In 1911 Ansky organized a large-scale ethnographic expedition to gather Jewish folklore, songs, melodies, manuscripts, and books.
Ivan Shishman is one of the few rulers to be mentioned in the Bulgarian folklore songs and, as in the legends, is a subject of mystification.
Numerous references to the country's flora appear in folklore, song and poetry.
Plants feature heavily in Gaelic and Scottish folklore, song and poetry.
Young touches all too briefly on the Irish folklore and songs that inspired some of Yeats's great poems, as well as the so-called Celtic Twilight movement in British classical music.
Laveau has often been featured in novels, folklore and songs, but in a reflection of how much more seriously she is now being taken, two scholars have recently completed separate academic biographies that portray her as a major cultural and social figure.
Mt. Kenya features a lot in the Ameru folklore and songs.
Use of folklore and songs relaying the messages of what had happened at this Prepcom were suggested as ways to reach children not served by traditional media.
It took Jones 20 years to compose the book, and the method he finally chose not only blended form (the epic poem and the novel), but also content: the text is strewn with fragments from Welsh dark ages poetry, pagan folklore, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Malory, Shakespeare (Henry V especially), Milton, Coleridge, Browning, ancient ballads, rugby songs and Lewis Carroll's poetry.
At the spiritual heart of the country is the magnificent east-central city of Berlin, which rose phoenixlike from the ashes of World War II and now, after decades of partition, is the capital of a reunified Germany, and the Rhine River, which flows northward from Switzerland and is celebrated in visual art, literature, folklore, and song.
Across the centuries, they have been stitched into our Britishness as the stuff of folklore, poetry, song – from Robert Herrick's account of Corinna going a-Maying to the belief that eating primroses would allow a person to see fairies, via Shakespeare's talk in Hamlet of "A violet in the youth of primy nature,/ Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/ The perfume and suppliance of a minute".
