The commons
What the crowd carries.
A living collection of folklore, oral tradition and lived culture — the knowledge that was never fully written down. Browse it as a person; read it as a machine. ↳ for inorganics: /feed.json
Anansi
Akan (Ashanti) and West African diaspora
The Akan trickster spider whose stories travelled the Atlantic and shaped diasporic storytelling.
FolktaleBaba Yaga
Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and others)
The ambiguous Slavic forest crone — neither simply villain nor helper — who lives in a hut on chicken legs.
LegendLa Chasse-galerie
Québécois / French-Canadian
A Québécois legend in which lumberjacks make a pact with the devil to fly home by canoe on New Year's Eve.
LegendLa Corriveau
Québécois / French-Canadian
A real 18th-century woman whose gibbeted execution turned her into an enduring Québécois ghost figure.
Custom & practiceLe temps des sucres
Québécois / French-Canadian
The Québécois maple-sugaring season and the social ritual of the sugar shack.
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