I call it myself the stone of the thousand and one lies, for I assure you that I had to invent a cycle of folk-lore before the Rajah who owned it would consent to sell the thing.
Now I am grown weather-wise With the lore of winds and skies.
The tang of salt is in its veins, The freshness of the spray God give you love and lore and strength, To give us such alway.
Chudleigh Knighton { Henderson's Folk-lore of the Northern { Counties of England.
Oranges and lemons at Bocking, Essex, is an abbreviated variant of the rhyme printed by Halliwell (Folk-lore Record, iii.
Mrs. Murray-Aynsley in a paper on the secular and religious dances in Asia and Africa (Folk-lore Journal, vol.
The story of the pied piper of Hamelin probably commemorates a procession similar to the Echternach (see Folk-lore Journal, vol.
Thus those skilled in Vedanta lore tell us-- "As all the extended world of dreams is only the development of illusion in me, so all this extended waking world is a development of illusion likewise.
The introduction contains a most interesting disquisition on the migrations of these fables, tracing their reappearance in the various groups of folk-lore legends.
They are probably the nearest representatives of the original Aryan stories from which sprang the folk-lore of Europe as well as India.
A volume which may be taken as a fair illustration alike of the religions and moral sentiments and of the legendary lore of the best Sanskrit writers.
Slippers and shoes are ancient symbols of appropriation, and as such figure in folk-lore and at weddings in many countries to this day.
The names of these were now connected with that of St Ursula[756], and the legend of St Ursula became the centre of many floating traditions, and has proportionately attracted the attention of the hagiologist and the folk-lore student.
In conclusion it seems well to pause and look back over the ground traversed, to take in at a glance what Catholic tradition, convent-life and saint-lore have done for women in the past.
Throughout Germany they frequently appear in folk-lore and saga, besides being venerated in many instances as three women-saints of the Church.
On classic soil one comes across escaping life represented as a babe; in German folk-lore it is often a mouse or a toad.
Legendary lore has spun many webs about the religious settlements in the Rhine district including that of Hohenburg, and the majority of modern historians have taken no trouble to unravel them.
Henderson refers to these hauntings in his Folk-lore of Northern Counties.
With Bede in Northumbria, and Augustine in Kent, two great missionary scholars, the memories of ancient lore seem to be recalled.
The annals of legendary lore record that on the 3rd of May, A.
The essence of the little beast seemed concentrated in his lore paws.
The goose figures largely in the history, the legends, and the proverbial lore of our own and other lands.
The bells of Bow are amongst the best known in England, and figure in the legendary lore as well as in the business life of London.
Midsummer Eve has ever been famous as a time suitable for love divinations, and surely a few notes on love-lore cannot fail to find favour with our fair readers.
All lovers of ecclesiastical lore will find the volume instructive and suggestive, while the ordinary reader will be surprised to find that the Cross in the churchyard or by the roadside has so many meanings and significances.
It also abounds with illustrations of our old English authors, and it is likely to prove welcome not only to the Churchman, but to the student of folk-lore and of poetical literature.
For they had heard enough wood-lore to know that the bull-moose, with his extreme caution, is like a tantalizing phantom to hunters.
I am well versed in the lore of runes, and I read there long ago that he who knows no fear is Siegfried, the slayer of Fafnir.
Geirrod spent all of his time with the fisherman,[14] learning the lore of the sea and becoming very adept in the use of the spear as well as the humbler net and line.
I may mention the following works as more or less illustrating the Plant-lore of Shakespeare:-- 1.
With this beautiful description of the winter-life of hardy perennial plants, I may well close the "Plant-lore and Garden-craft of Shakespeare.
Much folk-lore has gathered round the Hazel tree and the Nuts.
The subject is so closely connected with the "Plant-lore of Shakespeare," that I add it as an Appendix.
Mr. Ellacombe, with a double enthusiasm for Shakespeare and for his garden, has produced a very readable and graceful volume on the Plant-Lore of Shakespeare.
It is not apparently a romantic plant, and yet there is no plant round which so much curious folk lore has gathered.
Here are several very pleasant pictures, and there is so much of historical and legendary loregathered round the Oaks of England that it is very tempting to dwell upon them.
There is, perhaps, no tree round which so much of contradictory folk-lore has gathered as the Elder tree.
Another point of interest in the Plant-lore of Shakespeare is the wide range of his observation.
The most primitive savage and the most highly developed Caucasian find mystic meanings, symbols, sentiments and, above all, beauty in jewels and precious stones; it is of this magic lore that the distinguished author tells us.
Uniform in style and size with "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones.
In past ages there has grown up a great literature upon the subject--books in every language from Icelandic to Siamese, from Sanskrit to Irish--the lore is as profound and interesting as one can imagine.
Notwithstanding which risk, many a passage is quoted here of ancient Herbal lore in the past tongues of Greece, Rome; and the Gauls.
But legendary lore teaches rather that the infant Bacchus was an object of vengeance to Juno, and that the nymphs of Nisa concealed him from her wrath, with trails of Ivy as he lay in his cradle.
This was her answer to the article in which all the folk-lore of Domremy, all the fairy tales, had been collected into a solemn statement of heresy.
And thus it is possible to draw the outline of a religious outlook on the world, into which the results of world-lore could well be fitted.
One great centre of interest, though by no means the only or even the chief one, lies in the special field of world-lore and theoretical interpretation comprised in the natural sciences.
Author of 'Plant Lore and Garden Craft of Shakespeare.
The Koran would almost seem to constitute their all of earthly lore and heavenly aspiration.
A profound acquaintance with literary lore is often associated with total ignorance of the actual world, of the laws that govern our moral and intellectual being, and with an incapacity to discern the Beautiful, the True, the Good.
If we don't put a finish to that sort of thing once and for all, even us men will be sitting around gathering our lore out of books 'stead of coon hunts.
Even seasoned hunters did not argue coon lore with Mun Mundee, but on an evening such as this it was impossible to think in prosaic terms.
How did one hand a coon hound, not to mention the mass of coon lore that Mellie had acquired during his sixty-seven years on earth, down to a girl child?
Here is profundity, inwardness, honesty, waywardness; here are the most touching accents of nature, and the most varied assortment of curious lore and grotesque fancies.
