Quotes About Folklore

He could no more lie than any of the Folk, but stories were the closest thing to lies the Folk could tell.

Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth.

You hate the Folk." Taryn's eyes flash as she spins her sword in an elegant strike. "You never cared about Locke. He was just another thing to take from Cardan.

Talk to me," I say. "Tell me another fairy tale. Tell me something.

It is said that faerie children are not like mortal children. They need little in the way of love. They need not be tucked in at night, but may sleep just as happily in a cold corner of a ballroom, curled up in a tablecloth. They need not be fed; they are just as happy lapping up dew and skimming bread and cream from the kitchens. They need not be comforted, since they seldom weep. But if faerie children need little love, faerie princes require some counsel.

The Folk do not rot the way mortals do. Sometimes their bodies grow over with lichen or bloom with mushrooms. I've heard stories about battlefields turning in to green hills.

When it was his turn to talk, he told stories. He told me ones I knew, old stories, and he told me old-sounding ones I had never heard.

There are hobs born with lined faces like tiny, hairless cats and smooth-limbed nixies whose true age shows only in their ancient eyes.

A hob played a lute strung with another reveler's hair.

Goblins and grigs, pixies and elves all cavort in endless intertwined circle dances. Honey wine flows freely from horns, and tables are stacked with ripe cherries, gooseberries, pomegranates, and plums.

Then the glaistig tells the freckled man to gather leaves. For each one in his pile, he'll get a crisp twenty-dollar billl in its place. He'll have three days to spend the money before it disappears.

Then the glaistig tells the freckled man to gather leaves. For each one in his pile, he'll get a crisp twenty-dollar bill in its place. He'll have three days to spend the money before it disappears.

ByÅ' raz sobie chÅ'opiec o podÅ'ym sercu - zacz??a. - Nie to nie tak byÅ'o - przerwaÅ' jej Cardan. - Inaczej zaczynaÅ'a siÄ™ ta ba??. Przecie? miaÅ' kÄ…Å›liwy jÄ™zyk. - ChÅ'opcy siÄ™ zmieniajÄ…. - powiedziaÅ'a. - BaÅ›nie te?. " ~Holly Black, ''Dlaczego król elfów nie znosiÅ' baÅ›ni

Bez w?tpienia elfowie odrobili lekcj? ju? dawno temu. Nie musz? mami? ludzi, bo ludzie sami si? mami?.

Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died.

Yaga de Winter was her own private joke; the old country loved literature a little too well.

Dictionary of Native American Mythology

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.

Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don't even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground.

India is full of varied cultures that have introduced different kinds of folk tunes to us.