His mother wasn't highly educated, but because she was superstitious, she introduced Andersen to folklore.
In Medieval folklore, the Ziphius, or "Water-Owl", was a monstrous nautical creature said to attack ships in the northern seas.
In the folklore of the British Isles, fairies are not the innocuous Tinkerbell creatures they are usually thought to be today.
Something that couldn't be misconstrued as folklore.
Fishermen's folklore, Dickens writes, says men and women cannot die while the tide is rising.
Take the lime tree - a native breed to Europe, they hold some pretty powerful sway in national folklore.
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).
Do you take into account Rottweiler folklore?
Like the notion of evil itself, they have ancient origins and appear in folklore and literature across the world.
Yet elaborate schemes of classification have been devised, notably by Swedish and Irish folklorists. But these systems do not lend themselves to a classification of American folklore because of differing concepts of the subject here and abroad.
Now let's hear from some folklore scholars to find out fun facts about Duanwu Festival.
For years, studies in China and Japan have shown that the folklore about tea does contain some truth — it does promote longer life.
The Devil bird, or Ulama, is a frightening horned bird of Sri Lankan folklore.
The paper demonstrates that folklore is the dyad consisting of characteristic elements of folklore (CEoF) and expression of folklore (EoF) by analyzing the creative principals of folklore.
Dutch folklore tells of nasty beings that would cut people's stomachs open during the winter, and if the stomachs contained the special pastries, they were immune to the sword.
I am interested in anything pertaining to folklore.
From the Shakespeare play "MacBeth" to the NBC show "Medium," spirits of the dead have long made an appearance in our culture and folklore.
But TCM's reputation has been blackened by uneven efficacy and harsh side effects, prompting critics to assail it as outmoded folklore.
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