Quotes About Folklore

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

Who answers when you knock on wood?

Cause what do groanhuffs know? All's they've done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em all mixed up, like.

Nenorocirile vin cu gramada, in timp ce norocul calatoreste intotdeauna signur, spuneau oamenii in vechime.

would achieve lasting notoriety, becoming a permanent part of our national folklore. His name was Alfred Packer

metamorphosed into a creature as evil as any mythical Hulder: "a woman

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

He drew witches, wolves, and ghosts; she sketched landscapes and cottages.

In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund of East Anglia by the appalling Ivar the Boneless, who according to some traditions brought a great Viking army to England in pursuit of revenge for the killing of his father, the semi-legendary Ragnar Lothbrok, executed by the king of Northumbria.

Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

I come from a family of storytellers.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a pub to 50 people with a guitar, you know.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers

Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.

He gave a good yell, for Baba Yaga at her best caused strong windows to crack and fall out of their frames. From Baba Yaga and the Sorcerer's son

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

A Welshman is always glad to add to his private store of tales.