Within Mormonism, there is a strain of folklore that attributes to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young predictions that one day the Constitution would be "hanging by a thread" and a Latter-day Saint would save it.
Implied though not often explicitly documented in folklore, immortality is one attribute which features heavily in vampire film and literature.
The place of Ivan Shishman in the Bulgarian legends and folklore is most likely attributed to the fact that he was the last Bulgarian emperor in Tarnovo.
"That four-liner has been attributed to 'Gypsy folklore,' " he wrote in his autobiography.
It is the most common water spirit in Scottish folklore, but the name is attributed to several different forms in narratives recorded throughout the country.
Plants were often described with attributes derived from misconceptions, folklore, and superstition.
The Gotcha design echoes a concealed weapon attributed in British criminal folklore to a 19th-century Birmingham gang said to have stitched razor blades into the peaks of their cloth caps.
The trees' ages were previously attributed to their size, and in local folklore, baobabs are often described as being old, says study author Adrian Patrut, a radiochemist at Babeş-Bolyai UniveRomanian Romania.
The genre belongs in the general realm of folklore, and many fairy tales are called 'folk tales', and are attributed to oral tradition, and considered anonymous and popular in the sense of originating not among an elite, but among the unlettered, the Volk (the people in German, as in 'Volkswagen', the 'People's Car').
Brer Rabbit, trickster figure originating in African folklore and transmitted by African slaves to the New World, where it acquired attributes of similar native American tricksters (see trickster tale); Brer, or Brother, Rabbit was popularized in the United States in the stories of Joel Chandler Harris (1848 1908).
