Popular Southern folktales fall into a few enduring traditions: trickster tales, supernatural haint lore, Gullah Geechee and African American folklore, Appalachian Mountain legends, and cautionary tales inspired by real people and places. On The Moonlit Road, you’ll find the Boo Hag alongside the curse of traveling preacher Lorenzo Dow and the powerful legend of the “Flying Africans” of Ibo Landing – stories passed down through generations and still shared today.

Learn more about the history and characteristics of folktales in our Schoolhouse guide to folklore and folktales.