Different people Quote by R.W.L. Moberly

“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as it goes…

— Helen Morales

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for…

— Elizabeth Hand

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman

Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some…

— Northrop Frye