Sentence examples for elements of folklore from inspiring English sources

Toni Morrison often writes mythic or near-mythic stories that incorporate elements of folklore, the supernatural, and the mystical.

Tamsin and the Deep takes elements of folklore and replays them in the setting of a council estate in rural Cornwall.

"The Robber Bridegroom," for example, incorporates elements of folklore, fairy tales, classical myths and legends of the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace, the road of pioneer days that stretched from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville.

The Taxidermist's Daughter is a jeu d'esprit in which ghosts and ghoulish patriarchal secrets, estranged female psyches and tumultuous bird-life coexist in a compulsively readable yarn with elements of folklore and beast fable.

The pared-down tenets of post-minimalism form a scaffolding onto which she grafts elements of folklore and fairy tales, an array of decorative references and her continuing exploration of the roles of women in literature, history and life.

Imaginative prose was more popular; it consisted of developments of Fenian or romance themes from Irish and foreign medieval literature mingled with elements of folklore and of the fabliau (a short metrical tale).

Another element of folklore favored by Kripke was the story of Robert Johnson, which he focused on in his first screenplay as a writer.

"It moves from reality to Bedouin fantasy world where there are elements of history, folklore and myth".

He painted the street sellers, fishermen, pubs, kebab shops and tea gardens, blending the everyday with surreal elements of Anatolian folklore and mythology.

Whatever their origins, however, the chronicles do offer accounts of Yermak's campaigns and related information, along with elements of popular folklore.

"On the one hand it is a kind of Breton version of Manet's famous painting Olympia," says Thomson. "On the other there is a layering of symbolism and elements of Breton folklore, with the fox as the malign seducer".