Many plants in this family, such as wild carrot, have estrogenic properties and have been used as a folk medicine for birth control.

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.

Many Asian civilizations distinguish between art / court / classical styles and " folk " music, though cultures that do not depend greatly upon notation and have much anonymous art music must distinguish the two in different ways from those suggested by western scholars.

Many smaller folk harps are tuned in C or F, and may have no levers, or levers on the F and C strings only, allowing a narrower range of keys.

Many instrumental performers and singers, including a number of music celebrities, have learned " by ear ", especially in folk music styles such as blues and popular styles such as rock music.

Many of the " revivals ", Wicca and Neo-druidism in particular, have their roots in 19th century Romanticism and retain noticeable elements of occultism or theosophy that were current then, setting them apart from historical rural ( paganus ) folk religion.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

Many other " national epics ," epic poetry considered to reflect the national spirit, were produced or revived under the influence of Romantic nationalism: particularly in the Russian Empire, national minorities seeking to assert their own identities in the face of Russification produced new national poetry – either out of whole cloth, or from cobbling together folk poetry, or by resurrecting older narrative poetry.

Many roses have been used in herbal and folk medicines.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

Many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised ; many French devins-guerisseurs (" diviner-healers ") were accused of witchcraft, and over one half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.

Many folk stories and legends about Ní Mháille have survived since her actual days of pirating and trading.

Many rural folk and some townspeople tended a small garden which produced vegetables such as asparagus, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, beans, cabbage, carrots, leeks, and peas, as well as medicinal and flavoring herbs.

Many hippies rejected mainstream organized religion in favor of a more personal spiritual experience, often drawing on indigenous and folk beliefs.

Many folk songs and chanting styles are derived from Drukpa music.

Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round The Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the majority of the songs lyrics, based upon traditional folk songs.

Many bands in the genre enhance their sound with the use of a folk instrument.

Many were based on traditional European folk tunes, with lyrics that reflected the lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with the themes of cutting, hauling, rolling and driving, as well as narrative songs that involved romance.

Many of the songs were from the music hall, country and western and folk traditions.

Many fall or autumn North European folk black face customs are employed ritualistically to appease the forces of the oncoming winter, utilizing characters with blackened faces, or black masks.

Many were movie folk — Actresses Louise Beavers, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, etc.

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Many of his songs were written to folk airs.

Many communities, high schools and colleges staged Sadie Hawkins dances, patterned after the similar annual event in the strip.

Many of the dances of Fabritio Caroso's manuals are meant for two dancers with a few for four or more dancers.

Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Many social dance forms have a long history of same-sex and role-crossing partnerships, and there have been some changes to the strict gendering of partner dances in some competition or performance contexts.

Many of the compulsory dances which are still competed today were developed by British dancers in the 1930s, and 12 of the first 16 World Championships in ice dance were won by British couples.

Many set dances are performed in treble jig time, a few being Drunken Gauger, Blackthorn Stick, The Three Sea Captains, and St Patrick's Day.

Many of the figures of Irish set dances, which developed from Continental quadrilles, are danced to polkas.

Many commentators have noted simply Chaplin's use of Wagner's Lohengrin prelude where Hynckel dances with the globe-balloon.

Many dances are only known regionally, though the most popular in a " traditional " vein were ( until the last couple of years ) published by the RSCDS.

Many of his dances were built around a " gimmick ," such as dancing on the walls in " Royal Wedding " or dancing with his shadows in Swing Time, that he or his collaborator had thought up earlier and saved for the right situation.

Many dances and weddings were held there also.

Many, if not most, of the swing dances listed above are popular as social dances, with vibrant local communities that hold dances with DJs and live bands that play music most appropriate for the preferred dance style.

Many of these dances are also sacred ceremonies of secret societies like the hamatsa, or display of family origin from supernatural creatures such as the dzunukwa.

Many court dances were based on the events of the story.

Many of their songs and dances, however, began to dwindle in popularity.

Many early line dances, though, were adaptations of disco line dances.

Many dances occurred here through the Great Depression era into the mid-20th century.

Many mask dramas and mask dances are performed in many regional areas of Korea.

Many features of our own history are repeated in this history, though under changed circumstances: The equivalent of the 16th and 17th Centuries have bold navigators and adventurers, romanticised by later generations but unpleasantly brutal and ruthless when looked at closely ; in the late 18th to mid-19th Centuries, a decadent old order is overthrown by revolution followed by a reign of terror and the reemergence of Republicanism ; though Italy remains a central part of the Roman Empire, the Latin dialect spoken there develops into a kind of Italian, and the name " Marcus " changes into " Marco "; though Vienna is a provincial capital which never had an Emperor of its own, its population dances the Waltz ; by the 20th Century, people travel by cars rather than carriages and by the second half of the century, space flight is achieved.

Many social dances are partner dances.