When were "air quotes" first used? - Mythology & Folklore Stack …
2018年4月17日 · Those aren't modern air-quotes (the skit involves him reading a passage from a book while drawing all the punctuation marks individually in the air and making silly noises) but it seems relevant. He'd draw an open quote, read the quoted text, then draw the close quote, rather than simultaneously making both quote marks throughout the quote.
folklore - Were the grottoes of the Mitcham Fair in South London …
2019年6月25日 · In Mitcham in South London, children often used to build "grottoes" out of pebbles, pieces of broken pottery, candles, and sometimes shells, flowers, or pieces of mirror.
When was the first known account of the Tooth Fairy?
2018年5月8日 · Imaginatively linking the mouse to the sun, they attempted to explain at one stroke the three commonest methods of tooth disposal: whether the child hurled the tooth into the air, threw it into the fire, or offered it to a mouse, the common element was sun worship.
When did chicken become a synonym of cowardice? - folklore
2019年4月14日 · When were "air quotes" first used? 5. Did tales about a house made of sweets predate Hansel and Gretel? 7.
What is the provenance of the reindeer antlers that are used in the ...
2018年2月17日 · Every year in September a "horn dance" is held in the village of Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, England, a ceremony mentioned for example in J G Frazer's The Golden Bough. There are recorded refere...
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When did Korrigans become part of the Breton folklore?
Korrigans are part of the modern Breton folklore, as water spirits. Some sources give them an origin in ancient Gaul (Thomas Keightley's 1892 "The Fairy Mythology" for instance).
Were there any gods Floridian Tribes recognized? - folklore
2020年9月29日 · 1 Dickinson's full account of his time as being taken captive by the Floridians can be read here.. 2 From the accounts of missionaries such as Rogel, it seems that the Native Americans, or at least the Floridians, had great difficulty grasping the concept of the Christian one god and the Christian concept of any other divine force being "of the devil".
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norse - Are there two Mímirs? - Mythology & Folklore Stack …
Heimdall blows loudly, his horn is in the air. Odin speaks with Mímr ’s head. Apart from the obscure kenning "sons of Mímr ", which is typically rendered as 'giants' but whose meaning is still very much open to debate, here we have a character called Mímr , whose head is strongly implied by the wording to be separated from the body, and ...