Sentences with phrase «folk tales like»

Though these ideals have long since faded, they are perpetuated by folk tales like Black Cat's Message and Wait Until Emmet Comes (which feature supernatural black cats disguised as demons) and commercialized as companions of Halloween moons.

Folk tales like Black Cat's Message and Wait Until Emmet Comes and images of black cats with witches, in graveyards and under glowing moons still do play on residual fears about black cats.

Books Also some good books to read might be some of the American Folk Tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, or Brer Rabbit.

Not exact matches

One could only hope that either found themselves stuck in a tree in a sack, and like the truth of the Grimm's folk tale, both would replace themselves with the earnest truth seeker.

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

Nicholas, Superstition I can accept but to SERIOUSLY believe there can ever be any TRUTH in a mere shirt number being the reason some players succeed and others don't, belongs with astrology, lucky charms, old wives tales and the like as mediaeval claptrap believed by flat earthers and other dimwitted folk.

«Yes, my experience is like the Ash Lad's in the Norwegian folk tale, «The Princess who was Never at a Loss for Words» — everything you've brought with you on your way will benefit you, as long as you have enough imagination to use it.»

Whether it is a specific tribe, like Prabal Gurung's Asgarda tribe inspiration; a region, like Matthew Williamson's Northern European folk costume muse; a time period, like Gary Graham's modernization of Renaissance and Middle Ages themes; or literature, like the sugary sweet RED Valentino Grimm fairy tale vibe, every iteration translates into an ornate and unique item that is fit and ready for any wardrobe.

I definitely took a liking to this little tale of rural folk exercising their rights to be a little enterprising at the expense of a large financial corporation, and of the twists and turns as time unravels all their all - too - human motives.

Rumors about this game started up a couple of weeks ago, and tonight's announcement confirms it: The folks behind other good adventure game series like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands will be tackling Peter Quill's gang of rogues.

Dark River is the sort of tale of farming folk that makes Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels look like light comedy.

Switching to another genre, writer / director Victor Salva enjoyed a measure of box office success with Jeepers Creepers, an eerie if rather jumbled tale of two very stupid high school grads hunted by a demonic, bat - like creature which emerges every 23 years to hunt the most fear - prone folks of a small mid-western town.

Some is - like all the best folk tales - amplified social commentary and morality discussion by way of the extreme.

Opening with the 13 - year - old Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) fiddling with his wand beneath a blanket, the theme of self - discovery unfolds along jagged, de-romanticized lines like the rough rhythms of an Irish lyric or, more to the heart of the matter, a Mexican folk tale, all of blood, dirt, and heroic fervour.

But for folks here in this quirky swath of tech - start - ups, shopping malls and renovated artist studios, the citywide plan has proven to be less of a solution and more of cautionary tale, a lesson in how hard it can be to take a community schools dream and turn it into a workable reality, even when almost everyone likes the idea.

«I often work in obsessive series,» she notes, «retelling the story over and over much like a folk tale is folded over the mouth many times.»

Inspired by traditional folk tales from Russia and beyond, Ukrainian paper artist Eugenia Zoloto creates these gorgeous hand - cut works of art, which combine dream - like images of humans and animals living in harmony.

I would like to have a name with a cultural reference, that is character names from older literature or folk tales.