Vampires are likely the most famous night dwellers . Most stories about them originated in central and eastern Europe, and later got popularized by Bram Stoker's Dracula. But as the black-cape-wearing ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

The Ohio Krampus Society is based out of Kent, Ohio, and raises awareness of the beast from European folklore.

Coming across the name “Krampus” years ago made Tania Yager curious. The horned, anthropomorphic figure of central European folklore is known as a counterpart to Saint Nicholas, one who punishes ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of ...

Tyler Fischer is the Assignments Editor and News Editor at DualShockers. He specializes in writing breaking news, managing assignments, and organization. Born and raised in New York, Tyler studies ...

Traditions of dance and folklore have long been tied to changing seasons and agricultural cycles, and so too have women been linked throughout history to the fertility of the natural world. Basing her ...

THE International Association for European Ethnology and Folklore was formed in November, 1935. Its first Congress was held in the New College, Edinburgh, on July 14-21. The Scottish Anthropological ...

Maldita Castilla EX, now know as Cursed Castilla, is a sidescrolling action game inspired by Ghosts ‘N’ Goblins with a bestiary that draws from European mythology, folklore, and fiction. While Don ...

It's an age-old folk story: watch your kids around the Gypsies, or they'll steal them. This week in Ireland, police wrongly took two Roma children from their respective families simply because they ...