Folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes mundane traditions of everyday life.

Folklore can also be the root of many cultural types of music.

Folklore can also be used to assert social pressures, or relieve them, for example in the case of humor and carnival.

Folklore asserts that the bells of the churches of Ys can still be heard in the sea calm.

Folklore of similar creatures can be found in the neighbouring nations of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Folklore has it that holly can be used to guard against Oni.

Folklore says that Kilstipheen, with its golden roofed palaces, ornate churches and spiraling towers can sometimes be seen shining below the surface of the waters as you look south to Miltown Malbay from Liscannor.

" Considering Murray's reputation to be " deservedly low " in academia, she argued that Murray's status as President of the Folklore Society had harmed the society's reputation and was a causal factor in the mistrustful attitude that many historians held toward folkloristics as an academic discipline.

Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they were born to spawn ; tracking studies have shown this to be true, and this homing behavior has been shown to depend on olfactory memory.

Folklore often identifies a green sky with tornadoes, and though the phenomenon may be associated with severe weather, there is no evidence linking it specifically with tornadoes.

Folklore in the United Kingdom is told that blackberries should not be picked after Old Michaelmas Day ( 11 October ) as the devil has claimed them, having left a mark on the leaves by urinating or spitting on them.

Folklore explains will-o-the-wisp to be witches who transformed into these lights.

Folklore accounts must be analysed on level of structure, not merely as songs or stories, but as groups of signs and symbols which contain some internal structural logic.

The horse twins may be based on the morning and evening star ( the planet Venus ) and they often have stories about them in which they " accompany " the Sun goddess, because of the close orbit of the planet Venus to the sun, ( JIES 10, 1 & 2, pp. 137 – 166, Michael Shapiro, who references D. Ward, The Divine Twins, Folklore Studies, No. 19, Univ.

Folklore said that the footprint of anyone who was to die in the coming year would be left in the ashes.

Folklore tells us that they are former trolls who tried to drag their boats out to sea only to be caught by the rising dawn.

Richard Blakeborough, in his Wit, Character, Folklore, and Customs of the North Riding, fills this apparent gap with verses he says were in use in 1800, and which seem likely to be authentic:

20th century heirs of the 19th-century view of an unchanging, immortal quality of " Greekness " are typified in J. C. Lawson's Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion ( 1910 ) or R. and E. Blum's The Dangerous Hour: The lore of crisis and mystery in rural Greece ( 1970 ); according to the Classicist Paul Cartledge, they " represent this ideological construction of Greekness as an essence, a Classicizing essence to be sure, impervious to such historic changes as that from paganism to Orthodox Christianity, or from subsistence peasant agriculture to more or less internationally market-driven capitalist farming.

Folklore has evolved to mandate that the lines must be completed so as to symbolically prevent evil spirits from entering the inside of the shapes, and thus are they prevented from entering the inside of the home.

: Can also be known as Fairy Tales, Folklore, Moral Tales, Oral Tradition, and Cultural traditions

In his foreword to A Treasury of American Folklore, Botkin explained his values: " In one respect it is necessary to distinguish between folklore as we find it and folklore as we believe it ought to be.

Folklore, he believed, was an art to be shared, not an exclusive artifact for scholars.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Folklore, as used by such writers, really reflects images engraved into it by the very person using it.

Folklore frequently ties the practical and the esoteric into one narrative package.

Folklore was a key instrument in integrating Christianity into Scandinavian society, and legends once focused on the pagan religion picked up Christian aspects.

Some stillblow three times over a strange spoon before using it, and in Alaska the medicineman blows into the nose and mouth of a patient to drive out the daemon of disease .< ref > Xavier F. M. G. Wolters, < cite > Notes on Antique Folklore on the basis of Pliny's " Natural History " Bk.

Folklore has it that she used to sit on the rock and watch for ships from Great Britain sailing into the harbour.

For over four decades the Ukrainian Canadian Club of Kingston has hosted the " Lviv, Ukraine " pavilion as part of the Folklore tradition, holding this popular cultural and folk festival annually on the second full weekend in June ( at Regiopolis-Notre Dame High School ).

Folklore has it that jackals, foxes and wolves roamed these areas in large numbers fin the past and the people of these villages spent their days gathering fire wood, berries and fruit from Rye Hill.

The Disney Corporation is notorious among cultural study scholars for “ reinventing ” traditional childhood myths ( Koven, “ Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey ”, 176-195 ).

The Western study of Nagualism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton who published " Nagualism: A Study in Native-American Folklore and History " which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and those who practiced nagualism in Mexico in 1894.

It was during 1980s that the central Institute of Indian Languages and the American Institute of Indian Studies started their systemic study on Folklore any after that many western as well as eastern scholars pursued their studies on folklore as a discipline.

Now National Folklore support Center, Chennai since last ten years has created a space for the new scholars who are pursuing the study of folklore with their commitment.

Folklore is not simply what professional folklorists choose to study, nor is it enough to do one's private work efficiently.

* David Clarke, Rumours of angels: a legend of the First World War – detailed study in Folklore

The Qatari Gulf Folklore Center is one of the preeminent centers for the study of the folk music of the Persian Gulf.

* The Irish Folklore Commission is set up by the Government under the direction of Séamus Ó Duilearga to study and collect information on folklore and traditions.

He was later imprisoned, in 1940, for his political activities and later released whereupon he sailed for Mexico, with the aid of the American-based Emergency Rescue Committee, to study pre-Columbian myths and American Folklore.

The study of tonalism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton who published a treatise called " Nagualism: A Study in Native-American Folklore and History " which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and those who practiced nagualism in Mexico in 1894.

The Irish Folklore Commission ( Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann in Irish ) was set up in 1935 by the Irish Government to study and collect information on the folklore and traditions of Ireland.