The knowledge that most Americans have of folklore comes through contact with commercial propagandists and a few energetic amateurs and collectors.

Sapir insisted that the discipline of linguistics was of integral importance for ethnographic description, arguing that just as nobody would dream of discussing the history of the Catholic Church without knowing Latin or study German folksongs without knowing German, so it made little sense to approach the study of Indigenous folklore without knowledge of the indigenous languages.

Success requires knowledge of Japanese mythology and folklore as players attempt to collect cards that match clues read by a referee.

As a poetic work of art, the Fasti is a unique fabrication blending authentic folklore, antiquarian knowledge, and fictional elaboration.

Foucauldian ideas of power and knowledge, as both inseparable and symbiotic, are implicated in the universalizing of European knowledge as truth, and the rendering of other forms as less valid or false: mere superstition, folklore, or mythology.

There is ongoing debate as to whether IP laws truly operate to confer the stated public benefits, and whether the protection they are said to provide is appropriate in the context of innovation derived from such things as traditional knowledge and folklore, and patents for software and business methods.

In Danish folklore, valravne that ate a king's heart gained human knowledge, could perform great malicious acts, could lead people astray, had superhuman powers, and were " terrible animals ".

The rigour of her classical formation, her knowledge and her taste bring dignity and nobleness to Spanish folklore, and fills me with respect.

Phase I were the British Administrators who collected the local knowledge and folklore to understand the subjects they want to rule.

While the sources that exist on Ermac are fallible, those accounts, along with folklore and legend, are all that historians have to base their knowledge on ; therefore, they are widely accepted and considered to reflect the truth.

* Gamayun, a prophetic bird of Russian folklore, a symbol of wisdom and knowledge, depicted as a large bird with a woman's head.

Kurumada also draws inspiration from universal knowledge and folklore, such as Greek mythology, Japanese and Chinese mythology, Buddhist and Hinduist doctrine, Trascendental philosophies, and classic works of literature, such as Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and Outlaws of the Marsh, to name a few.

It was founded as an academic correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs could exchange knowledge on folklore, literature and history.

The game was marked by immense amount of historic knowledge and folklore that is woven between the dialogues and the descriptions as the plot unfolds.

That the Earth must be spherical was known since at least the time of Pythagoras ( 570-495 BC ), but this knowledge did not reach ancient folklore such as the Alexander romance where Alexander travels to the ends of a flat Earth.

For over seventy years this event has served as a point of contact for thinkers from disparate fields of knowledge ranging from depth psychology and comparative religion to history, literary criticism and folklore, and provides a setting and a congenial group within which to discuss all things spiritual.

Demetrio Camarda ( Albanian: Dhimitër Kamarda ; Piana degli Albanesi, 1821-Livorno, 1882 ) was an Arbëreshë linguist, patriot of the arbëreshë, and publisher of Albanian folklore, with scientific knowledge also in the field of Indo-European linguistics.

Some forms of traditional knowledge were expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, and songs, without the need for a writing system.

Shingo uses Tarot cards to predict the future and uses a large knowledge of folklore and other background information to help the others.

Traditionalists will not reconstruct, but base their rituals on intimate knowledge of regional 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 ).