Sentence examples for western folklore from inspiring English sources

Director Robert Altman used Newman effectively in his spoof on American western folklore, Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), and again in the controversial Quintet (1979), a futuristic saga.

With a dark night, ghostly apparitions and sexual undercurrent, it had many Victorian gothic hallmarks, and it shared the common Western folklore theme of being spirited off and ravished by an otherworldly creature.

Swearengen deserved what was surely coming to him – indeed one hopes that, before the plug was pulled on the show, he was destined for the same one that befell him in Western folklore: cleft in twain by a freight train.

Faust, also called Faustus, or Doctor Faustus, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.

Experts on western folklore have suggested that dragonflies were named for their dizzying aerial acrobatics, which were thought by Europeans in the Middle Ages to be the devil's work.

The title is a reference to the sandman, a character from Western folklore who makes children sleep.

There are many institutes of higher learning, such as the Academy of Arts, comprising the higher institutes of ballet, cinema, theatre, Arab music, Western music, folklore, art criticism, and child care.

The cultural synthesis that forms Cabo Verdean artistic tradition is notable in the rich body of oral narratives known as Nho Lobo tales, for example, which include the characters of Ti Lobo and Chibinho, both of whom have their counterparts in western African folklore.

The title is derived from Western European folklore and refers to a creature a "changeling"—left by fairies in place of a human child.

In contrast to Western medicine, traditional folklore based Eastern medicine is generally based upon the use of extracts from natural sources that consist of multiple components.

The species has a largely negative reputation in both Western culture and African folklore.