Sentence examples for much folklore from inspiring English sources

Most of the early writings on birds are more anecdotal than scientific, but they represent a broad foundation of knowledge, including much folklore, on which later work was based.

To record as much folklore and music as possible was a national project of retrieval and education, bringing music, with all its regional variations, into the kitchen or living-room.

Tristen insists that the myth, like so much folklore, must have some basis in fact, while Stephen, a diehard rationalist, is convinced the Blair Witch legend is nothing more than mass hysteria.

The Suttas, which contain both prose and verse, include sermons; stories about the Buddha, monks and nuns, and others contemporary with him as well as about their previous lives as human beings or animals (these incorporating much folklore); and many other things.

He grew up around "so much folklore that it was a direct influence, and I am still working from that place," Espinosa told the Miami Herald in 2003.

Known by a host of common names including common adder and common viper, adders have been the subject of much folklore in Britain and other European countries.

From that moment Vassily became a devotee of this new, spiritual craft: a weary village healer, yet without the ascetism of much eastern folklore.

Following from this legend, in much European folklore the wren has been described as the "king of the birds" or as a flame bearer.

Much like traditional folklore, modern myths are embellished or altered as they are retold.

Much of the folklore of Seneca Lake, in western New York, proceeds from a sense that its depths are poorly understood.

Kenyan literature includes a large body of oral and written folklore, much of the latter collected by British anthropologists.