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#folklore

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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.


Charles de Lint


#fairies #fantasy #folklore #faith

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.


Sarah Zettel


#easier #fantasy #folklore #i #internal

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.


Alan Dundes


#anthropology #course #folklore #forms #genres

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


#above #also #analysis #based #collect

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.


Terri Windling


#around #best #came #corner #fairy

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.


Terri Windling


#desert #folklore #i #long #long series

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.


Terri Windling


#folklore #galleries #go #masters #need

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.


Terri Windling


#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.


Diana Wynne Jones


#although #blurred #clear #colour #could

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.


Richard King


#basing #christianity #conspiracies #folklore #government






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