Quotes About Folklore

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

There were the usual deaths, yes, those to be expected, people who started off celebrating and ended up killing each other, uncinematic deaths, deaths from the realm of folklore, not modernity: deaths that didn't scare anybody.

Now the harpist and bard had taken their places under the roof of the three-sided booley house, and guests were wandering from the table to hear them play and sing.

Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

They'll give you the ein hora—the evil eye.

It seems that such notions were the product of folklore, vivid dreams, and sheer confabulation—and confirmed by confessions elicited under the most gruesome torture

Thousand and One Nights.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

Let me tell you something. The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Collections of gnomes, adages, sayings, and parables have been made from times immemorial in all countries and in all languages possessing some kind of literature.

And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.

I love folklore and all festering superstitions.