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 folk traditions hold that the leprechauns are descended from the Tuatha de Danann.

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 etymologies are part of urban legends, and seem to respond to a general taste for the surprising, counterintuitive and even scandalous.

Some of the Philistine names, such as Goliath, Achish, and Phicol, appear to be of non-Semitic origin, and Indo-European etymologies have been suggested.

Some proponents of this theory argue, only on cultural grounds, that both etymologies may well be correct, and that there may have been a conscious poetic exploitation of the phonological coincidence between trobar and the triliteral Arabic root TRB when sacred Sufi Islamic musical forms with a love theme first spread from Al-Andalus to southern France.

Some of these explanations are obvious folk etymologies, and there is no consensus on any of them.

Some claim that the term " the real McCoy " was applied to the rum provided by William S. McCoy, who used Bimini to transport whiskey to America during the Prohibition, although the phrase pre-dates the Prohibition Era – it is first recorded in the US in 1908 – and the phrase is the subject of numerous fanciful folk etymologies.

Some of the words provided with false Turkish etymologies through the practice of goropism were school, which was attributed to the Turkish word okul ( school ); God, attributed to the Turkish kut ( luck ); Bulletin from belleten ( to learn by heart ); Electric from Uyghur yaltrık ( shine ); and philosophy.

* Some dictionaries of old languages do not distinguish glosses ( meanings ) from etymologies, as when Old English is defined as " one who sits on the same rowing bench ; companion ".

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

Some argue that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification.

) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: " Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Some scientific anti-realists argue further, however, and deny that unobservables exist even as non-truth conditioned instruments.

Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

Some, like Hernando De Soto, argue that much of the poverty in the Third World countries is caused by the lack of Western systems of laws and well-defined and universally recognized property rights.

Some argue that a sutta in the Gamani Samyuttam rules out all military service.

Some argue that the Aberdeen Bestiary might be the older of the two.

Some argue that the evidence for antipsychotics from discontinuation-relapse studies may be flawed, because they do not take into account that antipsychotics may sensitize the brain and provoke psychosis if discontinued, which may then be wrongly interpreted as a relapse of the original condition.

Some argue that, overall, the evidence suggests that antipsychotics only help if they are used selectively and are gradually withdrawn as soon as possible and have referred to the " Myth of the antipsychotic ".

Some argue that the view of Arianism that exists to this day among most Christians would not have existed were it not for Athanasius.

Some argue that the openness of the country's political system has been a significant factor in Botswana's stability and economic growth.

Some authors even argue that the language moved westward during Late Antiquity, after the fall of Rome, into the north part of Hispania in which Basque is spoken today.

Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP ( on base percentage ).

Some such as Maulana Karenga and Owen Alik Shahadah argue African-American is more appropriate because it accurately articulates geography and historical origin.

Some critics claim copyright law protects corporate interests while criminalizing legitimate use, while proponents argue the law is fair and just.

Some scholars argue that conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, contributing to conspiracism emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the possible replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind.

Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.

Some music historians argue that Chicanos of Los Angeles in the late 1970s might have independently co-founded punk rock along with the already-acknowledged founders from British-European sources when introduced to the US in major cities.

Some argue that consequentialist and deontological theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Some, like Henry Sidgwick, argue that a certain degree of egoism promotes the general welfare of society for two reasons: because individuals know how to please themselves best, and because if everyone were an austere altruist then general welfare would inevitably decrease.

Some scientists argue that megafauna cryptids are unlikely to exist undetected in great enough numbers to maintain a breeding population, and are unlikely to be able to survive in their reported habitats due to issues of climate and food supply.

Some argue that the concept of the collapse of a " real " wave function was introduced by Heisenberg and later developed by John Von Neumann in 1932.

Some people argue that this is risky as specimens from a more protected population could be ‘ laundered ’ through the borders of a Party whose population is not as strictly protected.