diff --git a/src/tera.rs b/src/tera.rs
index bf29f6d8..81f9057b 100644
--- a/src/tera.rs
+++ b/src/tera.rs
@@ -132,7 +132,13 @@ impl Tera {
         // See https://github.com/Keats/tera/issues/574 for the Tera discussion
         // and https://github.com/Gilnaa/globwalk/issues/28 for the upstream issue.
         let (parent_dir, glob_end) = glob.split_at(glob.find('*').unwrap());
-        let parent_dir = std::fs::canonicalize(parent_dir)?;
+        let parent_dir = match std::fs::canonicalize(parent_dir) {
+            Ok(d) => d,
+            // If canonicalize fails, just abort it and resume with the given path.
+            // Consumers expect invalid globs to just return the empty set instead of failing.
+            // See https://github.com/Keats/tera/issues/819#issuecomment-1480392230
+            Err(_) => std::path::PathBuf::from(parent_dir),
+        };
         let dir = parent_dir.join(glob_end).into_os_string().into_string().unwrap();
 
         // We are parsing all the templates on instantiation
@@ -1222,9 +1228,10 @@ mod tests {
 
     // https://github.com/Keats/tera/issues/819
     #[test]
-    fn doesnt_panic_on_invalid_glob() {
+    fn empty_list_on_invalid_glob() {
         let tera = Tera::new("\\dev/null/*");
         println!("{:?}", tera);
-        assert!(tera.is_err());
+        assert!(tera.is_ok());
+        assert!(tera.unwrap().templates.is_empty());
     }
 }