How To Use Folklore In A Sentence

They also enjoyed the tales given by Michael on the history and folklore of the area and learned a great deal about the wild herbs and flowers growing there.
The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of Norman folklore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Mathieson's legacy to folklore included not only his own extensive oral repertoire of folksong but a manuscript collection of 545 songs written down in 3 huge ledgers as he heard them through the years, beginning as a schoolboy and continuing in the bothies, chaulmers and farm kitchens where he feed as a farm servant. Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
And wrote the history and the folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on

Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
Steeped in tradition, Kilgarvan is world-renowned for its rich folklore and its many scribes, songwriters and storytellers.
The folklore of the ancient Dogon tribe of West Africa dates back thousands of years and speaks of the star Sirius B, which was invisible to the naked eye. Supernatural - Paranormal, ESP, Occult
Long before its formal recognition in 1943, the concept of autism appeared in folklore.
In the far right corner there was a bookshelf stuffed to the brim with books on history and folklore and legends.
His life story was already entering the annals of tabloid folklore. Times, Sunday Times
It consists of a systematic survey of the lake monster theme in the legends and popular folklore of Québec.
These days children do not have grandparents telling them folklore and stories from epics.
Here your backdrop is an ultimately idyllic secondary world reconstructed from our myth, folklore and fable (childhood and the past idealised). Of Genres and Sub-Genres
Both had an interest in Bulgarian folklore and noticed on their travels that this was shared by people in many other parts of the world.
Most of the time these sorts of ideas turn out to be football fan folklore. Times, Sunday Times
He also had a great attachment to the folklore and cultural traditions of the general Irishtown area.
In folklore the snake is often a symbol of evil.
Its well-referenced contents will provide a reservoir of information for scholars of folklore, religion and history of plant use.
The Spanish Pyrenees with their imposing peaks and delightful valleys are rich in traditional values and folklore.
It probably hit a raw nerve in a country tentatively forging an independent identity and sensitive about its folklore. Times, Sunday Times
His ingeniously plotted stories, some of which drew on themes from English and Scandinavian folklore, typically portrayed safe and ordered worlds invaded by terrifying agents of unappeasable supernatural malice.
She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
How did pleasant weather folklore turn into witches, ghouls and pumpkins? Times, Sunday Times
The album's tracks are a contemporary interpretation of Bulgarian folklore and Orthodox music.
The Celt's priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore.
And wrote the history and the folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Folklore gets its due in intriguing descriptions of the Navajo Indians’ ‘coyote people,’ and even Dracula makes a guest appearance as one of the most popular shape-shifters ever.
In the reviews of Studia Fennica Folkloristica no.s 2 and 3 in the 1999 issue of Folklore, the Finnish word runo was misprinted as rung.
Its hero bravely struggles before rescuing his wife as in the Odyssey; he is like a Moses and a looked-for savior from the Bible and black folklore.
Myth, folklore and inaccuracy cloud this event, yet it still has the potency to cause controversy.
This region is steeped in folklore and tradition.
Now, more than two decades on, the Blues boss is desperate to get his hands on the old pot once again and he will be stressing to his players about the opportunity they have of going down in folklore.
one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
The taniwha is a mythical protector with a powerful role in Maori folklore, but get it angry and you're in trouble, Mr Wilcox said. The Australian | News |
This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.
In the United States, however, the field of folklore is relatively new.
Folklore also surrounds Belgium's traditional puppet theater, whose marionettes are based on characters from the tales of their particular cities.
In fact, all I knew about Celtic folklore consisted of one silly story about a leprechaun.
The chapter ends by providing numerous excerpts from historical legends and folklore that mention the robin.
Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures.
Probably the most famous creatures of Norwegian folklore are the trolls - large, powerful, grotesque beings.
Folklore says you can test a piece of fish for ciguatera by seeing if a silver coin placed on it turns black, or if a sweet potato boiled with it changes color.
According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
Folklore has it that several siddhas and athmas had graced these mountains centuries ago.
The first concerns social historians' attitudes towards the folklore corpus.
Here we list the other teams that wrote themselves into football folklore. The Sun
He was 78 and one of the last of a breed of underworld figures who became a figure of criminal folklore in his own lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
According to JewishVirtualLibrary.org and substantiated by 'The Blood libel legend: a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore,' a 1991 book by Alan Dundes, an influential Roman Catholic magazine titled 'Civilta Cattolica' in 1881 revived the blood libel accusation, going on to write a series of articles forwarding the fraudulent allegation. Blood Libel Claim By Sarah Palin Causes Controversy
One final matter is worth mentioning, and this is the acid comments about folklore and folklorists in Alice's diaries.
Zalts was someone of varied interests and during the 1920s, not only did he publish on mechanical calculators, statistics and nomography (graphic representation of data), but he also published on folklore, education, and philosophy.
An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore.
As a long time fan of contemporary folklore, I thought it might be interesting to track this particular meme, so I used a popular search engine feature in which I registered a particular string (the word sunspot, in this case), and every day it sent me a summary of every new use of this word found on Web sites, in blogs, Usenet newsgroups and newspapers, along with links to these articles. ARRL Amateur Radio News
The great age of exploration in the 1500s witnessed the creation of its own folklore: sea serpents, unicorns and unipeds, the Fountain of Youth and the Seven Cities of Cibola.
Phinney demonstrated that folklore was a legitimate academic field of study.
An annotated bibliography of his writings on Cornish folklore is also presented.
Munfla has gone on to become one of the largest archives of recorded sound in Canada, with major holdings in folklore, folklife, oral history, and popular culture.
They are also a fruit steeped in history and folklore. Times, Sunday Times
It's a city of folklore and football and I am proud to be a part of it. The Sun
The world, as the Indian boy knows it from fairy tale and folklore, has seven seas and thirteen rivers. Tr.
There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric.
Narratives in the Bible and Native American folklore are prime examples.
The fifth route is for Xishuangbanna tropical rain forest and Dai ethnic folklore.
The present author reserves the term folklore for application to those unappropriated scraps of popular song, story, myth, and superstition that have drifted down the stream of antiquity and that reach us in the scrap-bag of popular memory, often bearing in their battered forms the evidence of long use. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Rather than being an ordinary ornithology textbook, this tome will delve into, among other things, folklore, superstition, social history, poetry, art, gastronomy, and linguistics.
A wider view of Satanism is closer to traditional Devil worship, but with a more contemporary understanding of magic, physics, folklore, theology, and human nature. Archive 2010-02-01
A "duppy" in Jamaican folklore is a spirit creature, usually with bad intent. Archive 2007-02-01
The children were fascinated as she laced her stories with a fascinating mix of humour, folklore and common sense.
Named after the African baobab tree, Vocal Baobab is one of the busiest and most popular folklore troupes in Havana, Cuba.
In folklore, they are ugly monsters from Scandinavian legend who live alone and prey on the weak. The Sun
According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
Her books are often based on folklore and fairy-tales.
Their place in football folklore rests upon the shock that a club should so abruptly leave their place upon the national stage in mid-season. Times, Sunday Times
In American folklore, however, the same activity is associated with modern Greeks.
One of the little known biblical figures who has attracted contemporary Jewish women writers is Lilith, who in Jewish folklore and rabbinic commentary is described as Adam's first wife, prior to Eve.
Traditional folklore refers to this as the ‘Old Moon in the New Moon's arms ’, a phenomenon created by earthshine - the reflection of light from the Earth back onto the surface of the Moon.
Riddles play an important part in Creole folklore.
Often an account of the supernatural folklore of a region is no more than a list of ghosts supposed to haunt the area, followed by a tellable tale or two.
Because the Hmong never had their own independent country, she said they've always felt a sense of impermanency, and a very strong image in their folklore is that of an orphan boy. U.S. Hmong communities mourn general's death
They provided indispensable services and became the subject of popular folklore and mythology.
But that piece of filming became part of family folklore, as my parents were convinced it had been edited to make its subject appear shy and tongue-tied, to fit their own preconceptions about country people.
Facial make-up, mehendi and impressive costumes enhance the expressive powers of classical dancers, as they unravel a tale of folklore and mythology to the accompaniment of sitar, flute, harmonium, tabla and tambura.
Chile's rich store of folklore, sayings, and supernatural beliefs is derived from its European and Indian past, as well as its relation to the mountains and the ocean.
It probably hit a raw nerve in a country tentatively forging an independent identity and sensitive about its folklore. Times, Sunday Times
The official figure was fifteen rebels dead, but later local folklore had it as high as seventy.
He also gives a reference to an article in the December 1937 edition of Sout hern Folklore Quarterly: Chapman Delia (5)
According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
Its excellence is a vivid demonstration of the healthy condition of the Folklore Society, and the remarkable progress of the discipline in England.
He avoids obvious statements in his movies, which share a hypnotic, nonlinear quality as well as an interest in Thai folklore and beliefs. Asia in Cannes
Tales of a half-ape, half-man-like creature in the rainforest are part of the folklore of tribespeople on Sumatra in Indonesia but, despite many sightings by locals and Western scientists, its existence has never been proved.
And wrote the history and the folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Ancient Micmac folklore suggested that the extraordinarily high tides in the Bay of Fundy were caused by a mighty whale that splashed its tail into the water with such a force that the water continues to slosh back and forth from the impact, even to this day. Atlantic Ocean
This has given rise to fears whether the hillock, with many folklores about it, would soon vanish from Muttara.
Within folklore it is always the first theme, that of restoration, which occurs.
Like other Central Asian peoples, the Turkmens have a rich folklore tradition of epic stories, tales, and lyric poems.
The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town to collect local folklore.
This collection of Indian folklore, retold for younger readers ‘of all ages’, includes many stories from the Jataka, a Buddhist compilation of fables.
Both have collected folklore from Bab for the past three decades.
This subtly points to our own construction of people as demons or our internalisation of demonologies without paying heed to the subterranean layers of history and folklore.
There is another piece of folklore which says that learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older. The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
‘The ability of some people to see the colored auras of others has held an important place in folklore and mysticism throughout the ages,’ said Ward.
Anne has been collecting stories and information from old people for the folklore collection.
Searching out the shards of history found in archaeological sites, newspapers, household goods, clothing, personal mementos, folklore, songs, cultural rituals, and buildings, “Ancestors” reveals the secret history of those who were absented from the public history. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods.
There is a grain of truth in all folklore and legend.
Folklore has always promoted the aphrodisiac and stomachic properties of vanilla, but it seems that science has made vanilla's benefits more tangible. The Aromatic Allure of Tahitian Vanilla
Folklore described Watson as "a powerful singer and a tremendously influential picker who virtually invented the art of playing mountain fiddle tunes on the flattop guitar."
In Chinese folklore the bat is an emblem of good fortune.
Folklore and religious places are key elements in artist Sunil's works.
His articles on folklore, art, mythology and short stories for children have been widely published.
My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folklore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This was supposed to be Flintoff's match, but no one, clearly, had told Stuart Broad, who bowled throughout the afternoon session, taking five for 37 in 12 overs of superb swing and cut that destroyed the cream of Australian batsmanship, confirmed his position as the heir to Fred's throne and his place in Ashes folklore. Broad and Swann Force Australia Collapse
The study confirms some long-standing folklore about the acuity of one of North America's most familiar birds—and offers new insight into how some wild animals may cope with living alongside people.
It's a myth that seems to have been passed by anecdote and folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the tales are clearly Buddhist in origin, some are taken from earlier folklore.
Their place in football folklore rests upon the shock that a club should so abruptly leave their place upon the national stage in mid-season. Times, Sunday Times
The soul, the mind, moral entities, mental functions, have always, in literature as well as in the arts and folklore, been personified in human or animal form.
In Chinese folklore the bat is an emblem of good fortune.
She is enamoured of Irish folklore and landscape.
They are also a fruit steeped in history and folklore. Times, Sunday Times
In folklore, a full moon is associated with insanity - hence the word lunacy - werewolves and all manner of unpleasant happenings. BBC News - Home
Two popular supernatural figures in Iraqi folklore are the Tanttel and the Su'luwwa.
I want to start a section on my site about African Folklore, tokoloshes and stuff like that.
Rather than oppose it, they shrewdly assimilated the stories into the folklore of Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
Can you tell me anything about this supposed folklore hero that's risen from the dead to lead them to independence?
The marsh is a mysterious and murky zone where the intricacies of the human mind and personal psychologies are made manifest in a range of characters drawn, in part, from extant folklore and myth, but primarily from the waking dream of the marsh itself. Bill Bush: When the World Was Small and Man Knew His Place in It: This Artweek.LA (May 30 - June 5)
Probably the most well-known twentieth-century trickster, Shine is an epic figure in African American folklore.
Name in club folklore thanks to his happy knack of scoring vital goals in the run-in. The Sun
This is more like the backwoods America of popular folklore, all tumbledown shacks and pick - up trucks.
Japanese folklore is wonderfully rich, and Mizuki is considered a self-taught expert on the subject. Ed’s NYAF Convention Report » Manga Worth Reading
In folklore, pixies play cheeky tricks on humans; they are annoying perhaps, but ultimately harmless.
Much like this post, the music on this album is also a real mixed bag (i.e. polka, funeral march, folklore fantasy, anthemic, marching, folk, rock) ... easy listening while you learn more about all things Conan! Archive 2010-06-01
In Romanian folklore it was thought that a bat, insect or other flying creature that passed over a corpse, could turn it into a revenant (a corpse that returns from the grave).
Many important texts were written in Church Slavonic and the more vernacular Old Russian, including historical chronicles, epic poems, folklore, and liturgical and legal works.
Cultural heroes are important figures in the folklore of Polynesian societies.
It isn't recorded as 'Arthurian' till the 16th century, but it remained in the Britosphere well after the Arthurian tradition was established, so local folklore had something to hang its hat on, so to speak. A Bishop of Chester?
It was not widely supported when it began, but because of the way its leaders were treated, it has passed into Irish folklore.
My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folklore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of Arabian nights. English
Feminist folklore theory shows that women's practices are resistant as well as acquiescent, contingent as well as contextual.
Her music is a reflection of her multicultural childhood in Mexico and her studies in anthropology in Minnesota, with its combination of Mexican folklore, boleros, borderland rancheras, opera, and American jazz and blues.
And I mean from the bible character to the Mesopotamian myths, Jewish lore, demon lits, and other folklore. The Other Side of Immortality « Write Anything
Their place in football folklore rests upon the shock that a club should so abruptly leave their place upon the national stage in mid-season. Times, Sunday Times
Save for a brief quotation from a dictionary of folklore, I have so far neglected Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.
And according to Medieval Folklore, an early Syrian [bestiary] is quite explicit: The unicorn approaches the virgin, 'throwing himself upon her. Archive 2007-10-01
The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics.
The Tanuki in folklore is a shapeshifter, one of the creatures known as 'henge' in Japan. IGN Complete
According to Galia Dicheva, spokesperson for the royal family, the bride will stick to the Bulgarian traditional-style gown with some folklore motifs on her dress.
Hurston's ethnography of African American folklore and folkways was published in 1935.
A legendary British monarch, Arthur has appeared in folklore through the ages and has influenced culture, art, and even military in countless ways. 100 Greatest Fictional Characters #25-21 | Fandomania
The pontianak and the langsuir, from Malaysian and Indonesian folklore. Non-European Vampire Linkgasm
There isn't an exhaustive amount of authoritative or reliable information about his life, and there is an exhaustive amount of confusing folklore.
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is padded like an insecure debutante: sales pitches for Oxford Ancestors, descriptions of the scenery of the Scottish isles, praise for the fine organization of British blood drives, reminiscences of professional colleagues, accounts of local folklore, even a recommendation for a particularly fine ice cream parlor in Lampeter, Wales. Britain
This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language.
Local folklore has it that black cockies appear before rain.
Giant cephalopods such as squid and octopuses are also a great source of sea-monster folklore.
And writer brings the community of urban folklore tourism out first.
On his return to Greece he resumed his work as Editor at the Archives of Folklore.
The horn of the goat that suckled Zeus, which broke off and became filled with fruit. In folklore, it became full of whatever its owner desired.
At each site of historical interest he will guide visitors through local folklore and legend, recreating the era thousands of years ago when wild boar and wolves roamed the moors.
Dazzling feats from the turbo-charged toes of Michael Owen have yielded many unforgettable moments in football folklore.
According to German folklore, on April 30th witches fly their broomsticks to the mountains for a heathen festival, coinciding with the night the ancient deities conceived spring.
There is another piece of folklore which says that learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older. The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems.
The beauty of Thai beaches is the stuff of folklore: pristine, clean and untouched.
Galician folklore includes many charms and rituals related to the different stages and events of the life cycle.
The Maid of the Mist, in addition to having ties with local native folklore, is the tugboat that takes tourists down about as close to the bottom of Niagara Falls as anyone would ever want to go. Writing Question: Titles
From the perspective of folklore, sociology and cultural anthropology, festival is regarded as a folk record and interpretation of cultural elements and the actual image of the abstract history.
Probably they need to get something out of their system (that's the folklore, anyway) and grass for some reason is a non-poisonous emetic.
Here he encouraged students to collect folklore from their home communities and established an archive for the material.
Most of the time these sorts of ideas turn out to be football fan folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Here we list the other teams that wrote themselves into football folklore. The Sun
How did pleasant weather folklore turn into witches, ghouls and pumpkins? Times, Sunday Times
In Jewish folklore, an artificially created human being supernaturally endowed with life.
According to folklore, the number 10 is the dainty creator, beloved of the Welsh, who still adore the idea of the tiny string-puller, making giants move to his tune. Rob Andrew: rugby's Teflon Don under siege | Observer profile
Folklore gets its due in intriguing descriptions of the Navajo Indians’ ‘coyote people,’ and even Dracula makes a guest appearance as one of the most popular shape-shifters ever.
According to Buddhist folklore, the Buddha-to-be was born as Prince Vessandorn, a generous man who gave freely to the people.
In Romanian folklore it was thought that a bat, insect or other flying creature that passed over a corpse, could turn it into a revenant (a corpse that returns from the grave).
Maori folklore focuses on oppositions between pairs, such as earth and sky, life and death, and male and female.
Our folklore and arts and crafts reflect our love and reverence for the animal world.
October's matanza has been called a manifestation of Mixteca folklore syncretized in religious observance, cuisine and dance. A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
His concerts were a mix of philosophy and folklore, spoken-word poems and music reflecting his roots in the gaucho culture of rural Argentina. Folk Singer Facundo Cabral Killed in Guatemala
Such hagiographic folklore will be handed down through generations. Times, Sunday Times
According to German folklore, all humans, birds, and beasts have a spirit double, invisible but identical to the living individual.
In folklore, the protectrix of Toulouse is La Reine Pedauque the Goose-foot Queen. The Templar Revelation
The NEA National Heritage Fellowships, another honor, are going to Ezequiel Torres, the Afro-Cuban bata drummer and drum builder; Gladys Kukana Grace, a Lauhala weaver; music and folklore scholar Judith McCulloh; Mike Rafferty, an Irish flute player; Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan, a proponent of Bharatanatyam, a southern Indian classical dance. Five Marsalis family members among artists to receive NEA 'honors' grants
The kids in the small club-style theatre lapped it up, but I was alienated by a wack folklore vibe - when does club dance lose its authentic edge and start to feel more like a museum display?
As a long time fan of contemporary folklore, I thought it might be interesting to track this particular meme, so I used a popular search engine feature in which I registered a particular string (the word sunspot, in this case), and every day it sent me a summary of every new use of this word found on web sites, in blogs, Usenet newsgroups, and newspapers, along with links to these articles. EHam.net News
He also met some of the major folklore and folklife Scandinavian scholars of the day including C. W. von Sydow and Sigurd Erixon.
This show focuses on the folklore and myths around fossils. Times, Sunday Times
His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals.
This hymn is now part of FA Cup folklore, and it's BECAUSE Cardiff City were there ..... isnt that ENOUGH reason to be proud? Shall we sing a song for you?
Biological folklore had it that women's physical and mental well-being could be guaranteed only through marriage and motherhood.
There is another piece of folklore which says that learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older. The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
Skirts, overcoats, cardigans and vests were made predominantly from cotton and linen, many embroidered with folklore emblems.
Every culture has its own body of folklore, myths, legends, song, poetry, stories, and parables.
Nepalese folklore holds that men who marry a former kumari will die young, and so many girls remain unmarried and face a life of hardship. Archive 2008-10-01
Her Artwork is informed by an interest in the folklore traditions associated with landscape.
This has since become part of punk folklore. Times, Sunday Times
Ecuadorian folklore

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