Traditional Folklore Quotes

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.