The equivalent being in Shetland and Orkney folklore is known as a " trow ".

In Fians, Fairies and Picts ( 1893 ), The Northern Trolls ( 1898 ) and The Aborigines of Shetland and Orkney ( 1924 ) MacRitchie attempted to further identify the fairies of British folklore with the Finfolk of Orkney mythology, the Trows of Shetland myth, the Fianna of Old Irish Literature and the Trolls as well as the Svartálfar and Svartálfaheimr ( elves or dwarfs ) of Norse mythology.

* The Selkie Folk, from Orkneyjar, " a website dedicated to the preserving, exploring and documenting the ancient history, folklore and traditions of Orkney.

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland the modern children's folklore of Santa Claus typically includes green-clad elves with pointy ears, long noses, and pointy hats as Santa's helpers or hired workers.

Traditional stories, in turn, are only one category within folklore, which also includes items such as gestures, costumes, and music.

* Domestic goose, which includes cooking and folklore

Some folklore about moles includes the notion that picking at a mole can cause it to become cancerous or grow back larger.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the GorgonsGorgonsportrayed in later folklore as half women-half birds, ( birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do ); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids.

The library includes Gimbutas ' extensive collection on the topics of archaeology, mythology, folklore, art and linguistics.

The subject matter includes biblical stories, mythology and folklore including N-07, The Clever Daughter which shows a naked woman draped in a net, riding a goat and carrying a rabbit under her arm.

The national folklore of many nations includes a founding myth, which may involve a struggle against colonialism or a war of independence.

The most famous annual event, one of the biggest in Slavonia, is the folk music festival " Vinkovci Autumns " ( Vinkovačke Jeseni ), which includes the folklore show and the presentation of folk customs of Slavonia.

Amazonian folklore includes mention of shapeshifters called encantados.

Tatar folklore includes Yuxa, a hundred-year-old snake that can transform itself into a beautiful young woman, and seeks to marry men in order to have children.

It includes folklore music of parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

Dužijanca includes religious celebrations devoted to harvest, street procession and performing of Bunjevci folklore and music.

The repertoire includes 30 items addressed by the traditional mountain songs, folklore and songs of international modern authors revised and harmonized by the teacher who is directing the choir into a genre that may involve several generations, even the youngest.

English folklore includes many superstitions surrounding hot cross buns.

The " Gadz " folklore includes traditional clothing, language, songs and legends, related symbolism, and ceremonials.

Hibernia is based on Celtic folklore and the landscape includes lush green rolling hills typical of Ireland.

Iorga's other work for the stage also includes the " five-act fairy tale " Frumoasa fără trup (" Bodyless Beauty "), which repeats a motif found in Romanian folklore, and a play about Jesus Christ ( where Jesus is not shown, but heard ).

Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and Horror fiction, fantasy fiction and poetry.

Pliny the Elder's ( 23 – 79 CE ) encyclopaedic Naturalis Historia ( c. 77 – 79 CE ) is a synthesis of the information contained in about 2000 scrolls and it includes myths and folklore ; there are about 200 extant copies of this work.

The repertoire of Peking opera includes over 1, 400 works, which are based on Chinese history, folklore, and, increasingly, contemporary life.

With this expanded social definition of folk, a wider view of the material considered to be folklore also emerged that includes, as William Wilson points out, “ things people make with words ( verbal lore ), things they make with their hands ( material lore ), and things they make with their actions ( customary lore )” ( 2006, 85 ).

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.

Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women.

The genre evolved from folklore tales of a dunce or youngest son going out in the world to seek his fortune.

There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).

Sometimes " folklore " is religious in nature, like the tales of the Welsh Mabinogion or those found in Icelandic skaldic poetry.

Many of the tales in the Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr. Brennan.

" The Queen of Port Orchard, WA " Illustration, by Alex SchattnerMany authors have set out to create the new folklore of their time ; weaving magical tales designed to carry moral messages.

Some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date from earlier than this work ; in these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.

In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning " flies ' mushroom ") This is how the mushroom got another of its names, Krötenstuhl ( a less-used German name for the mushroom ), literally translating to " toad-stool ".

The themes in the tales have become part of the folklore of a number of nations and express the national imaginations of a variety of cultures.

The 19th century also saw much scholarly interest in the reconstruction of pagan mythology from folklore or fairy tales.

There is at present little scholarly support for the view that tales of Robin Hood have stemmed from mythology or folklore, from fairies or other mythological origins, any such associations being regarded as later development.

Scott's childhood at Sandyknowes, in the shadow of Smailholm Tower, introduced him to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders.

Modern scholarly attention to the tales is mainly concerned with their role as folklore.

Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings ( 1981 ) to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies, and second, that one could learn much about urban and modern culture by studying such tales.

They attended the University of Marburg where historian and jurist Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in philology and Germanic studies — a field in which they are now considered pioneers — and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a lifelong dedication to collecting German folk tales.

With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, the brothers established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies.

The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

After the Christianization of the Germanic peoples, tales of dwarfs continued to be told in the folklore of areas of Europe where Germanic languages were ( and are ) spoken.

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.