Among folklorists who considered, supported or praised MacRitchie's views were Laurence Gomme, who in 1892 published Ethnology in Folklore, which argued folklore preserved a strong racial history of conquered or replaced indigenous peoples.

Folklore of Africa.

Folklore says that the mighty king Ravana kidnapped princess Seeta who was the queen of Rama and hid her in the place where the temple now is.

Folklore, in the Forest of Dean, England, tells of a giant boar, known as the Beast of Dean, which terrorised villagers in the early 19th century.

Folklore taught in local elementary schools suggested that Hartford City was originally a place to cross Lick Creek, known as “ Hart ’ s ford ”.

Folklore has it that ' The Great Fire ,' as it was known, was started by a Union sympathizer to prevent advancing Confederates from taking supplies from the town.

In Argentina the will-o '- the-wisp phenomenon is known as Luz Mala ( evil light ) or Fuego Fatuo and is one of the most important myths in Argentine and Uruguayan Folklore.

Folklore holds that Ir, son of Milesius, was buried on the island, and a text from the 8 < sup > th </ sup > or 9 < sup > th </ sup > century states that Duagh, King of West Munster, fled to " Scellecc " after a feud with the Kings of Cashel, although it is not known whether these events actually took place.

It is the largest and longest-running festival of its kind in the world ( acknowledged by the International Council of Organizations for Folklore Festivals and Folk Art, also known as CIOFF ).

* Folklore: famous for a musical style known as " ciranda ," of which Lia de Itamaracá is the most well-known singer

It is known as " The City of Folklore " for its rural nature, its preservation of traditional culture and especially for the collection of folktales, Tōno Monogatari, written by Kunio Yanagida in 1910.

* Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, formerly known as Swedish Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, or Institutet för språk och folkminnen.

A Red Cap or Redcap, also known as a powrie or dunter, is a type of malevolent murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in Border Folklore.

It has a small mountain range, and is home to the city of Parintins, known for the Parintins Folklore Festival.

IMP was the language used on NSA's homegrown time-sharing system known as Folklore.

He is best known for his monograph Kaiser und Abt ( Folklore Fellows ' Communications 42, Helsinki 1923 ) on folktales of type AT 922.

The sound recordist Mary Jane Soule and ethnomusicologist Margot Lieth-Philipp collaborated on an annotated CD, Zoop Zoop Zoop: Traditional Music and Folklore of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John ; these liner notes are among the comprehensive descriptions of folk music known.

Folklore tells that 12 kings are buried at the top of the Mountain and each year it is traditional to climb the hill on the first Sunday in August ( known as Cairn Sunday or Blaeburry Sunday ) and carry with you a stone to help bury the kings.

Olímpia is known as Brazil's Folklore Capital, due to the " Festival Nacional do Folclore ", an annual festival, and the Museum of Folklore.

He was well known in anthropology for his bibliographic work, compiling the lists of new books and articles that appeared in the early issues of the American Anthropologist and later the Journal of American Folklore.

His best known articles were " Plantation Meistersingers " in The Musical Quarterly ( Jan. 1940 ), and " Changing Patterns in Negro Folksongs " in the Journal of American Folklore ( Oct. 1940 ).

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

Over the years, prominent members of the American Folklore Society known outside of academic circles have included Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Ben Botkin, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Jan Harold Brunvand, William Ferris, John Miles Foley and Marius Barbeau.

Folklore and the Alternative Modernities, Sahu, Nandini, Authorspress, New Delhi, 2012

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 is individually created art that a homogeneous group of people preserve, vary and recreate through oral transmission.

Folklore is his hobby, and he, all too rightly, wishes it to remain as such.

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 ).

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.

The earliest recorded usage in English of the word edamame is in 1951 in the journal Folklore Studies.

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.

Traditional music is popular in Bloomington due in large part to the presence of the Archives of Traditional Music and Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.

Folklore is an important aspect of living histories because it provides stories which visitors relate to.

Folklore about the ring is relatively recent, not ancient, with " very little native Irish writing about the ring ".

Compendious in scope and idiosyncratic in selection is his Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore which preserves evidence of numerous folk customs now extinct.

Folklore about such spirits is not confined to the Sami people but is a part of Finnish mythology and tradition as a whole.

Folklore today is part of the national heritage, represented in particular by national and local traditions, songs, folk dances and literature.

* Gjirokaster National Folklore Festival is held every five years in Gjirokaster ( last held in September 2009 )

Folklore was quick to develop a motto: " Komsomol is a school of Capitalism ", hinting at Vladimir Lenin's " Trade unions are a school of Communism ".

Stein is home to the Appenzell Folklore Museum, which is listed as a heritage site of national significance.

One of the most important venues exhibiting traditional Albanian music is the Gjirokaster National Folklore Festival held every five years in Gjirokaster, southern Albania.