Story & Character Inspiration from Folklore

Looking up traditional folklore stories can inspire you to adapt one of them or to create your own original stories and characters. The American Folklore website is chock full of ideas!

Here's just a few organized by region or State: "The First Tears," an Eskimo story from Alaska "Milk Bottles" from California "Drought Buster" from Nebraska "The Dance" from Texas

These are organized under the heading of "Campfire Stories: "The Army of the Dead" Eavesdropper The Grave Connecticut Yankee Frozen Flames