“In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their… — Adrian Morgan Copy Share Image
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment.… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of… — 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
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling 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
If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past.… — Robert Eggers 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
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the… — John Wayne 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 developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen. *Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in… — CLAMP 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
“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
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,… — Traditional folktale ending Copy Share Image
There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work,… — Kelley Armstrong 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
