Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

Later influences include mutual permeating of local traditions and various folk cultures.

During his time in Malaya, Gardner became increasingly interested in local customs, particularly those involved in folk magic and weapons.

All over the world, there are traditional styles of folk wrestling, and in some cases also stick fighting, rooted in local culture and folklore.

In some Bulgarian folk tales that originated during the Ottoman period, the name appears as an antagonist to a local wise man, named Sly Peter.

The diversity, reflected in a folk saying, " For each village, a different culture ", is perhaps best shown in the local languages.

In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange ( often local ) news, while others — especially those away from village centres — existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.

The most prestigious form became the so-called Peking Opera, though local and folk opera were also widely popular.

Within these categories many museums specialize further, e. g. museums of modern art, folk art, local history, military history, aviation history, philately, agriculture or geology.

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

According to the tradition used in Virgil's Aeneid, Segesta was founded jointly by the territorial king Acestes ( who was son of the local river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman named Segesta or Egesta ) and by those of Aeneas ' folk who wished to remain behind with Acestes to found the city of Acesta.

* The Cavalcata Sarda ( the Sardinian Cavalcade ); the a main event in Sardinia, on the last Sunday of May thousands of people come from all over Sardinia to Sassari to parade through the city in their local folk costumes on foot and riding on hundreds of the best Sardinian horses.

Stone Soup is an old folk story in which hungry strangers persuade local people of a town to give them food.

Other music included local folk, Scottish reels and the musicals Oklahoma!

The local styles of folk singing include Faga, Bhartahari, Sanja geet, Bhopa, Kalbelia, Bhat / Bhand / Charan, Vasdeva, Videsia, Kalgi Turra, Nirgunia, Alha, Pandwani Gayan and Garba Garbi Govalan.

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

) It is a moot point how early the expression arose, and whether through folk memory or local history.

The Gibson Guitar Corporation, founded in Kalamazoo in 1902, spurred local musicians playing in everything classical to folk, to modern rock.

Britannia Coconut Dancers are an English country dance troupe from Bacup whose routines are steeped in local folk tradition.

Unlike his father Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folk reputation that remains generally known even among local Taiwanese electorate.

The exiles of Númenor that arrived in Middle-earth were far fewer in number than the local folk of mixed descent, and this remained the case throughout the history of Gondor.

It exists mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), and oral literature such as the folk stories of Emperor Duyu 杜宇 who lost his kingdom and died a miserable death.

The Garner family had passed on " a genuine oral tradition ", teaching their children the folk tales about The Edge, which included a description of a king and his army of knights that slept under it, guarded by a wizard, and in the mid 19th century, Alan's great-great grandfather Robert had carved the face of a bearded wizard onto the rock of a cliff next to a well that was known in local folklore as the Wizard's Well.

Balin met folk musician Paul Kantner at another local club, The Drinking Gourd.

A proposed etymology of the name is Luwian pihassas, meaning " lightning ", and Pihassassi, a local Luwian-Hittite name in southern Cilicia of a weather god represented with thunder and lightning.

The etymology of the town name is unclear, but local folklore states that a train crew brought a sign reading " Etowah " from the Etowah River, and the name stuck.

The parish clergy and church were supported by tithes — like a local tax ( traditionally, as the etymology of tithe suggests, of ten percent ) levied on the personal as well as agricultural output of the parish.

Folk etymology in Vlach, a language of a local minority, gives " Zāiicer " as meaning the " Gods are asking ( for sacrifice )", but this is clearly not the origin of the city name.

The suggestion that the town's name comes from the words Green Oak is merely folk etymology, but the image has been taken as a logo for the town's main shopping centre, The Oak Mall and was once emblazoned on the local Co-operative Society emblem.

Very little is known about this game, but judging by the etymology of the words used to describe the many local variants of the game, it appears to be one of Italian origin.

In other Slavonic countries, a meal synonymous with pączki appears in the local cuisines whose name is derived from the same etymology as pączki:

However the etymology of Mildura is not entirely certain as in several of the local dialects the words have different meanings.

Pliny the Elder provides a slightly different etymology of Astaboras, stating that " in the language of the local people " the name means " water coming from the shades below " ( N. H. 5. 10 ).

Although the etymology of the name Kaziranga is not certain, there exist a number of possible explanations derived from local legends and records.

According to folk etymology the name Dounreay came about after a local with a strong accent tried to pronounce Down Reay to a map maker ( Down Reay being down the road from the village of Reay, with the rural and part-time post office at the entrance to the reactor establishment having had the correct name, Down Reay, above its door ).

In all such countries, the number names are translated into the local language, but retain a name similarity due to shared etymology.

The actual site of the martyrdom ( or of the cache of bones ) was pointed out to pilgrims as the " true place " the vrai lieu, a name it still carries, as Verroliez, according to local etymology.

The river basin formed by the Tambo river, probably conquest and occupied by external forces during several periods, generate a population with local and heterogeneous customs, leaving several vestiges about their civilization, suddenly attached to the remaining mixed etymology name from several languages such as Quechua, Cocachacra, Challascapi, etc.

Addy additionally noted that there existed a ' folk etymology ' for the name Ringinglow — a story also recounted by local historian J. Edward Vickers — that the village got its name after a man lost on the moors in bad weather was saved when he heard the bells of Sheffield parish church ' ringing low ' over the moors.

Helsinki slang or stadin slangi (" Helsinki's slang ", from Swedish stad, " city "; see etymology ) is a local dialect and a sociolect of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital Helsinki.

* Palong Festival ( May 10 – 13 )-Highlighted by colorful streetdancing and agro-industrial fair which expresses the local folks ’ gratitude for their town ’ s name ’ s etymology, and signifies the abundant presence of " Palong Manok " ( rooster's comb plant ) available in the locality.

The alternative theory on the naming convention, as espoused by the local populace ( i. e. a popular etymology ), is that the oasis of Ghadames derives from the Arabic words for lunch-" Ghada " and yesterday " ams.

The name Ochiltree was spelt Uchletree in the Middle Ages, and has a Brythonic etymology: Uchil tref-the high steading, either a reference to its landscape position ( commanding views to south and east ), or as a significant local centre.