Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
...comment on your statement that many folk dance steps are as old as "all get-out." Actually they are older I think. I am unable to place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...
Above all, here the lonely Führer can become even more lonely than Nazi lore has pictured him to be. Rumor has it that he built the Adlerhorst as a mausoleum. Other theories have it that here he intends to write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell...
...ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth of folk art in America is of course that the country is too large for a single folk lore that is all-inclusive; and also that the average American person is too mechanical and too wrapped up in industry to have the mind necessary for this type...
Magic. At Corsica the French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...