Quotes about Folklore

Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given;

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

Oh, but there are, Marilla," cried Anne eagerly. "I know people who have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year. You know Charlie Sloane's grandmother wouldn't tell a story for anything. She's a very religious woman. And Mrs. Thomas's father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head

A proverb and a byword among all people.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...