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Welcome to Llegend\u00e0rium. My name is Arnau Folch, and I hope this space will allow you to discover and enjoy traditional narratives from cultures around the world.<\/p>\n

I am an essayist and researcher specialising in oral tradition and in narrative genres such as legends, folktales, fables and ballads. In 2017, I founded Llegend\u00e0rium<\/strong>, an independent project devoted to the study and dissemination of narrative folklore. During its first phase, between 2017 and 2024, I published hundreds of articles focused primarily on Catalan tradition and brought together a broad community of readers interested in these subjects.<\/p>\n

In 2026, Llegend\u00e0rium begins a new editorial phase, adopting a comparative and international perspective. Without abandoning the Catalan folklore from which it originated, the project is broadening its scope to encompass European and global folklore, connections between cultures and the persistence of traditional structures in the contemporary imagination.<\/p>\n

I have published a trilogy of essays with Hermenaute devoted to some of the darkest, most censored and most deeply buried expressions of Catalan oral tradition, examined in relation to tales from other cultures and historical periods: Rondalles de Sang<\/strong><\/em> (2021), Rondalles de Difunts<\/strong><\/em> (2022) and Rondalles del Diable<\/strong><\/em> (2026). The three volumes recover and analyse narratives concerning crime, violence, death, the return of the dead, evil and the figure of the devil, but also the fears, conflicts, loves, hopes and contradictions of the communities that transmitted them.<\/p>\n

I am currently completing two new essays on folklore, scheduled for publication in 2027, which address subjects distinct from those explored in the previous trilogy. My other areas of research include the survival of archetypes and folklore motifs in popular culture, the international circulation and comparative study of legends and folktales, and the contemporary recovery of traditional tales, as well as the ways in which this heritage can be transmitted to new readers without simplifying or diluting its complexity.<\/p>\n

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A Way of Understanding Folklore<\/h2>\n

Through this project, I want to help make the richness of oral tradition tangible and show that folklore is neither a form of escapism nor a dusty relic of the past to be viewed with condescension. Narrative folklore is a living, rich and powerful form of expression. It continues to change and remains with us even when we no longer recognise it or believe it to have been lost. It emerges in the most unexpected forms.<\/p>\n

Folktales constitute an immense archive of human experience, passed down from generation to generation through thousands of different voices, each bearing the imprint of a particular life: men and women, children and the elderly, people from every historical period and every continent\u2014people both distant from us and close to home, profoundly different from us and, at the same time, deeply alike.<\/p>\n

This heritage does not speak only of fantastic beings and marvellous worlds. It also encompasses realistic, ironic, satirical, cruel, disturbing, tragic and everyday narratives. Across these stories, the boundaries between fantasy and reality may become porous, but they all speak of what we are through an immense range of shared emotions: fear, desire, violence, humour, love, loss, death and hope. Many of them were not originally intended to be read or studied, but to be told, heard and experienced.<\/p>\n

Despite differences of time, place and culture, tales show us that, in the end, people are not so different from one another. We share emotions and pass through the same stages of life, from the cradle to the grave. Through tales, we can even encounter experiences that we have not yet lived through, but that may one day become part of our own lives.<\/p>\n

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My work therefore begins with a simple idea: traditional tales are not fantasies detached from reality, but narratives through which human communities have preserved, interpreted and transmitted their experiences, perceptions and knowledge over time. Oral tradition is not a universe separate from the world, but a broad, plural and contradictory reflection of human life, woven by all those who came before us.<\/p>\n

I am convinced that, by listening to these voices, we can rediscover ourselves and recover our sense of wonder at the world around us. By telling and sharing these tales, we draw closer to others and to ourselves: we experience what it means to be human.<\/p>\n

In an age marked by dehumanisation, loneliness and the accelerating pace of contemporary life, preserving and transmitting this heritage is more necessary than ever.<\/p>\n

Contact<\/h2>\n

For publishing proposals, interviews, lectures, events, collaborations or other professional enquiries, you can write to me at llegendarium@llegendarium.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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