For centuries, myths have shaped the way we see gods, heroes, and even ourselves. But what if the stories we grew up believing were only half true? These eight books take readers behind the curtain to ...

SILVERHTORNE – Former Summer County resident and professional storyteller Marge Fallon, “the Myth Maker,” will treat families to a couple of tales at 7 p.m. today at the Silverthorne Pavilion for the ...

In a new book, mythographer Martin Shaw says humans need stories that reflect back to us the challenges we know we must face.

From “Cinderella” to “The Three Little Pigs,” there are stories that are so deeply embedded in our literature and culture that we might not recall the first time we heard them. Certainly, though, ...

Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...

David E. DeCosse is the director of Campus Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. We live by myths, stories, and traditions--and we can die by them, too. I think this way ...

SINCE the days when Castrén made his arduous journeys of linguistic exploration in Siberia, or when the brothers Grimm collected their rich treasures of folk-lore from the lips of German peasants, an ...

August 22 is World Folklore Day, based on a letter from August 22, 1846 where the word “folklore” was used for the first time to describe oral stories that are passed down through generations. These ...