History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story,… — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, "You have all been most kind.” — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“We thought it was drops of dew and kissed cold tears from the crossgrass.” — Jónas Hallgrímsson Copy Share Image
Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Lost… What if all of the folklore elements your grandfather spoke of—actually were? What if there was only a paper thin separation… — Troy T. Tabor Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet… — James Black Copy Share Image
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense… — Fredrick Hatfield Copy Share Image
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Undertaker certainly is a cornerstone of WWE, and just as I say to myself that I really would have liked to been… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
“Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“In many parts of the world, ghosts are not considered to be a creation of local folklore, but a fact of life.… — Paul Roland Copy Share Image
“There are a number of good books that draw upon fox legends -- foremost among them, Kij Johnson's exquisite novel The Fox… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground,… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image
“It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of… — Mark Valentine Copy Share Image
“The Seer's Map by Stewart Stafford Howling dog, thou cursèd hound, Plaguest thy master with baleful sound, The cur's yelps taint the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Ever since I first read Midori Snyder’s essay, ‘ The Armless Maiden and the Hero’s Journey ’ in The Journal of Mythic… — Karen Mahoney Copy Share Image
