The elves in this story are more alike those of traditional Danish folklore, who were beautiful females, living in hills and boulders, capable of dancing a man to death.

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians.

Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.

In modern times and in several genres, she is compared with the figure of the Virgin Mary, La Llorona ( folklore story of the woman weeping for lost children ) and with the Mexican soldaderas ( women who fought beside men during the Mexican Revolution ) for their brave actions.

The story of Odysseus and Polyphemus is recognizable in the folklore of many other European groups.

A similar story is told, for example, in Jewish sources about King David, and in Persian folklore about the Mongolian warlord Tamerlane and an ant.

A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the " Pedlar of Swaffham " and Paulo Coelho's " The Alchemist "; Jorge Luis Borges ' collection of short stories A Universal History of Infamy featured his translation of this particular story into Spanish, as " The Story Of The Two Dreamers.

The core of this story contains two elements of major importance in the Asturian folklore: On one hand, lightning was the ancient symbol of the Astur ( and Celtic ) god Taranis, and in Asturian mythology was thought to be forged by the Nuberu, lord of clouds, rain and wind.

Local folklore relates a story about how Sun Quan's grandfather, Sun Zhong, was originally a melon farmer on the islet.

In putting together the story he was heavily influenced by the folklore and landscape of the neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up as a child, taking the local legend of " The Wizard Under the Hill " as a partial basis for the novel's plot.

The story prominently features various concepts in Wiradjuri folklore and tradition, such as the ngurupal: this is an area within the tribal territory which is a public assembly space for adult male Wiradjuri who have been formally initiated into manhood, yet which is forbidden ground for females or uninitiated males.

This story is probably only a legend of the Italian folklore, but it is a clue of the carefulness of the preparation of the expedition: Majorian collected informations on the enemy and gathered a fleet of three hundred ships to support the army in the reconquest of Hispania and in the invasion of Africa.

In Malaysian folklore, a similar story involves a tame bear, kept by a Malay hunter as the guardian of his young daughter.

This is presented as a dynastic marriage in early texts, but folklore preserves a more elaborate story, reminiscent the story of Zeus and Cronus from Greek mythology.

The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore.

Another common story of folklore is that the town was originally to be the home of the University of North Carolina.

Its true origins are in the United States: " This is a lovely folklore story, but sadly Mary Thomas of Llangollen was not the heroine of the nursery rhyme ...

Like Qixi and Chilseok, Tanabata was inspired by the famous Chinese folklore story, " The Princess and the Cowherd ".

This connection to folklore is further noted in the ganguro offshoot style called yamanba, named after a famous story about a mountain witch.

* Cautionary tale, a traditional story told in folklore, to warn its hearer of a danger

The same commentator, who deemed Un om mare " perhaps Eliade's most memorable short story ", connected it with the uriaşi characters present in Romanian folklore.

The story of the dike-plugging boy is, however, not widely known in the Netherlands — it is a piece of American, rather than Dutch, folklore.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant.

The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.

As a result, most people don't have more than a vague idea what folklore actually is ; ;

And so well is such ignorance preserved by the amateur and the money-maker that even at the college level most of the hundred-odd folklore courses given in the United States survive on sentiment and nationalism alone.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

Shawiya music is a folklore diverse areas of the aurès mountains.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics.

In usage, there is a continuum between folklore and mythology.

* Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

* John the Conqueror also known as High John the Conqueror, and many other folk variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof ( blacksmith ), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore.

Wilhelm Grimm is noted to be the first person to ever link Beowulf with Irish folklore.

In Welsh folklore, a similar creature is known as the Hag of the mist.

Cannibalism features in the folklore and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong.

There is a rich history of cross-dressing found in folklore, literature, theater, and music.

The lake is the subject of local folklore ; a tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled ( though for only one day ).