Sentences with phrase «local folklore»

Creature (Unrated) Cajun Country horror flick about an ex-Navy Seal (Mehcad Brooks) who vacations with a group of friends in a backwoods region of Louisiana in the face of local folklore about a fabled swamp monster that's half - man and half - alligator.

While lurid tales are often recounted in local folklore of other outrageous rituals enacted, very little remaining information or evidence exists of the activities of the Askeaton Hellfire.

Nioh's real - world historical foundations, folded around local folklore in the form of the yokai enemies and allies, also represents an intriguing mix of the relatable and fantastical.

Evenings will be spent relaxing around the campfire while listening to your guides spin tales and recount local folklore.

The Legend: Local folklore describes a traditional Buddhist pilgrimage that circled a small peak ringed by lake terraces.

Over the course of their last weekend there and in the pursuit of memorializing local folklore, Claire and Luke set up a webpage touting the inn's supernatural qualities and go about capturing footage with which to occupy bandwidth.

Local folklore tells of a «wandering island» in the North Pacific that drifts and disappears, but has been spotted by various ship's crews over the years.

She begins her journey in Nendaz where she takes part in the annual Alphorn Festival — a festival devoted to local folklore with the largest gathering of alphorns in the world.

Local folklore says that there was a wealthy old man who used to bathe there by pouring the gold coins over himself like water.

Crowned by its brooding Abbey, the town is famous as the setting of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which incorporated local folklore to heighten the spooky tale.

Tanavoli is widely recognized as the father of Iran's modern sculpture movement and a founder of the Saqqakhaneh movement, a form of modern Iranian art that borrows from local folklore and religious iconography.

The artwork questions about one West Java's local folklore who had a similarity with a folklore written by Aesop also other folklore around the world.

But if it lived long enough to confront the first human settlers, that might explain why the fossa looms large in local folklore — and why it still terrifies the Malagasy.

Exhibitions to date include Change The World Or Go Home, which questioned the role of the artist within contemporary culture; Heartlands, which united artists interested in the countryside and its relationship with British national identity; and most recently The Stone of Folly, which used local Neolithic burial site Arthurs Stone as the basis for exploring ideas around local folklore and forgotten histories through works that overlap notions of fantastical narrative and shifting materiality.

Plainspoken and witty, it qualifies as social history, film theory, personal reverie, architectural history and criticism, a bittersweet meditation on automotive transport, a critical history of mass transit in southern California, a wisecracking compilation of local folklore, «a city symphony in reverse,» and a song of nostalgia for lost neighborhoods such as Bunker Hill and unchronicled lifestyles such as those of locals who walk or take buses.

How does Marie use the local folklore to assist Thomas in dealing with his sense of loneliness and fear?

At least according to local folklore, Martin Luther King Jr..

A victim of a violent post-apartheid attack narrates from beyond the grave Miranda Sherry's unnerving debut novel Black Dog Summer, named for the «black dog» as an ill omen in local folklore.

In one of my 2014 titles, the story hinges around a book of local folklore, so the companion novella will be the folklore book itself.

According to the local folklore, Mr. Jagger himself stayed in a stunning Kuta beach villa.

According to local folklore, Mount Batur used to be called Gunung Lebah.

Much like «Twin Peaks,» the murder casts a spotlight on Greenvale's sinister underbelly caused by a mysterious event that occurred fifty years in the past, as well as a local folklore legend about an axe murderer who attacks victims when it rains.

Idris will show a series of vibrant paintings representing a dialogue of self - inspiration, local folklore and regional myths.

One example of local folklore is printed on the postcard in this work, telling the story of a rivalry between the towns of Malborough and Devizes in which the people of Malborough solicited the devil to drop a hill on Devizes.

Howsham Hall, near Malton, North Yorkshire, boasts five reception rooms and seven bedroom suites and is for sale at $ 10.65 million CAD, but according to local folklore, there are strings attached.