Quotes About Folklore

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

A valuable possession of a people is its first heroic epic.

You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to an audience. It's a chance to empathize, reflect, and learn, so I really want to understand before I sign onto a project: 'What's the potential of this thing? What are we seeing and learning? What are we empathizing to?'

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie.

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History a distillation of rumor.

History, a distillation of rumour.

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.'

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

In Irish folklore," she read, "you're supposed to be a descendent of the Dobhar-chú. And what the hell is that?" She did another search. "Half dog, half otter or fish?

The first question, of course, is whether there ever was such a creature as Man. At the moment, in the absence of positive evidence, the sober consensus must be that there was not, that Man, as presented in the legend, is a figment of folklore invention. Man may have risen in the early days of Doggish culture as an imaginary being, a sort of racial god, on which the Dogs might call for help, to which they might retire for comfort.

Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

The Italians have that wonderful verb, raccontare , that means to tell a story.

John and Alan Lomax claimed alternately that "Stack Lee ... was the son of the Lee family of Memphis who owned a large line of steamers that ran up and down the Mississippi" and that the name Stack Lee came from the riverboat of that name.'-

With one finger he tips it from the shelf. The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Japanese Folktale. He's never seen this particular book before, but as soon as he sees the cover he knows it's the same story. A Japanese folktale

If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.

In Westphalia, Germany, little girls set a lady-bird on the end of their forefinger and ask it in rhyme when they will be married; in one year? two years? three years? etc.; and they grow very impatient if the insect lets them count too high before it flies away.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.