Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella'… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger… — Ruby Elhult Copy Share Image
“And even these ((the common hill fairy, the standard elf of folk-lore) are in danger of being banished into the limbo of… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
![“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which…” quote by J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/j-r-r-tolkien-204_anthropology_studies-on-the-origin-of-fairy-stories-a_2947633.jpg)