When screenwriter and director Louis Paxton began working on his Sundance Film Festival feature debut of “The Incomer,” he did not shy away from the mythical. He leaned into it.

“Islander” is a tale steeped in Scottish folklore, but it’s less about traditional myths than the myths we tell ourselves. A gentle two-hander, it’s held together by a mystic strangeness and mystery ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...