Quotes About Folklore

Well, sir, you must know, as you didn't hear it afore, that there was a king, called King O'Toole, who was a fine old king in the old ancient times,

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

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.

WITCH, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.

Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

A bird in the house is a sign someone will die soon.

For humility and poverty, in themselves, the world has little liking and less respect. In the folk-lore of all races, despite the sentimentalization of abasement for dramatic effect, it is always power and grandeur that count in the end.

Possibly Gilman ought not to have studied so hard. Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of the Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension.

When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land, she said. Have you tried that? I was told a sheep's hock-bone bought a croft, a cow's an estate.

The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

and from that day, even till now, all the storks have been called Peter. The

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

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

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

Legends can live and breathe only on verbal terrain

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Al final, todas las preguntas infantiles sin respuesta deben transmitirse al pueblo y en él responderse. En ese primer ambiente nos encontramos por primera vez con los héroes y los fantasmas, los valores y las antipatías, y los calificamos.