Didn't you know there was something better in the world than grubbing after musty old tribes and customs and folk-songs?

"Half the folk-lore of the North has to do with the crow (or raven)," the priest went on.

" Very soon, however, the children are ready for the time-honoured fairy-tale or folk-tale.

As Armenia was the highroad between Asia and Europe, these old stories and folk-plays show the influence of migrating and invading people.

All the folk-ways of Niggertown were utterly topsyturvy.

It's a Russian folk-dance my mother taught me the first year we were in this country.

Folk art is, indeed, the oldest of the aristocracies of thought, and because it refuses what is passing and trivial,

The verse offered in that book was drawn from nursery rhymes and from a few of the great masters of poetical form; the prose was furnished by a selection of proverbs, some of the simplest folk stories, and two passages, closing the book, from the Old and New Testaments.

"Folk-medicine," p. 202

The little folks animal story book. Artists: Margaret Campbell Hoopes, Bess Goe Willis & William A. Roach.

R86922, 26Nov51, Theodore Presser Co. (PWH) Young folks opera gems.

In the songs often whole verses, nearly always the refrains, are from older folk poetry.

HUGHES, HATCHER. Ruint, a folk comedy in four acts.

Triangles and cymbals, folk tunes and classic pieces arranged for children's rhythm band with piano accompaniment.

"I bet I spell as well as any o' the folks thet takes the paper.

But doubtless the real reason for the hard division of epic poetry into two classes, and for the presumed inferiority of "literary" to "authentic," lies in the application of that curiosity among false ideas, the belief in a "folk-spirit."

Four folk games.

The universal folk songster for home, school and community.

I dremp' las' night dey wuz close ter han', and I hears de w'ite folks talkin' ter deyse'ves 'bout it.

The folk culture of Yucatan.

In the times before the Norman conquest, if not before the completed union of England under Edgar, the shire-mote or county assembly, though in theory still a folk-mote or primary assembly, had shrunk into what was virtually a witenagemote or assembly of the most important persons in the county.

COSQUIN, EMMANUEL, a French folk-lorist, and author of "Popular Tales of Lorraine," in the introduction to which he argues for the theory that the development as well as the origin of such tales is historically traceable to India; b. 1841.

White children played together then cause it was a long ways between white folks house, and colored children raised up wid em.

Macpherson's "Fingal," alleged to be a translation from the ancient Gaelic poet Ossian, had appeared in 1760; Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," a collection of folk-ballads and rude verse-romances such as the common people cherished but critics had long refused to consider as poetry, was published in 1765.

Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS