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British folklore constitutes the folklore of Britain, and includes topics such as the region's legends, recipes, and folk beliefs. British folklore includes English folklore, Irish folklore, Scottish folklore and Welsh folklore.[1]

  1. ^ See discussion in, for example, Chainey 2018: 7-9.

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British folklore

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British folklore constitutes the folklore of Britain, and includes topics such as the region's legends, recipes, and folk beliefs. British folklore includes...

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European folklore

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American folklore. British Folklore English folklore Anglo-Saxon paganism Estonian folklore Finnish folklore Lithuanian folklore Scandinavian folklore Celtic...

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Folklore

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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...

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English folklore

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English folklore consists of the myths and legends of England, including the English region's mythical creatures, traditional recipes, urban legends, proverbs...

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Matter of Britain

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Britannica article "Arthurian Legend". Arthurian Folklore - a website detailing Welsh Arthurian folklore Arthurian Resources: King Arthur, History and the...

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Ronald Hutton

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December 1953) is an English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion, and modern paganism. A professor at the...

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Pixie

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or pigsie in parts of Cornwall and Devon) is a mythical creature of British folklore. Pixies are speculated to be particularly concentrated in the high...

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The Folklore Society

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"great team" in Richard Dorson's now long outdated 1967 history of British folklore, late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the...

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Irish folklore

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Irish folklore (Irish: béaloideas) refers to the folktales, balladry, music, dance and mythology of Ireland. It is the study and appreciation of how people...

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Taylor Swift albums discography

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Folklore". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 20, 2022. "British album certifications – Taylor Swift – Folklore". British Phonographic...

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Scottish folklore

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Scottish folklore (Scottish Gaelic: Beul-aithris na h-Alba) encompasses the folklore of the Scottish people from their earliest records until today. Folklorists...

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Folklore studies

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Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology...

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Witch ball

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JSTOR 4116804. Gardner, Gerald Brosseau (June 1942). "British Charms, Amulets and Talismans". Folklore. 53 (2): 95–103. doi:10.1080/0015587x.1942.9718298...

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British big cats

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In British folklore and urban legend, British big cats refers to the subject of reported sightings of non-native, typically large felids feral in the United...

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Green Man

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figure from British folklore’, as the Royal Household has proclaimed, but a European import.' "foliate head". A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford Reference)...

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Three Witches

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and Ireland. Other possible sources, apart from Shakespeare, include British folklore, contemporary treatises on witchcraft as King James VI of Scotland's...

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Heavy Horses

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Songs from the Wood (1977) and Stormwatch (1979). In contrast to the British folklore-inspired lyrical content found on Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses...

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Harry Potter influences and analogues

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taken horrible liberties with folklore and mythology, but I'm quite unashamed about that, because British folklore and British mythology is a totally bastard...

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John Bull

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the British Isles John Bull's Other Island Sawney Brother Jonathan Uncle Sam Marianne Johnny Canuck Britannia, the female personification of Britain. William...

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And did those feet in ancient time

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according to British folklore scholar A. W. Smith, "there was little reason to believe that an oral tradition concerning a visit made by Jesus to Britain existed...

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Ogopogo

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In Canadian folklore, the Ogopogo is a lake monster said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Some scholars have charted the entity's...

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Folklore of the United States

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American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It...

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