Sentence examples for eastern folklore from inspiring English sources

Similar stories exist in European, African, and Eastern folklore; the essentials are the locked and forbidden room, the wife's curiosity, and her 11th-hour rescue.

From that moment Vassily became a devotee of this new, spiritual craft: a weary village healer, yet without the ascetism of much eastern folklore.

"I interviewed Jes in the bath and trotted out my knowledge of monkeys journeying to the west and made it sound as if I was well versed in eastern folklore and mysticism… and we got on really well and found ourselves giggling through most of the interview".

The prints bridge traditional and contemporary techniques and themes, depicting scenes of Eastern folklore and history, while introducing the use of chemical dyes, contemporary composition styles, and bold details.

While his fellow Hungarian Bartók used the eastern European folklore as material and inspiration, Ligeti uses anything he can find – for example, in the violin concerto there are several okarinas, instruments that are more than 10,000 years old.

Her publications include "Yiddish Folktales" (1998), a classic collection of Eastern European Jewish folklore.

I don't mean religion, folklore, mythology or eastern esoterica, valid subjects of study though these are.

BALAZS RUMY This young Hungarian clarinetist, an alumnus of the Juilliard School and a past principal player with prestigious youth orchestras in Europe, will be presented by Juilliard in a fascinating program of 20th-century Eastern European music inspired by folklore and folk songs.

The first program, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. features Simon Shaheen, a master of the 'ud (an Arabian lute) and his Near Eastern Music Ensemble in a juxtaposition of traditional folklore pieces and new Arabic-influenced classical compositions.

This year's BBC's composer weekend, focusing on the music of Judith Weir, was entitled Telling the Tale - an apt summary of a composer whose work constitutes a joyous celebration of the limitless potential of narrative, and demands that we acknowledge universal resonances within the multiplicity of myths, sagas and folklore that form the basis of both western and eastern culture.

More than 300 intellectuals and clerics visiting Saudi Arabia for its annual two-week folklore extravaganza filed into the crown prince's residential palace in eastern Riyadh to pay homage, give speeches, ask questions, recite poems, eat and pray.