Sentence examples for collection of folklore from inspiring English sources

The chronicle was continued by his son Nicolae, who also pioneered the collection of folklore and legends.

As such, Robert Means Lawrence's The Magic of the Horseshoe: A Collection of Folklore, Myths and Superstitions (Hesperus, £9.99) is an informative beast.

Grimm's Fairy Tales, classic and influential collection of folklore by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published in two volumes as Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812 15; "Children's and Household Tales") and later revised and enlarged seven times between 1819 and 1857.

Inspired by Yeats' collection of folklore, The Celtic Twilight, Lady Gregory went along the West of Ireland looking for stories, which she thought of as clues leading to "that mountain top where things visible and invisible meet".

His recuperation was spent beginning his collection of folklore stories.

The first evidence of its existence is a short list of words in a historical work of 1698; there are also collections of folklore texts from the 19th century, but it is otherwise unwritten.

Other people who examined myth from the folklore standpoint included Sir James Frazer, the British anthropologist, the brothers Grimm (Jacob, who influenced Mannhardt, and Wilhelm), who are well-known for their collections of folklore, and Stith Thompson, who is notable for his classification of folk literature, particularly his massive Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (1955).

That, along with the publication of a Hurston biography in 1977 by Robert E. Hemenway and a Hurston anthology in 1979 edited by Ms. Walker, led to a resurgence of interest in Hurston's work, which includes four novels, an autobiography, short stories, plays, essays, articles and two collections of folklore.

With her renewed interest in folk tunes came an interest in folklore; Stafford established a contest to award a prize to the best collection of American folklore submitted by a college student.

Is it possible that Hope resented Kilvert's posthumous fame so much that she destroyed not only the diary, but also his collection of local folklore, some of which she had published under her own name?

By inference from contemporary documents, we see Yeats being sent away by Maud Gonne, winning a fight against other warlocks in the Order of the Golden Dawn and editing a collection of Irish folklore, all in one week.