Toni Morrison often writes mythic or near-mythic stories that incorporate elements of folklore, the supernatural, and the mystical.
There was one previous running, in 1992, which passed quickly into folklore – or, at least, into that obscure appendix of folklore in which the legends of extreme endurance sports are chronicled.
The Dormen Theatre was founded in Istanbul in 1955 by Haldun Dormen; in the 1971 World Theatre season in London the company performed A Tale of Istanbul, a comedy that included elements of folklore, a puppet show, singing, and a belly dance.
That is a bit of folklore that Debra A. Zellner, a Montclair State University psychology professor, tried to prove or disprove by surveying American and Spanish men and women about their desire to eat chocolate.
Among them were sculptures of giant rats and Day-Glo-colored Madonnas that caught the blend of folklore fantasy and religious fervor that runs through German popular culture.
I've even spent hours poring over that very same "Dictionary of Folklore, Myth and Legend" that I have Charles consulting in Chapter 2. I figure in the world of "Margo Maloo," a lot of humanity's traditional lore about monsters is going to be loosely based on fact, but distorted by misunderstandings and endless retelling.
Paulina Chiziane wrote Balada de amor ao vento (1990), a novel that looks more realistically and less romantically at the African past and that blends the fantasy of folklore with realism.
By setting it in the days of pirates, and using the mandolin, which is the sort of instrument you could've taken to sea with you, I thought that might give it a kind of folklore thing, and that would add to the idea of it being firmly embedded in human history".
"Oh, we have a lot of folklore that involves identical twins.
He also came across a local bit of folklore that said: "When the dog meat is being simmered, even the gods become dizzy with hunger".
