As a disclaimer, this is one of the posts where I am not writing about a "legend" or "myth", but about controversial historical documentation of a real people. The Tula are a possibly Cadoan people who inhabited the region west of the Mississippi, in present-day western Arkansas (around the Caddo Gap community). Not much is…
Hi everyone and welcome to our third story in this series, coming this time from the Hopi people of the American southwest. I knew I wanted to share a story told by Native people of the region and like the story from Alabama, I had a hard time finding a story that was definitively from…
Greetings! Installment 2 of my Fifty Folktales, coming to youueme of the Russian Far East. The Yupik are an Eskimo people, related to the Inuit and Aleut people. (Side note: like I'm sure many non-indigenous Arctic people, I was led to believe that Eskimo was a derogatory term and could be replaced with Inuit. But,…
The first folktale from my Fifty Folktales series takes us to the first state (alphabetically): Alabama, and a story called Never Mind Them Watermelons "Well now, old Sam Gibb, he didn't believe in ghosts. Not one bit. Everyone in town knew the old log cabin back in the woods was haunted, but Sam Gibb just…
Here is my subjective collection of the strangest, most obscure, most bizarre folktales/pieces of folklore and legend from the United States. More specifically, I chose the strangest tale from each state and have assembled them here.
Hello there. My name is Zach. I'm a graduate student who loves learning stuff both in and out of the classroom, and after looking at the dozens of podcasts I had queued up, YouTube videos I'd saved, books stacked on my desk, tabs open on my Wikipedia app, and assorted thoughts inching across pages of…
Zach Learns Stuff 