He didn't know what the aliens called themselves, but they were short and stocky of stature, much like the dwarfs of folklore. |
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Teufel-hunden were originally known as the wild, ferocious mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore. |
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The academic world of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and folklore was an unfathomable concept to her informants. |
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According to German folklore, all humans, birds, and beasts have a spirit double, invisible but identical to the living individual. |
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The monomyth has become a very important theme in philosophy and in the study of folklore, bringing together many cultures and many worlds. |
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Therefore, to be recorded in folklore implied that the Aborigines also must have been around at the same time. |
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One final matter is worth mentioning, and this is the acid comments about folklore and folklorists in Alice's diaries. |
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A local guide will lead the way, entertaining them with tales of folklore and mystery associated with the area. |
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He argued persuasively for acknowledgement of the importance of studying regional folklore in its social context. |
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Feminist folklore theory shows that women's practices are resistant as well as acquiescent, contingent as well as contextual. |
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His rambunctious, charismatic appeal does call to mind the scrappy sort of life force so present in American folklore. |
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Our folklore and arts and crafts reflect our love and reverence for the animal world. |
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An annotated bibliography of his writings on Cornish folklore is also presented. |
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The mythology and folklore of the Kutenai consist chiefly of cosmic and ethnic myths, animal tales, etc. |
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Shlosberg's oil paintings are interwoven with Russian folklore in both large and small-scale surreal landscapes and cityscapes. |
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Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore. |
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In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers. |
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Its well-referenced contents will provide a reservoir of information for scholars of folklore, religion and history of plant use. |
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Every culture has its own body of folklore, myths, legends, song, poetry, stories, and parables. |
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The chapter ends by providing numerous excerpts from historical legends and folklore that mention the robin. |
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In fact, all I knew about Celtic folklore consisted of one silly story about a leprechaun. |
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These days children do not have grandparents telling them folklore and stories from epics. |
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Can you tell me anything about this supposed folklore hero that's risen from the dead to lead them to independence? |
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According to folklore, the lake is home to a giant serpent with extraordinary powers. |
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Concerts were staged in Hebrew and archaic Spanish, and ancient folklore dances were performed on Sunday. |
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By discovering the archaic roots of Indian culture, he came to understand the deep structures of his own national folklore. |
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This endeavor focused on folklore and history and began to unify the Ukrainian literary language. |
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The most famous folklore of England is about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. |
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Long before its formal recognition in 1943, the concept of autism appeared in folklore. |
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Like other Central Asian peoples, the Turkmens have a rich folklore tradition of epic stories, tales, and lyric poems. |
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He is madly in love with Bulgarian folklore, culture and the hospitality of people in Bulgaria. |
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While many of the short stories in this collection are part myth and part folklore, most of them have used satire to make a serious point. |
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Nowadays we see it as a piece of pleasing folklore, full of Tennysonian resonance. |
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Named after the African baobab tree, Vocal Baobab is one of the busiest and most popular folklore troupes in Havana, Cuba. |
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The sea serpent or its lake counterpart, the Loch Ness Monster, has long been part of oceanic folklore. |
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Both had an interest in Bulgarian folklore and noticed on their travels that this was shared by people in many other parts of the world. |
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Also included is the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, a master of melody and of his country's folklore. |
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The mercilessness shown by Stack Lee helped make this the stuff of folklore. |
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Belizean folklore is a combination of European, African, and Mayan beliefs. |
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And so, when dealing with these Awesome Days, I'll stick to the relative safety of Talmudic trivia, Midrashic miscellany, customs and folklore. |
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He also had a great attachment to the folklore and cultural traditions of the general Irishtown area. |
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The Spanish Pyrenees with their imposing peaks and delightful valleys are rich in traditional values and folklore. |
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Most of the miniatures deal with the epics and highlight religious mythology and common folklore. |
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The CD plays with older forms like the treasure hunt, a game with embedded clues, shadow puppetry silhouettes and traditional folklore. |
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The children were fascinated as she laced her stories with a fascinating mix of humour, folklore and common sense. |
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In rural folklore, the intersection of two roads was often regarded as an evil place, the site of black magic. |
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Compared to other ethnic groups of Udmurts they have managed to preserve their folklore in better form. |
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Much of the international folklore scholarship in those years was conducted in German. |
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Regional folklore, traditional music, and a powerful strain of evangelical Protestantism all helped shape this legacy. |
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But local folklore said he was a slave trader, and his statue was almost the first thing to go in the riots. |
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Gold is the one metal that transcends fashion because of its many traditional associations with myths, legends, folklore and spirituality. |
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Suitable subjects for booger tales are numerous Louisiana swamp and bayou terrors, many of them the products of Cajun folklore. |
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They provided indispensable services and became the subject of popular folklore and mythology. |
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Under his influence her interest in Irish folklore revived, and she began to study Irish mythology, taking her research into the field. |
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His articles on folklore, art, mythology and short stories for children have been widely published. |
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Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent. |
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Many historians seem to regard folklore as an ill-defined and unrigorous subject. |
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Here, even the tallest local peak, Tirich Mir, is inhabited by fairies, according to native folklore. |
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The Celt's priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore. |
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In American folklore, however, the same activity is associated with modern Greeks. |
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Some of the tales are clearly Buddhist in origin, some are taken from earlier folklore. |
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In the far right corner there was a bookshelf stuffed to the brim with books on history and folklore and legends. |
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The national ensemble for Chinese music and dance will present folklore and a history of the distant culture of Chinese people. |
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We'll cover the religion and folklore of that area and move spherically from there. |
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A whole folklore exists about the humiliations, petty vindictiveness, fights and resentments associated with involuntary communal living. |
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His first book on folklore, Custom and Myth, did not appear until 1884, but contained papers written and printed much earlier. |
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Giant cephalopods such as squid and octopuses are also a great source of sea-monster folklore. |
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But staging a play based on folklore in a traditional medium is a novel experiment. |
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As such, it's part of Trinidad folklore and history, and certainly one of the greatest calypsos ever written. |
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Cameroonian folklore has many intriguing myths, legends, and proverbs from its varied cultural groups. |
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Once you're using handclapping or stomping, people tend to make an association with folklore, with oral cultures. |
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He would love to hear from anyone who has examples of animal folklore or legend in Yorkshire. |
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Steeped in tradition, Kilgarvan is world-renowned for its rich folklore and its many scribes, songwriters and storytellers. |
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With that one remarkable delivery Warne has carved his name in cricket folklore. |
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Maori folklore focuses on oppositions between pairs, such as earth and sky, life and death, and male and female. |
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This movie scene shows sacred rites and chants corresponding accurately to the mystical Hebrew folklore of 16th-century Prague. |
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For example, in Slovenian folklore the blind and ghostly pale cave salamander Proteus anguinus is thought to be the larval stage of a dragon. |
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Skirts, overcoats, cardigans and vests were made predominantly from cotton and linen, many embroidered with folklore emblems. |
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Galician folklore includes many charms and rituals related to the different stages and events of the life cycle. |
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In later Buddhist folklore and thought these sentiments grew so prominent as to overshadow even the premier value of liberation. |
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As long as these traditions are cherished as an intimate part of their lives then true folklore will never die. |
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If they're lucky, the couple will catch sight of the mousedeer, which is the world's smallest hoofed animal and features in local folklore. |
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His reputation as someone who couldn't win a chook raffle even if he bought all the tickets was etched into folklore. |
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He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods. |
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There are, for instance, paste-ups of proofs, and a number of items relating to children's folklore. |
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I knew I wanted the film to be really restrained, but I also wanted it to explore collective memory and neighbourhood folklore. |
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His articles on mythology, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. |
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Avoiding the dry descriptions typical of field guides, this book focuses instead on the history, folklore and practical uses of each species. |
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Cultural heroes are important figures in the folklore of Polynesian societies. |
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Myth, folklore and inaccuracy cloud this event, yet it still has the potency to cause controversy. |
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He also met some of the major folklore and folklife Scandinavian scholars of the day including C. W. von Sydow and Sigurd Erixon. |
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In this essay, folklore, folklife, and folk culture are used more or less interchangeably. |
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Anne has been collecting stories and information from old people for the folklore collection. |
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Such political implications in popular culture suggest a direction of considerable importance for feminism and for folklore studies. |
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Today, he is largely forgotten as a folklore collector and his publications are little known or read. |
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So there's a lot of folklore surrounding the notion of flu shots making you sick. |
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Here he encouraged students to collect folklore from their home communities and established an archive for the material. |
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The official figure was fifteen rebels dead, but later local folklore had it as high as seventy. |
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Social investigators concentrated on the social problems of the south, whereas folklore collectors often focused on the north. |
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The brass band played traditional army marches as well as folklore motifs and jazz pieces. |
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The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town to collect local folklore. |
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The folklore festival and training camp for children is full of activities that connect them with the past. |
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The folklore corpus has been used by historians and anthropologists alike as a historical source. |
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The first concerns social historians' attitudes towards the folklore corpus. |
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Her Artwork is informed by an interest in the folklore traditions associated with landscape. |
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I can save the researchers many years of time by passing on the folklore of the area. |
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The album's tracks are a contemporary interpretation of Bulgarian folklore and Orthodox music. |
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It was not widely supported when it began, but because of the way its leaders were treated, it has passed into Irish folklore. |
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In Bulgarian folklore tradition, masked games serve as ritual blessings for good health, fertility and well-being. |
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In any case the cricket folklore among this cricket crazy populace stands to be enriched. |
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Her favourite Bulgarian band is D2, and she has an ear for the tunes of traditional Bulgarian folklore. |
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Probably the most well-known twentieth-century trickster, Shine is an epic figure in African American folklore. |
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The scoreline shook the rugby world and gave Otley an indelible place in rugby union folklore. |
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Devi's life story, which has revolved around caste conflicts, has entered Indian folklore. |
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Two popular supernatural figures in Iraqi folklore are the Tanttel and the Su'luwwa. |
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Dazzling feats from the turbo-charged toes of Michael Owen have yielded many unforgettable moments in football folklore. |
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Expect plenty of Russian folklore and myth and a chance to sing Russian Christmas song Father First. |
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There is no doubt had he been given the opportunity, he would have written himself into Australian cricket folklore. |
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This leads us to another point in the importance of the legends and folklore in forming and shaping a nation's character. |
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As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity. |
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According to Buddhist folklore, the Buddha-to-be was born as Prince Vessandorn, a generous man who gave freely to the people. |
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All that have specific traditions and customs, folklore, cuisine, and dress and may speak a different language. |
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Phinney demonstrated that folklore was a legitimate academic field of study. |
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Her interest in Aegean demotic music and the folklore of East Asia is evident in her operas Nausicaa and Sappho. |
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Save for a brief quotation from a dictionary of folklore, I have so far neglected Anglo-Saxon attitudes. |
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The Norse discoveries were couched in oral sagas and were dismissed as folklore by those in other cultures. |
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An analogy would be that, in English folklore, the elder plant has been used in countless different ways medicinally and for food. |
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Dispraise too was a normal folklore genre in Imerina, as can be seen in some hainteny that parody praise poems. |
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The story of a young architect's vision foiled by wrangling politicians is now the stuff of folklore, making it the perfect subject for an excellent musical melodrama. |
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The soul, the mind, moral entities, mental functions, have always, in literature as well as in the arts and folklore, been personified in human or animal form. |
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The library is also a wonderful resource for finding collections of traditional folklore, and many offer weekly storytime sessions for young children. |
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Until now, such figures have stridden the phantasmal plains of American folklore and popular culture. |
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Weaving folklore, political drama, a coming-of-age story, and a morality tale together, Bauerdick has created an original. |
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Iconic characters like Marlowe, Spenser, and James Bond make up the patchwork of our modern day folklore. |
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Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking. |
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This subtly points to our own construction of people as demons or our internalisation of demonologies without paying heed to the subterranean layers of history and folklore. |
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They also enjoyed the tales given by Michael on the history and folklore of the area and learned a great deal about the wild herbs and flowers growing there. |
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The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics. |
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The Gaelic League published many volumes of folklore and creative writing. |
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She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore. |
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The most famous buccaneers have been shrouded in legend and folklore for so long that it's almost impossible to distinguish between myth and reality. |
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Rich in culture, tradition, and folklore, the Mizos have often demonstrated their native dances to the nation during the Republic Day functions in New Delhi. |
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The book originated as a project in folklore and oral history. |
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In Montenegrin folklore, the origin of evil is a beautiful woman. |
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Jack in the Bush is an alternative name for a green man, the leaf-clad figure who appears in sculptures and is associated in European folklore with spring festivals. |
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Mrs Hill's early childhood was spent opposite the gasworks in North Kensington where local folklore held that the gasworks' fumes had magic healing qualities. |
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According to Galia Dicheva, spokesperson for the royal family, the bride will stick to the Bulgarian traditional-style gown with some folklore motifs on her dress. |
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In addition to his academic folklore works, he also published linguistic and ethnomusicological studies, as well as reviews and even witty cultural prose. |
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AlbuquerqueThis sleepy southwestern town has Native American folklore and petroglyphs, but slim pickings for social life. |
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He had a wonderful ability to retain old stories and legends and was a great source of information when it came to local history, folklore and genealogy. |
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There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric. |
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An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore. |
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A number of essays are especially relevant for folklore studies. |
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These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly. |
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The tomb-raiders are more terrified of the folklore spirits than they are of authorities that might catch them, he added. |
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The Japan Times on March 6, 2010, reported that in folklore the fish comes to the beach as an omen of an earthquake. |
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The rarely heard Hussite overture opens the programme, a powerful piece laced with Bohemian rhythms and melodies, taking its name from the Hussite warriors of Czech folklore. |
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Apparently drawing on Caribbean folklore to dramatise the concepts of the minor cards, hers was the first deck to actually represent the minor arcana figuratively. |
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Local folklore has it that black cockies appear before rain. |
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This can be seen through the ages, from ancient folklore and myths such as vampires and ghosts, which still have great power even in modern, scientific times. |
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Munfla has gone on to become one of the largest archives of recorded sound in Canada, with major holdings in folklore, folklife, oral history, and popular culture. |
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He was being accurate as well as modest, for it was later discovered to be a long-forgotten word, quoted in a 19th century folklore journal, for fairy-folk or little people. |
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Chile's rich store of folklore, sayings, and supernatural beliefs is derived from its European and Indian past, as well as its relation to the mountains and the ocean. |
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Both have collected folklore from Bab for the past three decades. |
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Often an account of the supernatural folklore of a region is no more than a list of ghosts supposed to haunt the area, followed by a tellable tale or two. |
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He published a series of books on the Sami language, names and folklore. |
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No one really knows why coconut macaroons work, though folklore from around the world suggests that coconut is known for its anti-diarrheal properties. |
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There isn't an exhaustive amount of authoritative or reliable information about his life, and there is an exhaustive amount of confusing folklore. |
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Ancient folklore has it that even Setanta was legless more than once. |
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One of the most popular characters in English folklore of the last thousand years has been the faerie, goblin, devil or imp known by the name of Puck or Robin Goodfellow. |
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The area is steeped in folklore and is the centre of Germany's Walpurgis Night celebrations. |
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The Queen's love of her Welsh Corgis dates from the time, in the 1930s, when her father King George brought some home, royal folklore holds. |
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Indian Doctress'' Molly Geet will present Algonkian Indian stories and will share the facts and folklore behind native plants. |
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In the theoretical sphere, he is best known for structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to the analysis of folklore. |
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Documented in Hawaiian folklore, Hawaiian Kahunas considered Noni to be a miracle plant. |
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The Giant Wetas are a type of large cricket from New Zealand, grow up to 10cm long, and commonly feature in Maori folklore. |
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Paramecium means that from a single cell of the Macedonian folklore we move on to something much bigger. |
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After all, shambling, bipedal primates are a common occurrence in folklore, in North America and beyond. |
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It's either magical realist work, or horrific work, or folklore, or just imaginative fiction. |
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The coyote appears in a great deal of Native American folklore. |
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He is the composer of many of the songs performed by Los Munequitos de Matanzas, a Grammy Award-nominated Cuban rumba and folklore group. |
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These are rhythmic pregnancy and melodics based on domestic folklore, syncopation, and lucidity and balance of proportion in musical form. |
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This tendency is especially interesting because in other respects Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian folklore has much in common. |
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The form Arap Ushas appears in Albanian folklore, but as a name for the Moon, not the dawn. |
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In later folklore, Odin appears as a leader of the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky. |
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Local folklore and folk practice recognized Odin as late as the 19th century in Scandinavia. |
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Into the modern period, Thor continued to be acknowledged in rural folklore throughout Germanic regions. |
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The national folklore of many nations includes a founding myth, which may involve a struggle against colonialism or a war of independence. |
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Romantic nationalism inspired the collection of folklore by such people as the Brothers Grimm. |
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Many artists and writers also drew on their native countries folklore and folktunes for their own work to express their nationalism. |
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Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure. |
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In Japan incense appreciation folklore includes art, culture, history, and ceremony. |
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The tradition of the gaucho has been an important element in the art and folklore of both Uruguay and Argentina. |
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They practiced a form of animistic pantheism, much of which has survived in the form of folklore and numerous myths. |
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In Canada, the canoe has been a theme in history and folklore, and is a symbol of Canadian identity. |
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The flowers were made into garlands that, according to folklore, were offered to statues on religious altars or in churches. |
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Even though the conspiracy was unsuccessful, Xiorro achieved legendary status and is part of Puerto Rico's folklore. |
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The local folklore can be experienced at a multitude of festivals, through dances and traditions handed down from generation to generation. |
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Usually made from a short pastry with almonds or milk chocolate, they symbolize the Antwerp trademark and folklore. |
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Traditional Mi'kmaq folklore states that the tides in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a giant whale splashing in the water. |
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There are also countless local festivals throughout the state highlighting many cultural traditions, historical events, and folklore. |
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Ukrainian folklore remembers the Danubian Sich, while new siches of Loyal Zaporozhians on Bug and Dniester are not famous ones. |
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Some forms of traditional knowledge find expression in stories, legends, folklore, rituals, songs, and laws. |
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Literary and artistic works based upon, derived from or inspired by traditional culture or folklore may incorporate new elements or expressions. |
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Shona sculpture in has survived through the ages and the modern style is a fusion of African folklore with European influences. |
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The story of Essie McGowan in Neil Gaiman's American Gods is structured around her transportation and promoting the Cornish folklore in America. |
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Ferns figure in folklore, for example in legends about mythical flowers or seeds. |
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In Slavic folklore, ferns are believed to bloom once a year, during the Ivan Kupala night. |
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Alternatively, a piece of local folklore once suggested that it came from a wrecked Spanish Armada ship. |
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In 1913 Ransome left his wife and daughter and went to Russia to study Russian folklore. |
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Peg Powler is a hag in English folklore who is said to inhabit the River Tees. |
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Moreover, Devon's folklore includes tales of a fearsome supernatural dog known as the Yeth hound that Conan Doyle may have heard. |
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The Headless Horseman has been a motif of European folklore since at least the Middle Ages. |
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Hellhounds are also famous for appearing in Northern European mythology and folklore as a part of the Wild Hunt. |
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These hounds are given several different names in local folklore, but they display typical hellhound characteristics. |
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In southern Mexico and Central America folklore, the Cadejo is a big black dog that haunts travellers who walk late at night on rural roads. |
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According to folklore, the spectre often haunts graveyards, sideroads, crossroads and dark forests. |
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According to Welsh folklore, their growling is loudest when they are at a distance, and as they draw nearer, it grows softer and softer. |
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The yeth hound, also called the yell hound is a Black dog found in Devon folklore. |
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A black dog is the name given to an entity found primarily in the folklore of the British Isles. |
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The yeth hound, also called the yell hound, is a black dog found in Devon folklore. |
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English folklore is particularly notable for its numerous haunted locations. |
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Ghosts in Thailand are part of local folklore and have now become part of the popular culture of the country. |
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Classic ghost stories were influenced by the gothic fiction tradition, and contain elements of folklore and psychology. |
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So we actually proved that the old folklore about a dense canopy leading to very veggie wines was true, Noble said. |
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The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones. |
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In Brazilian folklore, a similar character called Cuca is depicted as a female humanoid alligator. |
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Later in Scandinavian folklore, trolls become defined as a particular type of being. |
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A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. |
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Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend, was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. |
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The Merry Men are the group of outlaws who follow Robin Hood in English literature and folklore. |
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Their confrontations on the field during the Leeds v Bradford Northern local derby games are part of rugby league folklore. |
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The first known Danish literature is myths and folklore from the 10th and 11th century. |
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By staying true to folklore, the architects built the Nordic House to resemble an enchanted hill of elves. |
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In the Manx tradition of folklore, there are many stories of mythical creatures and characters. |
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The collections of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm popularised German folklore on an international level. |
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Many of the tales make up part of the wider Matter of Britain, a collection of shared British folklore. |
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In medieval folklore King Arthur's magician, the wizard Merlin, carried around a crystal ball for the same purpose. |
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The local people are known as Orcadians and have a distinctive Orcadian dialect of Scots and a rich inheritance of folklore. |
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In Welsh folklore, the summit of Snowdon is said to be the tomb of Rhitta Gawr, a giant. |
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His first children's book was The Gremlins, published in 1943, about mischievous little creatures that were part of Royal Air Force folklore. |
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Young Art and Old Hector and The Green Isle of the Great Deep are both fantasies based on Scottish folklore. |
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Stoker then spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. |
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Regardless, their importance as records of early myth, legend, folklore, culture, and language of Wales is immense. |
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Copper is commonly used in jewelry, and according to some folklore, copper bracelets relieve arthritis symptoms. |
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Silver plays a certain role in mythology and has found various usage as a metaphor and in folklore. |
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Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact. |
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For folklore is not taught in a formal school curriculum or studied in the fine arts. |
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By the turn into the 20th century the number and sophistication of folklore studies and folklorists had grown both in Europe and North America. |
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The first group that each of us is born into is the family, and each family has its own unique folklore. |
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This folklore can include jokes, sayings and expected behavior in multiple variants, always transmitted in an informal manner. |
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This edition is dedicated exclusively to articles on women's folklore, with approaches that were not coming from a man's perspective. |
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Verbal folklore was the original folklore, the artifacts defined by William Thoms as older, oral cultural traditions of the rural populace. |
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Most of these folklore artifacts are single objects which have been created by hand for a specific purpose. |
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Regardless of the motivation for the handicraft, this is folklore in action. |
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Many objects of material folklore, big and small, are challenging to classify, difficult to archive and unwieldy to store. |
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Each of these is a folklore artifact in its own right, potentially worthy of investigation and cultural analysis. |
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Without transmission, these items are not folklore, they are just individual quirky tales and objects. |
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Customs and the lore of children and games also fit easily into the language of a folklore performance. |
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If it is not transmitted, then it is no longer folklore and becomes instead an historic relic. |
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A more generalized analysis of folklore in the electronic age will have to wait for further studies to be published in the field. |
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In this broader metaphorical sense, the word suggests a claim that is in the nature of folklore, factoid or urban legend. |
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According to local folklore, Muckle Flugga and nearby Out Stack were formed when two giants, Herma and Saxa, fell in love with the same mermaid. |
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The walrus plays an important role in the religion and folklore of many Arctic peoples. |
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The god of the seas, according to Chinese folklore, was a large whale with human limbs. |
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Food is not stored in a pelican's throat pouch, contrary to popular folklore. |
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In Gaelic folklore, it was considered a particularly dangerous time, when magical spirits wandered through the land, particularly at nightfall. |
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Many of these smaller seas feature in local myth and folklore and derive their names from these associations. |
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Red foxes feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are sympatric. |
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In later European folklore, the figure of Reynard the Fox symbolises trickery and deceit. |
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Badgers play a part in European folklore and are featured in modern literature. |
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Canadian humour is an integral part of the Canadian identity and is reflected in its folklore, literature, music, art and media. |
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In West African folklore, they were considered sacred and thought to have been once human. |
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Literature includes such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, and folklore. |
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Yet it has to be noted that eastern Karelians have managed to preserve traditions and folklore better than their western brothers. |
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Rituals tied to natural features are found both in medieval sources and in Nordic folklore. |
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During the High Middle Ages, Scandinavian paganism became marginalized and blended into rural folklore. |
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In the modern period, Odin continued to be acknowledged in the rural folklore of Germanic Europe. |
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If folklore is to be believed, competition among teleservices agencies is fierce. |
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The festival featured performances by the National Guard Band and folklore troupes, in addition to productive families' handicrafts. |
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This talk will outline the first report of cinchonidine in North America and correlate its source with folklore. |
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Sherwood Forest is home to the famous Major Oak, which, according to local folklore, was Robin Hood's principal hideout. |
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Ayrshire folklore states that Coel and his entire army perished in the Battle of Coilsfield. |
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In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. |
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It has been well established for two centuries that Puck and Robin Goodfellow are both names for the devil from English folklore. |
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The most prominent regionalists were literary figures with a particular interest in folklore. |
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It includes folklore music of parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. |
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The themes are usually associated with the land, animals, folklore, impossible love and separation. |
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Romantic art also takes much of its aesthetic qualities from medievalism and Gothicism, as well as mythology and folklore. |
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This is what the natural philosophers Thales, Anaximenes and Aristotle believed, which could not be different from the folklore belief. |
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Somalia has a rich musical heritage centred on traditional Somali folklore. |
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Somalis have a rich musical heritage centered on traditional Somali folklore. |
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Burial cairns and other megaliths are the subject of a variety of legends and folklore throughout Britain and Ireland. |
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In Highland folklore it is believed that the Highland Clans, before they fought in a battle, each man would place a stone in a pile. |
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To this day, the story stands in folklore as a testament of the Scottish People and their culture. |
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Gerald Thomas, one of the finest folklore scholars in Canada today, contributed a Newfie joke collection. |
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This difference was kept alive by invoking Ireland's historic past, its myths, legends and folklore. |
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In the folklore of the Komi people of the Urals, stoats are symbolic of beautiful and coveted young women. |
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The festival featured shows staged by the National Guard band and folklore troupes, in addition to productive families' handicrafts. |
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In German folklore, a kobold was a mischievous household spirit. |
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