Sentence examples for folklore where from inspiring English sources
Mr. Margulies's expertly imagined Hetchman belongs to the parallel universe of folklore, where people are not lifelike, but bigger, stranger and realer than life.
Mermaids and mermen are also characters of Philippine folklore, where they are locally known as sirena and siyokoy respectively.
Vodou is often misunderstood by Westerners who come to it through pop culture or folklore, where it is often tinged with racist stereotypes and legends.
The first wave of sports biographies were nearly extension of folklore where athletes are these mythical figures who just happened to walk among us mere mortals.
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Dylan wrote about Young in his 1962 song "Talking Folklore Centre" where he stresses the importance of the centre as a place where musicians and songwriters could get together to share their inspirations and experiences.
But Gág, as Marcus said, "came from a folklore tradition where that sort of dark storytelling was taken as a matter of course".
In school, you're singing '15 miles on the Erie Canal,' and here's 'I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.' " During college at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Spitzer put his welter of musical interests to use both at the campus radio station, WXPN, and in the folklore department, where he took a course in cowboy songs and did research among the Italian-Americans in South Philadelphia.
The movie's pessimism is extreme, but it feels rooted in the streets and folklore of Mexico City, where experience melds into legend and individual misfortune is part of life's infinite danger.
His cosmogony, if you can call it that, does evoke a backwoods America where folklore and reality collide, a realm evoked by the legend of Paul Bunyan and movies like "Fargo".
The threat of a stocking full of dark matter that, after all, is useful for leavening a warm winter fire or sketching a family portrait, pales in comparison to Christmas folklore in the Netherlands, where naughty children run the risk of being stuffed into a gunnysack and carted off to Spain.
