Gift book wisdom: Folklore says wearing coral earrings will attract men, and placing coral in the children's room will ensure future health and protection.... Guards against shark attack.
The results of this research don't always match received wisdom or playground folklore.
He didn't know any of the tribes' severe-weather folklore or survival strategies — the wisdom they must have built up over centuries on the Plains.
He is founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship and has authored many books, including Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words: Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature, and Mass Media (2008), Yes We Can: Barack Obamas Proverbial Rhetoric (2009), and International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology, two volumes (2009).
A good deal of symbolism from Mexican folklore and Aztec mythology inflects the painting — folk wisdom deemed a dead hummingbird an amulet to induce a lover's return.
To imagine a Chelm — the town inhabited, according to Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, entirely by fools — requires a presumption of general wisdom elsewhere, as the proper imagining of Heaven requires an earthly realm of sorrow.
This wisdom, said to be common knowledge, was superstitious folklore that my family wholly believed in.
A favorite introduction to African art is folklore involving Anansi the Spider, a trickster known for his great wisdom, said Beth B. Schneider, the museum's education director.
In Caged Bird, Mrs. Flowers encourages her to listen carefully to "Mother Wit", which Hagen defines as the collective wisdom of the African-American community as expressed in folklore and humor.
In the parlance of psychology, the birds exhibited neophobia, a fear of what is unfamiliar shiny or not.Down goes another bit of wisdom about animals, then, that the authors chalk up to folklore writ into popular consciousness.
