Folklorist Resurrección María de Azkue ties Mari Urraca to a legend about a princess of the Kingdom of Navarre, widow of a 12th-century nobleman who lived in the Tower of Muncharaz in the valley known as the Merindad de Durango.

In 1962, Folklorist Roger Abrahams explained the Dozens not only as a reaction to racism, but a mostly male behavior in a society dominated by women, hence the concentration on targeting opponents ' mothers.

Folklorist Alan Dundes asserts that by basing their approach on psychoanalytic theory, neither Dollard nor Abrahams considers that the Dozens may be native to Africa, although Dollard does not rule it out.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco points out that " Grimassi never claims to be reproducing exactly what was practiced by Italian immigrants to North America ; he admits Italian-American immigrants " have adapted a few Wiccan elements into their ways ".

Folklorist at the University of Maryland Barry Lee Pearson said modern examples of folk legends like Goatman are most commonly generated by teenagers, and the stories end up stirring interest in sites like Fletchertown Road.

Folklorist Ioanna Papantoniou considers the Celtic kilt, as viewed by the Roman legions, to have served as a prototype.

Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist.

Folklorist William Bascom states that folklore has many cultural aspects, such as allowing for escape from societal consequences.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

Folklorist Dr. Neil Rosenberg, for example, shows that most devoted bluegrass fans and musicians are familiar with traditional folk songs and old-time music, and that these songs are often played at shows, festivals and jams.

Folklorist Linda Degh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams's 1978 film Capricorn One, which shows a hoaxed journey to Mars in a spacecraft that looks identical to the Apollo craft, may have given a boost to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War era.

" By Jeff Lindell, Folklorist & WW2 Aviation Historian.

Folklorist D. L. Ashliman has reported kobolds appearing as wet cats and hens, and Arrowsmith and Moorse mention kobolds in the shape of bats, casts, roosters, snakes, and worms.

Folklorist Hazen likewise offers his own alleged eyewitness testimony of these creatures, which appeared in an academically praised and peer-reviewed publication, describing an occasion he found " a parted cable which bore obvious tooth marks in spite of the fact that the break occurred in a most inaccessible part of the plane.

Folklorist Elias Lönnrot began his travels from here when collecting folklore in Karelia.

Žganec became the first director of the Institute of Folklore Research, and was an active participant in the Folklorist Society of Croatia.

* Dr. C G Uragoda Chest Physician Orientalist Folklorist and Author ; President Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka Branch

* Ann-Marie Ivars-Swedish Folklorist and writer.

Folklorist Sir James Frazer cited many examples in The Golden Bough.

( Folklorist Peggy Bulger replaced him as AFC director in 1999.

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* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Notable bishops in United Methodist history include Coke, Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Philip William Otterbein, Martin Boehm, Jacob Albright, John Seybert, Matthew Simpson, John S. Stamm, William Ragsdale Cannon, Marjorie Matthews, Leontine T. Kelly, William B. Oden, Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Joseph Sprague, William Henry Willimon, and Thomas Bickerton.

This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.

In this story, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, settled in Indiana later in life and gave lectures on the " Wars of Europe " in which he extolled the virtues of the hussars, which his audience heard as " hoosiers ".

Cornelius van Bynkershoek asserted that the bases of international law were customs and treaties commonly consented to by various states, while John Jacob Moser emphasized the importance of state practice in international law.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

John Jacob Astor's ancestors were Waldensian refugees from Savoy, and Astor remained a member of the Reformed church throughout his life.

His older brother Henry Astor preceded him to New York, establishing a butcher shop with which John Jacob Astor was initially involved.

In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor foresaw that the next big boom would be the build-up of New York, which would soon emerge as one of the world ’ s greatest cities.

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* 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.