Prince Twins Seven-Seven, a prominent Nigerian artist and leading representative of the Oshogbo School, whose brightly colored, intricately patterned paintings evoked the world of Yoruba folklore and religion, died on June 16 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
After creeping onto the Web in a viral marketing strategy built on a world of conjured folklore, the film played to sold-out theaters and made the covers of both Time and Newsweek.
It is generally accepted as part of world folklore that a mother on adrenaline can hoist the rear end of a car off the ground if it is endangering her child.
"Companies planning large scale projects now try to pre-empt problems with the supernatural world," says Terry Gunnell, professor of folklore at the University of Iceland.
Artist Lori Nelson paints today's tweens into a world of yetis and folklore-inspired ghouls.
It's set in a world where the storybook fables of folklore, books, and nursery rhymes are real and they've been displaced from their homelands, living amongst us in our "mundane" world.
Avedon's camera unquestionably lies, but it does so in such a poetic and ingratiating manner that the photographic fiction it produces has become a sort of folklore of the world in which fashionable elegance counts.
Influenced by folklorist Ken Goldstein, Izzy's first entrance into the Folk Revival world was by publishing a catalog of folklore books.
The article attempts to contribute to solving the urgent problem of the viability and functions of folklore in the modern world.
We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will.
