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"God forbid that I should tame her. We met and grew friendly as wild things both. She is a child of Nature, her mind is as pure as the sea. Moreover, Joan walks saint-guided. Folklore and local twaddle does not appeal overmuch to me, as you know, yet the stories drop prettily from her lips and I find pleasure in listening." Murdoch whistled. "By Jove!
His type among the animals is the wolf, and one readily recalls how largely the wolf figures in the traditions and legends and folklore of Continental Europe, and how closely his remains are associated with those of man in the bone-caves of the geologists. He has not stalked through their forests and fascinated their imaginations so long for nothing.
All that 'expectancy, hysterics, 'the dominant idea' and rude hypnotism, 'the sleep of the shadow, could do, would be done, as witch trials show. All these elements in folklore, magic and belief would endure, in the peasant class, under the veneer of civilisation.
An artful minx, that is the only explanation. But while she was looking at you, out of that curious aloofness of hers " The Doctor left the sentence uncompleted. "As for old Littlecherry," the Doctor began again quite suddenly, "that's his speciality folklore, occultism, all that flummery.
If any good American were distressed by the absenteeism of our authors, I should first advise him that American literature was not derived from the folklore of the red Indians, but was, as I have said once before, a condition of English literature, and was independent even of our independence.
No one knew more of folklore I think he half believed that he was a Changeling, and found comfort in the thought of that former life when he was one of the merry "Little Good People" and sure old Mike Lonergan and his wife ought to have known best. He knew the ways of every ghost in the county, and it was even said that he was on speaking terms with the Headless Man who haunted Liscannor.
We make no apology for giving them here, for, in addition to the interesting reading they provide, they also serve a useful purpose as a contrast to authenticated ghost stories. The student of folklore will find parallels to some of them in the tales of other nations. Brigid's Cathedral, in Kildare.
Household curios are not unassociated with the folklore of the district where such objects have been made, or were commonly in use; and the very names of many things, the uses of which are almost forgotten, are suggestive of former occupations and older methods of practising household economy and the preparation of food.
W.H.D. Rouse, "Folklore from the Southern Sporades," Folk-lore, x. p. 179. Alcide d'Orbigny, Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale, ii. Of these the most noteworthy is Midsummer or St. John's Day, still celebrated in a special manner, and styled El Ansarah.
It is only after the twentieth-century man delves into folklore or reads accounts of the beliefs and practices of the past, that he realizes that he stands on the shoulders of innumerable generations as the inheritor of a long process of mental evolution. Nothing, perhaps, can make him realize this fact more vividly than a study of magic. What is magic?
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