By this time, while he retains what folk-lorists call the "story-radical," he has reduced Boccaccio's epic to less than a quarter of its length, and improved it in details. ❋ Compiled By Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
In olden times the voice was the principal accompaniment of the dance, and these folk-lorists generally sing while dancing; but occasionally a fiddler or flautist plays for them, and becomes the leader in the dance. ❋ M. Pearson Thomson (N/A)
The book should be of great interest to scholars and folk-lorists, as well as to lovers of poetry, and to all who are interested in the old ❋ Michael F. J. McDonnell (N/A)
The Brothers Grimm, patriarchs alike as mythologists and folk-lorists, the Castor and Pollox of our studies, have proved this as regards the Teutonic nations, just as they showed us, by many a striking example, that in great part folk-lore was the mythology of to-day, and mythology the folk-lore of yesterday. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
To pay their respects to those not abroad at so early an hour, they would serenade them with the following lines, which, while connected with the "new water" tradition, contain much that is of doubtful interpretation, and are a fascinating puzzle for folk-lorists: -- ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
The subject is vast, and has not been thoroughly explored as yet, but the labours of historians and folk-lorists have made certain conclusions probable, and have produced hypotheses of great interest and fascination. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
Practices domestic in their purpose may indeed be transferred to the modern city, but it is the experience of folk-lorists that they seldom descend to the second generation. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
But as there are folk-lorists and folk-lorists, and the schools of Rabbi ❋ Unknown (1897)
Aucassin also; how the lovers were united; and how, after a comic interlude in the country of "Torelore," which could be spared by all but folk-lorists, the damsel is discovered to be daughter of the King of Carthage, and all ends in bowers of bliss. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Ever since -- almost exactly a hundred years ago -- the Grimms produced their Fairy Tale Book, folk-lorists have been engaged in making similar collections for all the other countries of Europe, outside ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)
Yet anthropologists and folk-lorists, 'agriologists' and 'Hottentotic' students, must regret that Mr. Max Muller did not state their general theory, as he understands it, fully and once for all. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
We must smile at Hirata's good faith in the changelessness of oral tradition; but I believe that folk-lorists would discover in the character of the older myths, intrinsic evidence of immense antiquity. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
{334} Miss Owen is well known to all folk-lorists as the first living authority on _Voodoo_. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
This is one of the class of stories known to folk-lorists as the Punchkin series. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
-- is not new: it will at once remind folk-lorists of certain practices charged against our old Norse invaders. ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)
