The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof ( blacksmith ), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore.

The word " conjure " is an ancient alternative to " hoodoo ," which is a direct variation of African-American folklore.

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.

According to Paul Devereux, the names of various creatures from Celtic folklore, including the Irish, " púca ," Welsh, " pwca " or " pwca ," could be from the same Celtic family as the term " pixies " ( in Cornwall, " Piskies "), however " piskie " could be related to the Swedish word " pyske " meaning " small fairy.

The word fairy derives from Middle English faierie ( also fayerye, feirie, fairie ), a direct borrowing from Old French faerie ( Modern French féerie ) meaning the land, realm, or characteristic activity ( i. e. enchantment ) of the legendary people of folklore and romance called ( in Old French ) faie or fee ( Modern French fée ).

The folklore of Orkney includes tales of the selkie folk (" selkie " being the Orcadian dialect word for " seal "), a race of shape-shifting seals that can take human form.

W. M. Hennessy argues that the word bodb or badb originally meant rage, fury, or violence, and came to mean a witch, fairy, or goddess, represented in folklore by the scald-crow, or royston-crow.

Despite the appropriation of " pow-wow ", taken from an Algonquian word for a gathering of medicine men, the collection is actually a very traditional collection of European magic spells, recipes, and folk remedies of a type familiar to students of folklore.

The word ogress has been adopted as well for fierce female characters of the mythology of non-European countries, such as the Matrika Putana killed by Krishna, the Japanese ogress Kijo ( 鬼女 ), ogress Sanda Muhki, who offered her own breasts to the Buddha, and the sea ogress of the Thai folklore story Phra Aphai Mani, among others.

Storytelling and oral tradition are forms of word of mouth that play important roles in folklore and mythology.

According to ancient mythology and folklore, it would be the three gods Thor, Odin and Freyr lying in Kungshögarna or Uppsala högar ( from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning mound or barrow ).

In this sense the word has evolved into gualicho and still survives in the local folklore of Chile and Argentina in the form of a noun and a verb ( engualichar, to cast an evil spell on somebody or something ).

In the folklore this word is also meant as poor weaver or weaving-labor.

" Aemeth " or " Emeth " is Hebrew for " truth "; the same word was written on the forehead of a Golem in Jewish folklore by magicians who legendarily animated these beings.

' One commonly repeated folklore is that the word derives from the combination of the French ' jambon ' meaning ham, the French article ' à la ', a contraction of ' à la manière de ' meaning " in the style of ", and ' ya ', thought to be of West African origin meaning rice.

The name is derived from Zeibek warriors of Anatolia, but old folklore said that the name of the dance comes from the words Zei, as a derivative of Greek God Zeus, and the phrygian word bekos, which means bread according to Herodotus.

The word Bylina is derived from the past tense of the verb “ to be ” ( Russian: быть byt ') and implies “ something that was .” The term most likely originated with scholars of Russian folklore ; in 1839, Sakharov, a Russian folklorist, published an anthology of Russian folklore, a section of which he titled “ Byliny of the Russian People ,” causing the popularization of the term.

The company name derives from oni, the Japanese word for the devils or demons popular in Japanese folklore.

According to a theory first proposed by Lennart Meri, it is possible that Saaremaa was the legendary Thule island, first mentioned by ancient Greek geographer Pytheas, whereas the name " Thule " could have been connected to the Finnic word tule ("( of ) fire ") and the folklore of Estonia, which depicts the birth of the crater lake in Kaali.

In Jewish folklore, Duma is the angel of silence and death's stillness ; the Hebrew word " Dumah " means silence.

Internet folklore sometimes suggests that lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas ( Airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student ) would be the longest word in Finnish, but evidence of it actually being used is scant and anecdotic at best.

Urban legends perpetrate a type of folklore, endlessly circulated by word of mouth, repeated in news stories and distributed by e-mail.

The word " dhampir " is associated with Balkan folklore, as described by T. P. Vukanović.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.