Eighteenth century French-Canadian folklore will come to life during Fort Fright at Colonial Michilimackinac, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7.

CREOLE'S COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES; LOUISIANA FOLK TALES. In French Dialect and English Translation. Collected and edited by Alcee Fortier. 8vo. New-York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.

The stories, originally collected in the 19th century by François-Marie Luzel (1821-1895), have been edited, translated and introduced by British folklore expert Michael Wilson.

In 1697, he published a collection of fairy tales pulled from French oral folklore, which was in vogue among intellectuals of the age. Legend has it that he was inspired by the Chateau d’Uss ...

The Vourdalak adapts Aleksey K. Tolstoy’s 1839 novella, The Family of the Vourdalak, which predates both Le Fanu’s 1873 Carmilla and Stoker’s 1897 Dracula.Vourdalaks differ from our ...

Stories about the Rougarou vary considerably, even within Cajun folklore. Growing up on the bayou in Chauvin, Louisiana, in the ’80s, Jonathan Foret says he heard tales of the Rougarou “left ...

Fabled Sword From Medieval French Folklore Disappears Known as the “French Excalibur,” the blade is said to have hung from a rock face in the village of Rocamadour for 1,300 years ...