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I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.
Brie Larson
Faith
Safe Place
Comedy
Action
Think
Films
Drama
Types
Those
Folklore
Give
Allow
Mythology
Feel
Safe
Sort
Question
Questions
Up
Different
Movie
Bigger
Place
Interested
Us
Really
Pop
Action Movie
Different Types
Why
Here
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
Ellie Goulding
Music
You
Achieve
Example
Mountains
Type
Kind
Folk
Running
Folk Music
Folklore
More
Both
Perfect
Perfect Example
Could
Through
Obsessed
Like
Countryside
Forests
Canada
Bands
Listen
Wanted
Woods
Lakes
Fields
Boards
Really
Aspects
Electronic
Electronic Music
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft
All Races
Folklore
Archaic
Cosmic
Sacred
Writings
Most
Terror
Ballads
Races
Ingredient
Appears
Earliest
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
Alan Dundes
Myth
Legend
Folklore
Superstition
Study
Particular
Genres
Ballad
Proverb
Etc
Riddle
Largely
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Alan Dundes
Analysis
Collect
Must
Folklore
About
Above
Data
Write
Merely
Also
Course
Readings
Material
Context
Method
Lecture
Items
Texts
Theory
Based
Gather
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
Folklore
Only
Academic
Identity
Courses
Years
Taught
Many
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Alan Dundes
Family
Interviewing
Project
Consists
Members
Collection
Folklore
Term
Friends
Manage
Family Members
Anyone
Fieldwork
Create
Persuade
Serve
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Alan Dundes
Myself
Class
Three
Insist
Reading
Become
Hundred
Collections
Running
Folklore
More
Student
Over
Look
Fairly
Learn
Although
Because
Tall
Always
Years
Order
Much
Forward
Large
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
Alan Dundes
Research
Other
Paper
Folklore
More
Term
Involving
Courses
Than
Fieldwork
Require
Original
Why
I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.
Alan Dundes
Grateful
Be Grateful
Find
Folklore
Never
Became
Cease
Professional
Challenging
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
Alan Dundes
Believe
Unless
Neither
Folklore
Something
Come
Piece
Audience
Nor
Articulate
Might
Meaning
Means
Transmitted
Speaker
Even
I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.
Cullen Bunn
Youth
Gift
Wild
Ghosts
Definitely
Kind
Telling
Folklore
About
Had
Adventure
Liked
Always
Came
His
Personal
Stories
Full
Who
Dad
Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
David Hewson
Great
Rich
Birds
Local
Churches
Solitary
Borders
Folklore
Marsh
Daunting
Remains
Occasionally
Odd
Times
Just
Flat
Romney
Coastal
England
Desert
Kent
Last
Medieval
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
Eric Kripke
Folklore
Lifelong
Had
Obsession
American
Legends
Urban
Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.
Holly Black
Death
Art
Nature
Rich
Wild
Folklore
Different
Stories
Explore
Associated
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.
James Black
Family
Back
Out
Folklore
Could
Never
Check
Hamlet
Scottish
Wanted
The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
John Vane
Today
Knowledge
World
Tomorrow
Will
Made
Research
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Folklore
Arising
New
Around
Scientific
Years
Discoveries
Discovery
Accumulate
Being
Serendipity
Now
Based
Basic
Basic Research
Medicines
My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
Jonathan Maberry
Action
Teens
Ruin
Books
Topics
Joe
Folklore
Trilogy
Classic
Martial
Martial Arts
Horror
Thrillers
Adult
Written
Adventure
Tales
Dead
Nonfiction
Pine
Arts
Stories
Rot
Deep
Series
Novels
Zombie
Night
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.
Juliet Marillier
Style
Inevitable
Think
Would
Folklore
Small
Small Child
Mythology
Development
Since
Child
Influence
Stories
Loved
Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
Laura Amy Schlitz
Kindness
Justice
Natural
Cruelty
Mercy
Needless
Side
Moral
Folklore
About
Indignation
Feel
Instinct
Towards
Underdog
Always
Children
Center
Acts
I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.
Marie Brennan
Love
Own
Characters
Folklore
See
More
Prophecy
Short
Doom
Where
Stories
Short Stories
Novels
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
Maxine Peake
Films
Gigs
Folklore
Inspired
Yellow
Clouded
Sea
English
Jean
Swing
Vintage
Early
There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
Mike Mignola
Wonderful
Will
Whatever
Just Be
Hell
Painting
Monsters
Drawing
Drawn
Kind
Folklore
Mythology
Retirement
Stuff
Longer
Most
Comics
Doing
Any
Just
Want
Plan
Theoretically
Creatures
Ton
Loaded
Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.
Ming-Na Wen
Family
Fight
Girl
Sacrifice
Country
Important
Herself
Willing
Folklore
Fearless
About
Join
She
Chinese
Much
Who
Her
Cared
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the initial years develops compassion and mutual respect for each other's skills.
Mohit Chauhan
Education
Respect
Compassion
Vice Versa
Think
Other
Folklore
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Pockets
Could
Develops
Sing
Versa
Years
Scotland
Children
Vice
Skills
Who
Initial
Each
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
Nancy Willard
Heart
Three
Down
Took
Teller
Folklore
Armenian
Fell
Wrote
Heaven
Listener
Pity
Story
Who
Awarded
Apple
Apples
Third
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