Okiagari-koboshi is a good-luck charm; such popular beliefs are part of folklore. The word folklore was first used by the English antiquarian William Thoms in a letter published by the London Journal Athenaeum in 1846.[1] Folklore is the body of...

Dutch folklore

Scottish folklore

Scandinavian folklore

English folklore

Paganism in the Alpine region

German folklore

Swiss folklore

Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore

Germanic folklore is recorded folklore of the Germanic speaking peoples. It is often used as a starting point for the reconstruction of a Common Germanic mythology: