✦ Folklore Finder ✦An Atlas of Myths, Legends, & Stories1837 to 1901, the height of industrialisation and empire, and also the great age of folklore collecting as a formal discipline — the word 'folklore' itself was coined in 1846. Spiritualism, ghost stories and fairy photography all flourished alongside a genuine anxiety that rural oral tradition was vanishing and needed to be written down before it was lost.
No legends have been dated to this period yet — check back as the archive grows.