The entire work of collecting and research in the field of the Macedonian folklore is classified into four periods. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It is with him, as it is with us, folk-lore pure and simple. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
The spectre-hound under various names is familiar in folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
No more curious fetich can be found in the history of folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
Beth was fascinated by the folk-lore of the place, and soon surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The folk-lore and ceremonial of name-giving are discussed at length in. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Scanty indeed would be our folk-lore had it all been transmitted graphically. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The folk-lore respecting the provenience of children may be divided into two categories. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Europe's early youth comes from the contributory and dimly illuminative rays of folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Cornish folk-lore -- their secondary names attach to them a popular belief in their extreme antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Müllenhoff records two cases of child-judgments in his collection of the folk-lore of Schleswig-Holstein. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Perhaps the story really belongs to folk-lore, reappearing at times under a new guise and in a new locality. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Great Mother's surrogates in the development of the thunder-weapon's symbolism and the associated folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
"A very interesting little book, carefully made -- a good one for students of folk-lore as well as children.". From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
A gradual and probably unconscious adaptation to environment is one of the manifestations of the folk-lore spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
A similar formula, only in slightly varying words, is found in the folk-lore of almost every country in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
It is the aim of this little book to bring together only the very best from the rich stores of Norwegian folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
The stories attaching to rock and well and hill were unending; every man and woman had folk-lore to tell us youngsters. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Cornish imagination usually stopped short at folk-lore and gave nothing to literature; in folk-lore it was certainly rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Cats figure in Norwegian folk-lore, too, as witches and picturesque incumbents of ghost-haunted houses and nocturnal revels. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
A. Mackenzie, of Edinburgh, has poured in upon me a stream of information, especially upon the folk-lore of Scotland and India. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
In recent times the natives have tended to make their folk-lore conform to Biblical stories, or to adapt them to conditions of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The rabbit and the hare figure in many mythologies, and around them, both in the Old World and the New, has grown up a vast amount of folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
There is a wealth of delightful imagination in the legends and folk-lore of the Jews of a later period which is almost entirely unknown to children. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Dr. Haas, in his interesting little volume of folk-lore from the island of Rügen, in the Baltic, records some curious tales about the birth of children. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The subjects are from classical mythology or history or English folk-lore, into which Lyly sometimes weaves an allegorical presentation of court intrigue. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Similar practices are reported from Central Europe by Sartori (392 (1895). 88), whose article deals with the folk-lore of counting, weighing, and measuring. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Schools at a later date, have killed this little suppliant's prayer, as well as most of the other rural rhymes and folk-lore tales handed down by mother to child. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
These observances however were often tinctured with a good deal of heathenism, the traditional folk-lore of the country, in the form of charms, magic and starcraft. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
They immediately became interested in the manners and customs of the Island Negroes, and from them we have the first accurate accounts of their folk-lore and sayings. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
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