Quotes About Folklore

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

I think - since I was about 7 years old - that was when I was first introduced to the comics called 'Amar Chitra Katha' that are published in India. They're not about a superhero, but they encompass all the stories of India, the folklore, the mythology, everything. But most of these stories are about Indian historical figures.

If the Americans have Superman, we have Panday.

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

Oh, Frith in a barn! What a business!

El-arairah is a trickster," said Buckthorn. "And rabbits will always need tricks.

It was warm praise and cheered him. What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes

Alan Lomax recordings of the prisoners singing

Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.

When the Fair Folk gave you an instruction, you followed it, whether it suited you or not. That was just the way it was.

The world's full of strange things. Stuff that doesn't make sense until you really think about it. Happenings like the ones in the old tales.

Your kind have forgotten the old ways," says Eirne. "You have forgotten the importance of the tales, the wisdom of the past, the strength that rises from tree and stone and stream, the bond between one world and the other.

Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual.

It was not the time to recall all those really horrifying nursery stories she'd read, Bluebeard, Babes in the Wood, Little Red Riding Hood. Why is it that children's stories are so filled with monsters like wolves and witches who eat children, and men who kill their wives? And to think, that people actually sat and told their children such things.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.