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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folklifes
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Its coasters impress, food celebrates Appalachian traditions, and cinnamon bread has a cult following.
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Fawn says Brandon loves the traditions of his tribe.
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America has its own mythologies of masculine desire, and many of them are worse.
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His works are also challenging to date precisely, due in part to his displacement and transpacific migration, and the Spencer show reflects this by abandoning a chronological framework in favor of a thematic exploration of his own mythologies.
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The kallikantzaroi are a group of blind, black goblins who live underground during most of the year sawing at the world tree – a motif throughout various folklores that connects the heavens to the Earth.
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Valuations are myths more than science anyway.
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These myths arise for a purpose, for a need that already exists.
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Traditionally played on string instruments like the dulcimer, fiddle, and banjo, this distinctly twangy genre passed down religious hymns, ballads, and folktales through generations.
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Comprising more than 300 folktales and legends from northern Norway, including many from the coastal Sámi and the Skolt Sámi of eastern Finland, this anthology shares narratives told by fishers, farmers, reindeer herders, lay preachers and teachers.
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