The Legend of the Paper Crane(mazdastories.com)
27 points by vismit2000 | 12 comments
A Mazda Stories feature on the origami paper crane, its uses in gifts and education, and the legend of its miraculous powers.
#folklore on Hacker News
3 stories tagged folklore, newest first.
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)(cs.cmu.edu)
1552 points by isomorph | 461 comments
A classic humorous anecdote about a car that seemingly wouldn't start only after its owner bought vanilla ice cream, hosted as a text file at CMU.
Telling the Bees(en.wikipedia.org)
346 points by penguin_booze | 219 comments
Wikipedia article on 'telling the bees', a European folk tradition of informing beehives about important household events like deaths and marriages.