Quotes About Folklore

Her legend, which would sprout a thousand hallucinations, had been born in our midst – born of stories and rumours which, in time, would become some of the most extravagant realities of our lives.

In the future, hip-hop is going to be called American folklore.

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.

We do see him," Amah said. "You know, the Mountain Spirit is also called the Old Man of the Moon. So you see him every time you look at the moon.

TALES OF SOUTHERN WATERS

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

The music of birds. I guess everything comes from that, the dances of simple country folk, the old songs that both cure and trouble the hearts of listeners.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

The women in the kitchen sang: Sarampión toca la puerta. Viruela dice: ¿Quién es? Y Escarlatina contesta: ¡Aquí estamos los tres! The cook would sometimes shout a little madly, "Sing it again!" And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who's there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

Sometimes legends can be true.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

folk ballad about a woman named Daisy who is reincarnated as a medical student whose gross anatomy cadaver turns out to be himself in a former life, i.e., Daisy.

C'era una volta uno spirito malvagio dalle sembianze di una gigantesca volpe a nove code. Con il solo movimento delle sue code, la volpe poteva provocare frane e maremoti. Per far fronte a quello spirito, la gente invocò l'aiuto dei ninja. Uno solo di quei ninja, a costo della propria vita, riuscì a imprigionare lo spirito. Quel ninja era il Quarto Hokage.

For a minute the Sun came out, while it was snowing. People say that means the devil is beating his wife.

I will kill you, and I shall do so in such a way, this world will cease its wars. The world shall be unified in its mourning, not because it misses you, but because of the atrocities which I, alone, will have wrought upon your mangled corpse. And even after the cannons fall silent, I will never be caught. New monsters will be born into folklore to explain what I have done to you.

but small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.

folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme.

Though it isn't obvious from the bowdlerized versions in Walt Disney , the tales are filled with murder,infanticide,cannibalism, mutilation, and sexual abuse - grimm fairy tales indeed.

In fact, these reference works, with their careful attention to history, literature, and actual usage, are the most adamant debunkers of grammatical nonsense. (This is less true of style sheets drawn up by newspapers and professional societies, and of manuals written by amateurs such as critics and journalists, which tend to mindlessly reproduce the folklore of previous guides.)

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Blackstrap molasses has a long and storied tradition as a health food and a remedy for all sorts of ailments. One of the most popular legends

La vampirología es un conocimiento extenso. Admirable si se tiene en cuenta que es el estudio de algo que no existe. Además de ser extenso, está muy extendido: la gente común y corriente sabe más de los vampiros que de los otomíes, por ejemplo.

mouth," says Jack, as sharp as a needle.