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Folklore
"Folklore" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Island folklore still recounts the story of the raft.
He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.
Irish folklore has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.
In Japanese folklore, bakeneko are cats with magical powers.
Curupira is a character from Brazilian folklore. He's described as a man whose feet are turned backwards and who protects animals and forests.
Oni is the name of a being in Japanese folklore.
African folklore is very interesting.
Johnny Appleseed is beloved in American folklore, because he traveled the country and planted apple seeds wherever he went; but folklore lovers don't know much about apple trees, which almost always require grafting to be much use.
There are speaking animals in all peoples' folklore.
In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away.
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[T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece.
“Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”
Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-GRYF—the horror place of the folklore of her race.
A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore.
Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.
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