Quotes About Folklore

From literature the African was excluded altogether. He was not supposed to have expressed any thought worth knowing. The philosophy in the African proverbs and in the rich folklore of that continent was ignored to give preference to that developed on the distant shores of the Mediterranean.

she says it's a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don't know why they do 'em." from the novella Christopher O'Connor's Romances

red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight more storytellers.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

A tale never loses in the telling.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

Cuervos sobre la llanura sembrada de muertos, como en las viejas baladas.

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

The telling room is, in Spanish, known as 'el contador.'

As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

There are many people and many tribes, but only so many stories.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.