Some folk etymologies argue that the original forms of these symbols indicated their value through the number of angles they contained, however there is no proof of any such origin.

Some choreographed dances such as contra dance, Scottish country dance, and modern Western square dance, are called folk dances, though this is not true in the strictest sense.

Some Celtic-pop crossover bands and artists such as Clannad and Loreena McKennitt include folk harps, following Alan Stivell's work.

Some ballads, such as Erlinton, feature Robin Hood in some variants, where the folk hero appears to be added to a ballad pre-existing him and in which he does not fit very well.

Some elements of Taoism may be traced to prehistoric folk religions in China that later coalesced into a Taoist tradition.

Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly " Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " and " The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor ", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.

Some traditional hymns of Pentecost make reference not only to themes relating to the Holy Spirit or the church, but to folk customs connected to the holiday as well, such as the decorating with green branches.

Some bands remain faithful to the original roots, while others continually expand the jug band repertoire to include other folk music, popular music, jazz and classical music forms, such as The Juggernaut Jug Band of Louisville, Kentucky ( formed in the late 1960s and possibly the only full-time jug band in existence at this time ), The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs ( who also have been together for 40 years ), The Carolina Chocolate Drops ( an African American jug band that also plays old-time African American fiddle tunes ), The Hobo Gobbelins, The Kitchen Syncopators and The Inkwell Rhythm Makers.

Some use the term more broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, including crust punk, d-beat, folk punk, hardcore punk, garage punk or ska punk.

Author Strausbaugh summed up as follows: " Some minstrel songs started as Negro folk songs, were adapted by White minstrels, became widely popular, and were readopted by Blacks ," writes Strausbaugh.

Some stories from the Popol Vuh continued to be told by modern Maya as folk legends ; some stories recorded by anthropologists in the 20th century may preserve portions of the ancient tales in greater detail than the Ximénez manuscript.

Some of the most famous institutions include the Italmas, an Udmurt folk theater and dance company, and the local circus.

Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines.

Some adages are products of folk wisdom that attempt to summarize some form of basic truth ; these are generally known as proverbs or bywords.

Some of the local folk, who knew little of his great fame and exploits in Paris just a few years earlier, mistook his German-made telescope and unusual accent as signs that he was a German spy who was tracking French naval activity.

Some critics say that Rio Reiser created a new image of a German folk singer ; he was even called a " Schlager " artist, and a " Volksmusik " musician ( sometimes translated as " folk music ", but in a literary sense it means music of the people ).

Some of them are thought to fall into the category of folk etymology and are proposed based merely on apparent similarity between " okay " and one or another phrase in a foreign language with a similar meaning and sound.

Some hard rock / heavy metal bands, like Vatreni Poljubac, Divlje Jagode and Griva incorporated folk music elements into some of their songs, Divlje Jagode during their 1970s hard rock era, and Griva after their third album Griva.

Some people, principally non-mathematicians, use the term folk mathematics to refer to the informal mathematics studied in many ethno-cultural studies of mathematics.

Some of Worldbeat's most successfully integrated folk elements include Celtic, Afrobeat, Mbaqanga, qawwali, highlife, rai, raga, samba, flamenco and tango.

Some of its folk names in northeastern North America — including cape race, cape brace, cape drake and cape racer, as well as corruptions such as scapegrace — originated from its abundance around Cape Race, Newfoundland.

Some adults gradually began to believe Big Bird, the first being folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie who sang Big Bird a song about her belief in Mr. Snuffleupagus.

Some students studied, some watched movies, some sang folk songs.

Some cultural differences may be based on linear traditions, on teaching from one generation or “ school ” to another.

Some scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.

Some Protestants feel that such claims of apostolic succession are proven false by the differences in traditions and doctrines between these churches: Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox consider both the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox churches to be heretical, having been anathematized in the early ecumenical councils of Ephesus ( 431 ) and Chalcedon ( 451 ) respectively.

Some traditions related that at the time when Aeacus was born, Aegina was not yet inhabited, and that Zeus changed the ants () of the island into men ( Myrmidons ) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth.

Some of Bede's material came from oral traditions, including a description of the physical appearance of Paulinus of York, who had died nearly 90 years before Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was written.

Some traditions hold that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas.

Some Christians, such as Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, also have traditions of fasting, in which saints, as well as Jesus, are claimed to have been able to go for a period of time ( without any food, or with no food but the Eucharist ).

Some commercial bookbinders may refer to the cover and the inside of the book instead, but a few others, attached to their traditions, still use the terms " codex " and " case ".

Some traditions, notably the Seventh Day Adventists, teach that the soul sleeps after death, and will not awake again until the Resurrection, while others believe the spirit goes to an intermediate place where we will live consciously until the Resurrection.

Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reason — to do so.

Some guild traditions still remain in a few handicrafts, in Europe especially among shoemakers and barbers.

Some of the ritual traditions of the guilds were conserved in order organizations such as the Freemasons, alleging deriving from the Masons Guild.

Some scholars today believe that parts of John represent an independent historical tradition from the synoptics, while other parts represent later traditions.

Some favored imitating Europe while others renounced the West and called for a return of the traditions of the past.

Some Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Kathir and Kisa ' i, reproduced Jewish traditions, transmitted through early Jewish converts to Islam, regarding Isaiah.

Some secularists reject the use of " Judeo-Christian " as a code-word for a particular kind of Christian America, with scant regard to modern Jewish, Catholic, or Christian traditions, including the liberal strains of different faiths, such as Reform Judaism and liberal Protestant Christianity.

Some traditions narrated that 36 languages of the world could be traced back to Japheth.

Some traditions ( i. e., the Vedanta ), believe that a supreme being plays some kind of role, for example, as the dispenser of the ' fruits ' of karma or as exercising the option to change one's karma in rare instances.

Some traditions, such as those of Boha Village, describe it as a spirit rather than a flesh and blood creature.

* Some authors use the term " Epipaleolithic " for those cultures that are late developments of hunter-gatherer traditions but not in transition toward agriculture, reserving the term " Mesolithic " for those cultures, like the Natufian culture, that are transitional between hunter-gatherer and agricultural practices.

Some pagans also draw inspiration from modern traditions, including Christianity, Buddhism and others, creating syncretisms like " Christian Witchcraft " or " Buddheo-Paganism ".

Some pagans are influenced by Animist traditions of the indigenous Native Americans and Africans and other indigenous or shamanic traditions.

Some Jewish Pagans have returned to their own Semitic traditions for inspiration.

Some ancient poetic traditions ; such as, contextually, Classical Chinese poetry in the case of the Shijing ( Classic of Poetry ), which records the development of poetic canons with ritual and aesthetic importance.