112 Quotes About Folklore

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.

I loved her, and a curse made me forget. But she came for me and broke the curse and now I must go.

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.

Memorable stories of every culture tell us what principles the citizenry saved their smiles for and shed their sorrowful tears lamenting.

Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two decades, history proclaimed in large bloody letters that ‘Kilroy woz ‘ere.

But Vasya never saw them when she was looking for them. They moved between one breath and the next, between one blink and another."- The Girl in the Tower

That car is a symbol of human oppression and greed. Sometimes it’s driven by a fallen nun, or a crooked priest. Perhaps even the Devil himself?

The wolf legends demanded immediate revenge. Groups of colonists entered the forest, killed the predators, and restored their mastery over nature in a day… the legends offered a quick solution: regeneration through violence

To overpower savagery one must lash out savagely. In their stories Euro-American colonists invented and broadcast a vision of wolves as threats to human safety. They then modeled their behavior on the ferocity they perceived in wolves. Thus folklore explains not only why humans destroyed wolves but why they did so with such cruel enthusiasm.