As regards the folklore of these islands, the leading authority is the Observations on Popular Antiquities, by John Brand, subsequently edited by Sir H.
But it also welcomes from the general public notes and queries on British and foreignfolklore and beliefs.
Burne, an ex-president of the society and author of a valuable book on the folklore of Shropshire, with a view to the compilation on the basis of Brand's work of a cyclopedia of British folklore.
Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-gryf--the horror place of the folklore of her race.
Various causes united to make them the natural carriers offolklore from the East to the West, and from the West back again to the East.
Helwich's book seems to have escaped the attention of all who have dealt on the Maasebuch, Steinschneider included; and yet without it a study of the Jewish folklore is very difficult, as the Maasebuch can hardly be procured.
Time and space are entirely annihilated in thefolklore of the Russian Jews.
Corresponding to the diffusion of folklore among the Jews, their store of popular beliefs, superstitions, and medicine is unlimited.
These chapbooks, embodying the folklore of past generations, were almost the first printed Judeo-German books, as they certainly were the most popular.
These Sippurim have no greatfolklore value, as they show too much the hand of the literary worker.
In the original Enkidu tale, the animal-man is looked upon as the type of a primitive savage, and the point of the tale is to illustrate in the naïve manner characteristic of folklore the evolution to the higher form of pastoral life.
In this same connection may be named other items of folklore related by Mr. Dyer.
The folklore of the plant is meagre, considering its wide distribution, but there are a number of curious superstitions connected with it.
In an Australian folklore story taken down from the lips of a native some sixty years ago by W.
In European folklore also the rabbit is regarded as something uncanny and half-supernatural, and even in far-off Korea he is the central figure in the animal myths.
It seems almost superfluous to call attention to the European folklore version, the well-known story of the race between the Hare and the Tortoise.
Although they are said to have come originally from the whites, the Cherokee have no tradition of a time when they did not know them; there seems, however, to be no folklore connected with them.
Next to corn, the bean (tuya) is the most important food plant of the Cherokee and other southern Indians, with whom it is probably native, but there does not appear to be much special ceremony or folklore in connection with it.
There are names for one or two other varieties of lizard as well as for the alligator (tsula'ski), but no folklore in connection with them.
Cover the blood--The reincarnation of the slain animal from the drops of blood spilt upon the ground or from the bones is a regular part of Cherokee hunting belief, and the same idea occurs in the folklore of many tribes.
These little bits of Indian folklore were obtained from Swimmer, but are common tribal property.
Most of the strictly negro folklore has faded into the past.
Do you know that there are parts of Japan where folklore is still being made?
And folklore could not possibly be directed to such facts as these at a period when these relations were all matters of fact and familiar to every child.
There is so much done now to preserve what is still Bushmen folklore that I feel this small volume is indeed only a small addition to the folklore world.
They are all South-African folklore tales and mainly from the Bushmen.
Although the Koran and other authorities, as already stated, have associated the Jinn with etherial fire, Arabic folklore is nearer the meaning of the word in assigning the name to all demons.
It has now taken its place in German folklore that Frederick owed his greatness to a familiar kept near him in the form of a basilisk.
And since the Devas are the strongest, it is not wonderful that it should have passed into the folklore of the whole Aryan world that the evil host are for ever seeking to recover by cunning the Amrita.
The discovery is the more interesting because it has always been a part of the christian folklore of that region that, when a storm with lightning occurs, it is 'Elias in his chariot of fire.
The devil, as heir of death-demons, appears in all European folklore as a hater of salt.
The accent of this fable has been transmitted to some variants of the folklore of swans.
These complex legends are reflected in Northern folklore also.
But nowhere in Indian legend or folklore do we find any special dishonour put upon woman such as is described in the Hebrew story.
Since it is contrary to all orthodox folklore that the Devil should be so friendly with water, the name must be regarded as a modern substitute for the earlier Rhone demon.
The anarchical atmosphere of the region is reflected in the abnormal structures ascribed to the many devils with whose traits Jewish and Arabic folklore is familiar, and which are too numerous to be described here.
The story sounds like it came from the Arkansas folklore collection or from someone who contributed it to that collection.
Henderson, William, Notes on the Folklore of the North Counties, 1879.
In this kind of folklore the oral and the written literature of Japan is rich to a degree that would require a large book to exemplify.
But in Japanese folklore the Ma have a part much resembling that occupied in Western popular superstition by goblins and fairies.
Into a volume of very moderate dimensions, and of extremely moderate price, Mr. Yeats has collected together the most characteristic of our Irish folklore stories, grouping them together according to subject.
All lovers of fairy tales andfolklore should get this little book.
These views are confirmed by the traditions andfolklore still current amongst the "Lacustrians," as the great nations may be called, who are now grouped round about the shores of Lakes Victoria and Albert Nyanza.
The local reports or traditions of primitive peoples, either extinct or still surviving in the interior, belong rather to the sphere of Malagasy folklore than to that of ethnological research.
Kwataka eating an animal] According to modern folklore there once lived in the sky a winged being called Kwataka, or Man-eagle, who sorely troubled the ancients.
The epic of our British Arthur, the French chansons de gestes, are indebted almost as much tofolklore as to the imagination of the singers who first gave them literary shape.
Students of folklore have done a great deal of indexing and cataloguing and have produced works that can only be separated from bibliographies with difficulty.
I cannot understand why the authors chose to omit John Meier's enormous bibliography of German folklore in Hermann Paul, ed.
By right of precedence, among the legends of the Rhine which possess folklore characteristics is the wonderful legend of the Lorelei, a word derived from the old High German lur, to lurk, and lai, a rock.
The folklore and romance elements in Rhine legend have been carefully examined, and the best poetic material upon the storied river has been critically collected and reviewed.
It is the modern version of the legend we give here, in contradistinction to that given in the chapter on the Folklore and Literature of the Rhine (see pp.
But this is not so as regards all of them, and it will be interesting to look into the character of those which present folklore affinities, whilst leaving the consideration of their romantic aspect for a later portion of this chapter.
In the folkloreof European countries goblindom is peopled by gods and nature-spirits of an earlier heathendom.
They had the great advantage over the French of a living native folklore and faery lore.
For the sinking of Chiang Shui and other examples, see Denny's Folklore of China, pp.
For Chinese transformation legends, see Denny's Folkloreof China, pp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folklore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: charm; custom; folklore; legend; lore; myth; mythology; mythos; spell; tradition; traditionalism
