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Updated: May 28, 2025
There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between.
E. Hoffmann-Krayer, "Fruchtbarkeitsriten im schweizerischen Volksbrauch," Schweizerisches Archiv fur Volkskunde, xi. pp. 244-246. E. Hoffmann-Krayer, op. cit. p. 246. J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,* i. 505. "Old-time Survivals in remote Norwegian Dales," Folk-lore, xx. pp. 314, 322 sq.
What we should do, then, is to pool our legends and make a delightful stock of religious folk-lore on an honest basis for all mankind. With our minds freed from pretence and falsehood we could enter into the heritage of all the faiths. China would share her sages with Spain, and Spain her saints with China.
This folk-lore of the darkies was exceedingly interesting to me, told in the charming manner which characterized the speech of my companion. The wheat-field ended at the pike, and here another fence was passed in the same manner as the first one. Then we swung down the dusty road together, side by side.
"Why ring a bell, when there flows out from oneself and everything about one a far more momentous silence? the least beat of my heart and the least thought in my mind echoing into eternity for ever and for ever and for ever." "O, look 'ere," said Huish, "turn down the lights at once, and the Band of 'Ope will oblige! This ain't a spiritual séance." "No folk-lore about Mr.
Recognizing "blind alleys" in children's fiction, such as the boarding school story and the covert love story, and buying no new titles of those types. Lessening the number of titles of miscellaneous collections of folk-lore in which there are objectionable individual tales, for instance, buying only the Blue, Green and Yellow fairy books.
A. Macdonald, "Some former Customs of the Royal Parish of Crathie, Scotland," Folk-lore, xviii. p. 85. The writer adds: "In this way the 'faulds' were purged of evil spirits." But it does not appear whether this expresses the belief of the people or only the interpretation of the writer. Rev. Robert Burns, Hallowe'en, with the poet's note; Rev.
James Robertson, Parish minister of Callander, in Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, xi. Rev. Dr. Thomas Bisset, in Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland v. J. G. Frazer, "Folk-lore at Balquhidder," The Folk-lore Journal, vi. p. 270. Rev. Rev. A. Johnstone, as to the parish of Monquhitter, in Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, xxi.
It is somewhat remarkable that the tenth, not the first, day of the first month should be reckoned New Year's Day. E. Westermarck, "Midsummer Customs in Morocco," Folk-lore, xvi. pp. 40-42. E. Westermarck, "Midsummer Customs in Morocco," Folk-lore, xvi. , pp. 42 sq., 46 sq.; id., Ceremonies and Beliefs connected with Agriculture, etc., in Morocco, pp. 99 sqq. See The Scapegoat, pp. 166 sq.
The element of the miraculous takes many original forms in their popular tales, and they have more than their share of the folk-lore legends and traditions such as Herodotus loved to collect.
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