Quotes About Folklore

The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

"For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

In medieval times there was great anxiety over the belief that witches liked to steal penises and keep them as pets.

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Russian's claim the banya as their first doctor, vodka being the second and raw garlic the third.

Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

In Welsh tradition, a plate was put on the coffin with bread and salt, and a local professional sin eater arrived to eat the salt.

And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the folklore of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Kalevala, whereas

Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming.

Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain?

Proud Maisie Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. 'Tell me, thou bonny bird, When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' 'Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. 'The glowworm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.

Superstitions add texture to life.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.

Weatherborne folk-memories whistle down chimneys, fell fences, tear tiles from roofs, and bang at back doors. The wild is out there, just outside. We know, just as all of our ancestors knew, the power and the might of nature beyond the confines of our man-made world.

Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies"—unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.