Quotes about Folklore

Oh, but there are, Marilla," cried Anne eagerly. "I know people who have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year. You know Charlie Sloane's grandmother wouldn't tell a story for anything. She's a very religious woman. And Mrs. Thomas's father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

A proverb and a byword among all people.

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.