Quotes about Folklore

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

— GK Chesterton

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— James Carse

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Martin Luther