English Folklore - Freeform
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After centuries of coping after Arthur’s death and the loss of everyone he’s ever loved, Merlin’s mind, his soul, has paid the price. When Arthur returns, magic follows, dredging up the sins of the past and the horrors that always lingered beneath the surface.
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what light we catch by The_Side
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
06 Nov 2019
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Uther's list of mistakes could span the length of Briton three times over, but fostering his children in houses of other petty kings has to be one of the worst.
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Feuilly has heard many stories of Paris. He comes to see if he can make himself a fortune.
A fusion fic of an English folk tale, Dick Whittington and His Cat.
Written for Feuilly Week 2020 because I love this bean and he deserves the world
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The Name of a Wolf by MiraMara for LampsOccassionallyWrites
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2022
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James discovers an old book on English folklore about werewolves.
Based on this post on Tumblr: https://at.tumblr.com/annabellioncourt/theres-a-lovely-old-english-myth-that-if-someone/ja4lzvsv0rpx
There's a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.
Happy birthday, my lampshade
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Dipper and Wendy finally get together... and she is almost immediately kidnapped, and spirited away to a place called the Green Realm--a place to where only gods or creatures with magical blood can travel. In order to rescue Wendy, Dipper makes a deal with a trickster god... and becomes a trickster god.
This is a Celtic/Norse mythology-based AU that I wrote several years ago. I had to take it down for awhile, but now it's back!
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- Part 1 of Gravity Falls: Worlds Apart Trilogy
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The Early Fieldnotes of William Feeney and Emily Hayward, Monster-Hunters by imissthembutitwasntadisaster
Fandoms: Original Work
27 Feb 2025
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Emily and Will are monster-hunters in a world very like our own, where the belief in monsters of folklore is only recently on the rise once again. With Emily's dreams that can tell the future and Will's unfortunate doggerel abilities, the two of them get along fairly well for themselves. But when Emily sees a Shuck, a harbinger of death, myth and folklore begin to clash, and the two begin to question how far faith can really take someone.
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The Apple Tree Man by FuzzyGoblin for startledplatypus
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Jun 2024
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In English folklore, the Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. Tales abound around this mysterious fae, who is known to share gifts and blessings with humans that give offerings. But as with any fae, caution is advised before accepting any gifts, lest a blessing become a debt. Be sure to leave three apples on each tree, one for the fairy, one for the fae and one for the Apple Tree Man.
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As a girl, starving for an education, Sofia soaks up knowledge from the staff of Broadwater Hall. Fairy tales and silly little tricks – nothing anyone would deem important. But as a grown woman, it is exactly that knowledge which helps her level the playing field against the demon Nell Jackson.
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Why Sofia pockets Nell’s comb after the fight with Herne the Hunter.
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Based on the chained oak urban legend based around Alton Towers. Was for an old zine.
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“A curse then,” she started, stepping back from the road. “A curse on you, Earl! The great oak that sits at your manor's side will serve as your family tree! For every branch of that oak that falls or breaks, a member of your family will be struck down! Maybe when your kin number dwindles, you’ll remember this moment and regret your cold and selfish actions.” She laughed. However, no mirth could be heard from the bitter sound.
Her feet scuffled back again onto the wet grass before she slipped behind the bushes, away into the night as the wind that shook the carriage ebbed away, taking the oppressive atmosphere with it.
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Lady is more than ready to go kill that dragon that Dante promised her. Luckily for her they received another quest immediately after getting back. Apparently, a Princess Lucia has requested help in slaying a knucker, a type of water dragon, that had appeared and poisoned the wells. A dragon is a dragon, and the two accept the request… but not all is as it seems, and Princess Lucia’s father, King Arius seems to have secrets of his own…
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- Part 2 of DRAGON MAY CRY
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Nell and Billy stumble upon a fairy ring. Nell has questions about it, but as usual, Billy doesn’t have the answers she’s looking for.
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- Part 4 of Ties that bind and break (fox spring)