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    folklore


    1. In some versions of the folklore surrounding Baba Yaga, she irons out the path behind her so no one can tell where she’s been


    2. monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans


    3. The knowledge of dragons died out, but their legend lived on in folklore


    4. Except for in folklore, all records and knowledge seemed to have been lost


    5. the forest were rarely seen again; or so the folklore


    6. "The last thing I want is to battle with a folklore, which could send everyone I bring in to work, off looking for GOLD!"


    7. “The impact upon cultures of their own folklore, myths, and legends, actually


    8. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion


    9. The interest in folklore was from early life


    10. as it would become known in the annals of Barclay folklore

    11. “It is almost always superstitious nonsense, laden with rumour and folklore


    12. Along the way he became an explosives expert (only Special Forces and the Security Branch had these skills) and took command of a unit known as "Vlakplaas" in folklore


    13. Nevertheless, another legend of local folklore maintains that “a series of relentless sea tempests had whipped Temasek


    14. A Mystical creature whose very existence was only told in legends and folklore; an oversized White Owl, with razor sharp talons and cutting wisdom, gleaned from thousands of years


    15. Language like that in the preceding quote seemed to me more like one of those borrowings that I have referred to earlier, whose basis was more akin to mythological folklore


    16. This epic, it seems to me, is written in a style similar to Homer’s 900 BC Iliad, which itself was told as if about a very ancient folklore tale


    17. history, folklore, culture and habits of the region


    18. “There are other such hints in the folklore and legends of the world… ‘I shall come


    19. Egyptian folklore says that when a raven flies in from the western desert it spells death for someone nearby


    20. While Sut had told his tale of hazards on the trail, I’d been drawn into the folklore of the West

    21. In forex, this fantasy is further reinforced by the folklore of the markets


    22. It had its roots in local folklore and a song titled the Rose of Tralee


    23. Matthew could see he was talking to a man that knew about the area; it’s history and folklore


    24. And that cherished day at the ashram became folklore in time


    25. “A land that is rich in folklore and horror stories


    26. in the ancient folklore of the Hebrews? When did vampires first sink their teeth into the orient, dripping blood on rice paddies?


    27. I found references in the writings of Zohar and Jewish folklore


    28. in the scriptures and in folklore


    29. If what I describe conflicts with the ten thousand other reports – no matter how revered those reports and those who filed them may be – then to me those reports are nothing more than fable and folklore and should be consigned to the dust-heap of history


    30. Belief in spirits and in talking to the dead was ingrained in Miccosukee folklore and Joe Billie accepted his visions never thinking anything wrong

    31. With perfect diction young Tiger repeated the folklore about Joe Billie Bloodtooth and the killing of his mother and Grandfather and the revenge killing of his father, James Bloodtooth at the place called skull hammock


    32. It phased into space-time like a colossal ghost ship right from old Taelrok folklore


    33. Nobody takes that feud serious anymore; it has become part of the folklore


    34. works listed in Section 1(f) below, which, sions of folklore; (ii) in the case of a phono-by reason of the selection and arrange-


    35. A few governments from top countries gathered at a meeting held by the planets ambassador to the other worlds, Mencho Cheinny, who would be later known as Papa Folklore


    36. These creatures who have existed in the worlds folklore since


    37. Contrast this with traditional Malagasy folklore and beliefs, wherein, it was prohibited to eat lemur meat, they were believed to be protectors, and in a minority of cases they were considered relatives


    38. written in our history books and in ancient folklore that eons


    39. The identity and fate of the author remains a mystery and part of Appalachian Trail folklore


    40. Even though the way Sirens were represented in folklore changed as time went by, the fascinating mix of temptation and charm persists to this day

    41. This is all folklore, isn’t it?


    42. The deciding factor proved to be a reported sighting of a folklore festival in Trabzon


    43. At least according to ancient folklore, but who believes in that stuff


    44. A lot of it had to deal with local myths and folklore, with the occasional horror story


    45. She’s not just some piece of local folklore


    46. Besides, in the modern warfare, of what avail is the famed Arabian horse, the swiftest breed on earth that served the Musalman marauders so admirably in their plunders of yore in the Islamic folklore? On the contrary, the heaps of shoes that Nasser’s soldiers rid themselves with so as to run faster to safety in the Sinai desert give an unerring account of the martial decay of the once dreaded Mohammedan Armageddon


    47. True that Islam had dwelt all about the jihad against the kafirs to the last detail, even of splitting the ‘spoils of war’ among the believers; but then, how even the All Knowing Allah were to know that the Musalmans one day would wage jihad against their fellow Musalmans, and that which ‘the God’ couldn’t foresee, how His Messenger would have seen! Besides, Muhammad, gloating over the sycophantic antics of his flock, any way, would have been too overwhelmed to visualize the impending schism for airing an opinion as otherwise that would have surely found its way into the Islamic folklore


    48. Many movies were made, and I entered into folklore along with Vampires, Dragons, Werewolves and Zombies


    49. Their story became a popular piece of entertaining folklore


    50. And to call it folklore is also misleading because we were unable to determine where such a story came about

















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    "folklore" definitions

    the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture