Quotes About Folklore

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

The pine is the mother of legends.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

Up the airy mountain,Down the rushy glen,We daren't go a-huntingFor fear of little men.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

There is a war between the living and the dead, and the Irish stories keep harping upon it. ("The Queen And The Fool")

From the moment people first began practicing rituals, they have been creating folk tales and legends to celebrate their past and create a unique cultural identity. Mythik Press carries these legacies forward by publishing the greatest stories ever concocted, from King Arthur to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn't get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.

The Malleus Maleficarum, the definitive guide for witch hunters published in 1486, wrote of a woman who stole dozens of penises, then hid them in a tree where they lived like birds in a nest.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.