Holly and rowan trees laden with red berries - another portent in folklore of sub-zero conditions - have been widely remarked upon.
Months after the post, a Google search for "Zappos" turned up Lamarr's tribute among the top-ranked links — a word-of-mouth message of untold value, another piece of folklore that separates the company from the competition.
Another piece of folklore said his fastball was so zippy it disappeared in flight, his control so precise he could knock the ash off a teammate's cigarette with a pitched ball.
And he locates in Stravinsky's work in particular a creative response to new technology that resulted not only in a "steel-tipped" sound to his neo-baroque compositions of the interwar years, but a powerfully constructive creative relationship with it as "a new kind of folklore, another infusion of the real".
One chapter looks at the "early years," including works about day care centers, scout programs, children's books, and the basic definition of what we mean by "folklore". Another chapter covers high school: cheerleading, football, yearbooks, and beliefs of Hispanic students.
Another element of folklore favored by Kripke was the story of Robert Johnson, which he focused on in his first screenplay as a writer.
Another bit of health folklore "everybody knows" that turned out to be unfounded is vitamin E's protective effect against cardiac problems.
After Latvia won its independence in 1991, Mr. Birkerts decided the library would embody another element of Latvian folklore, that of the Castle of Light, representing the abiding strength of wisdom amid the country's rebirth of freedom.
Another piece of Heseltine folklore is a fabulously snobby comment recorded by the late political diarist Alan Clark: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture".
Another strand of Cornish folklore is derived from tales of seafaring pirates and smugglers who thrived in and around Cornwall from the early modern period through to the 19th century.
