Sentences with phrase «by folklore»

Inspired by folklore, zoology, 80's fantasy films, and monsters, this team of talented artists gives life to creatures that had previously only existed in our imaginations.

Join us in Old Town Alexandria each second Friday of the month for a concert sponsored by The Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW)...

Inspired by the folklore and mythology of her hometown and heritage, Suarez has created a world rich with symbolism and history contained within her paintings.

Players control a firefly in this point and click game inspired by folklore and fairy tales, also described as an exploration visual novel.

Both melancholy and thoughtful, Where The Water Tastes Like Wine paints a fascinating historical picture embellished by folklore, where the population is caught in dire times that cloud the American Dream.

It's no secret that many of Gaiman's novels, like American Gods and Anansi Boys, are highly influenced by folklore and myths.

Taron Egerton plays the emerald sharpshooter in the Lionsgate - produced origin story, due March 2018, and Alex Kurtzman and Justin Lin have a CBS series, inspired by the folklore legend, in the works.

Inspired a bit by a folklore tale about children - snatching trolls who secretly hide in the forest, the film is about a foster family that realizes something is wrong with one of them.

He notes, for example, that only about one - third of the stories that Tehrani included in his analysis are classified by folklore scholars as belonging to the Little Red Riding Hood tradition.

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Water is also a symbol in company folklore; for many years Optiva's manufacturing plant was separated from the rest of the company's operations by a creek that periodically flooded over, making employees» treks back and forth, well, an adventure.

By Doug Stephens In 2011, in what has now become retail folklore, Ron Johnson, one of the brains behind the Apple Store, was hired to resuscitate the American department store chain JCPenney.

The Bible for centuries has been an assertion, initiated by ancient man, to lend credibility to religion and as assertion to lend credibility to magic of man's folklore experiences — interfacing with a higher being.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

Dalit theologians also need to widen the definition of «texts,» given the oral emphasis in Dalit Tradition By probing into Dalit folklore and songs they are likely to unearth extra textual sources for doing Dalit theology.

Did you know that that story was adapted by Christians from Pagan folklore from the Sumerians?

To the student who has perhaps come to these writings from studies in folklore or fairy tales and who is now «disillusioned» by their long - windedness, we might say that no religious text is easy and entertaining reading.

But it is enlivened also by wonderfully imaginative folklore, riddles, oracles, and fables.

Here's another truth about evolution: the god of the Mormons is a twist on the god of mainstream Christians, who is a twist on the god of Israel who was based on other gods of ancient folklore and created by ancient man in man's image.

In view of how it grew by stages, it is not surprising that it contains fascinating folklore and a primitive, though dramatic and spiritually meaningful, explanation of the creation, the coming of sin into the world, and the emergence of toil and pain and strife.

Perhaps they were considered, as often in Jewish folklore, to be «materializations» of demons, or as possessed by them — the wild djinn of the waste, with Satan as their owner and prince.

Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 247 pages, $ 29.50 It is part of academic folklore to defend philosophers against unskilled readings by nonspecialists.

Some of it is collected in «Old Sister's Advice to Her Daughters,» in The Book of Negro Folklore, edited by Langston Hughes and Ama Bontemps (Dodd Mead 1958).

Ideologies and superstitions, concentration - camp utopias and interplanetary folklore occupy the void left by the withdrawal of the Christian soul and scientific humanism, by the ebbing of Christian intellect and the elitist encystation of men (and women) of science in their special languages, waterproof compartments.

xtianity it ancient myth and folklore, made up by men over centuries to gain power.

Their adventure is a great introduction to Celtic folklore as well, similar to another recent film by the studio, The Secret of the Kells.

«49 He explains it by the fact that the monks were recruited from all classes of people and that they were acquainted with a wide range of story material, folklore, legend, etc., which they sought when converted to Buddhism to make use of for Buddhist purposes.

Inspired by an ancient Celtic myth, the «Hawk of Achill» spot is set in a small fishing village on Achill, a rugged island — steeped in folklore and myth — off the coast of Ireland.

In Italian folklore, Puttanesca was served by the ladies of the evening in order to allure their gentlemen friends into their arms.

Perhaps we went wrong by ignoring old folklore, according to which bees are both intelligent and potentially spiteful.

In Indiana folklore the Daly saga already approaches the Bob Knight chair - throwing episode, and it teaches that Hoosier golf tournaments are won by brash youths of Bunyanesque strength and mysterious origin.

Greaves wrote himself into England folklore by shining on the international stage, helping himself to 44 goals in 57 appearances for the Three Lions.

In August of the same year Collison entered West Ham folklore by playing in the infamous Millwall League Cup encounter just a few days after his father's fatal motorcycle accident.

Which was the first major domestic trophy won by the club for 26 years that would forever write the name Roberto Di Matteo into folklore.

His progress was disrupted by a severe leg break but he recovered to become an important squad member for the Gunners, scoring two FA Cup final winning goals to secure his place in the club's folklore.

Meet Lydia Meiying — a Manchester - based illustrator inspired by the natural world and the colours, prints and folklore of her South East Asian heritage

And despite common folklore, you can't change its shape by strapping something across your baby's belly, or by taping a quarter over it.

A pocket diaper has a folklore tale surrounding it that says cloth diapering was revolutionized by it's creation.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

It is hard to argue against the fact that countries are influenced in their strategic thinking and security policies by historical narratives of their respective national «cultures», which have sources in history, a shared sense of identity, folklore and cultural heritage.

Although they have been the source of folklore and puzzlement since antiquity, they have largely been overlooked by scientists.

THE distinguished American botanist and Amazonian ethnologist, Darren Posey, now based at the University of Oxford, has been leading a campaign to allocate intellectual property rights to indigenous people if their folklore is helpful to modern medicine and if the plants they collect to cure ailments are exploited by Western pharmaceutical companies.

According to folklore, beans were considered one of the «three sisters» of traditional agricultural cropping methods used by Native Americans, who inter-cropped maize, squash, and beans to reap the most of each plant's benefits.

As is often the case with ancient medicines, castor oil was dismissed for many years by the modern scientific community as being mere folklore.

The vitality that oysters give is well known to the traditional cultures which live off of foods by the sea, and to modern lore that knows of the connection between oysters and folklore surrounding fertility.

Hundreds of medical and scientific studies confirm what folklore has always known: Fermented foods help people stay healthy by boosting their immune system.

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A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

Each story inspired by First Nation folklore.

Family folklore has it that his great great - great - grandmother, Mamá Imelda, had her heart smashed to smithereens by a selfish guitarist who abandoned his family to pursue music and so not a semiquaver is to be played or listened to in the house.

The Winchester Mystery House, as it's known, is a legendary tourist attraction (according to San Jose folklore, it really is said to be haunted by the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles).