devil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinn" title="Jinn">Jinn</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>K</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koro" title="Koro">Koro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krampus" title="Krampus">Krampus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristnaska_Viro" title="Kristnaska Viro">Kristnaska Viro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sankta_Kristoforo" title="Sankta Kristoforo">Sankta Kristoforo</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-category-group"><h3>L</h3> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Legend_tripping" title="Legend tripping">Legend tripping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leprechaun" title="Leprechaun">Leprechaun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster" title="Loch Ness Monster">Loch Ness Monster</a></li> 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