My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that,… — Alan Dundes 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
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it… — Alan Dundes 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
Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“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
So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece,… — Terri Windling 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
“It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my… — Julie Kagawa 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
“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
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something -… — Alan Dundes 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
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are flat . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow 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
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“ Nothing I have will tempt you?” King Herla murmured. Lin could only shake her head. “Then perhaps I should offer myself,”… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um... it's still going, I… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre 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
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
