Sentence examples for important folklore from inspiring English sources

The wife of a senior government law officer, Mrs Araujo was the founder of the country's most important folklore festival.

He preserved a lot of important folklore passed down through oral tradition by writing them in his literary-nonfiction novels, including the 1941 classic "The Longhorns".

In 1818 he first published his Srpski rječnik ("Serbian Lexicon"), a Serbian-German-Latin dictionary containing 26,270 words and many important sidelights on folklore.

So for an unproven newcomer like Miss Araujo, who was only 17 when "Xica da Silva" began taping, the chance to play a figure so important in Brazilian folklore was both an unusual opportunity and a daunting challenge.

From his earliest years in America, Boas was an innovative and prodigiously productive scholar, contributing equally to statistical physical anthropology, descriptive and theoretical linguistics, and American Indian ethnology, including important studies of folklore and art.

The front — or obverse — includes an image representing "the miracle of the gulls," an important story in Mormon folklore in which seagulls are said to have suddenly appeared and eaten insects that were destroying the first crops Mormon settlers raised, a year after arriving in Utah in 1847.

These facts were widely known within hours of Oswald's arrest, and yet the theory that he was an agent who was directed, wittingly or not, by Communist handlers has never been an important part of the folklore of the Kennedy assassination.

The Andean condor is a national symbol of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and plays an important role in the folklore and mythology of the Andean regions.

It plays an important role in the folklore and mythology of the South American Andean regions, and has been represented in Andean art from c. 2500 BCE onward, and they are a part of indigenous Andean religions.

He was one of the organizers of the Czech-Slavic Folklore Exhibition, an important event in Czech culture at the end of 19th century.

Recognising that traditional folklores form an important aspect of the Orang Asli peoples' heritage and the central role that story-telling plays in their communities, the Ministry of Education and UNICEF have gathered 13 folklores from five Orang Asli ethnic groups, which will now be incorporated into the remedial teaching program to develop story-telling materials and books.