English Folklore

'Crop circle counsellor' to Prince Charles, Mark Rylance also makes a superb BFG

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Jun 2016

My character says at one point that 'there was a time when we were gentry'; Melissa found that in English folklore there was a story that the giants fought with Boadicea against the Romans." He sees the giants as a sort of natural force, corrupted but not destroyed, that springs from the earth....

Juan Antonio Bayona's A Monster Calls gets a new trailer

Edit Empire 12 Apr 2016

A tree with a very particular set of branches, the Liam Neeson-voiced yew in A Monster Calls is a wonder of CG in this new trailer for Juan Antonio Bayona’s dark fantasy ... Expect this one to delve deeper into creepy English folklore, grief and the growing pains of school ... People ... ....

Leicester cast as freedom fighters against Premier League era’s iniquities

Edit The Guardian 06 Apr 2016

Perhaps this only proves that English football was a little slow to catch on to the way the game would be played in the future ... Leicester are not supposed to be in the Champions League bracket – the glitzy edifice at the top of modern football was almost purpose-built to keep them out – and one does not have to look very far into English folklore to find an affection for the plucky underdog who coolly outwits his alleged superiors....

Hungry for change

Edit Yahoo Daily News 21 Feb 2016

THE 2015 Global Hunger Index left a bittersweet taste for India ... The index is calculated each year by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based body that provides research-based policy solutions to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition in developing countries ... good on a massive scale ... IN ENGLISH folklore, Robin Hood is described as a heroic outlaw, who stole from the rich and gave to the poor ... Feeding India ... ....

Brief Encounter: is it still relevant at 70?

Edit The Guardian 02 Nov 2015

David Lean’s class-confronting 1945 classic about a terribly, terribly British (sort of) affair has forced our critic to think again. Related. In the mood for love. is Brief Encounter still the most romantic film ever?. For most of my life I have utterly scorned Brief Encounter ... Related ... There’s little new to be said about a movie that’s lived seven decades in the English folkloric bloodstream, but here’s what held me this time around ... ....

The terrifying story of the 'hell hound'

Edit BBC News 31 Oct 2015

It has cemented the place of these mythical beasts in English folklore, but how and why have accounts of their terrifying marauding spread so far and wide? ... "Living in Norfolk, it's probably the most prevailing piece of kids' scary folklore." ... Lorna Richardson, a researcher in public archaeology at the University of Umeå in Sweden, said folklore was often overlooked when assessing the importance of a landscape or place ... Top Stories ... ....

A Quick Guide to the Origin and History of Halloween

Edit About.com 11 Oct 2015

A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, 1996) and Steve Roud (The English Year, 2008, and A Dictionary of English Folklore, 2005), flatly reject the popular notion that the Church designated November 1st All Saints Day to "Christianize" the pagan Celtic holiday ... H ... J ... The English Year ... A Dictionary of English Folklore ... The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows." The American Folklore Center, Library of Congress, September 1982....

Paris Fashion Week SS 2016 Alexander McQueen: Ethereal dreamscape

Edit The Examiner 09 Oct 2015

As Alexander McQueen’s designs have almost become synonymous with fantasy and romance, it is completely expected that Spring Summer 2016 would bring nothing less than that. “There’s a bohemian elegance to the McQueen woman this season as Sarah Burton draws on the roots and myths of English folklore to bring together the mood of the collection,” is the description given to by AlexanderMcQueen.com. Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images ....

The Moth story workshops, public performance planned on campus (Indiana University Bloomington)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Oct 2015

(Source. Indiana University Bloomington) IUB Newsroom » The Moth story workshops, public performance planned on campus. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Moth is coming to Indiana University Nov. 2 to 4 to mentor students in storytelling ... Nov. 4 and the stories will begin at 7.30 p.m ... We'd love to hear stories from scientists, mathematicians and business majors just as much as from students in English and Folklore,' he said....

Emerging Australian artist Christian Thompson forges new path

Edit BBC News 21 Aug 2015

21 August 2015 ... While he was studying in Oxford in 2010, Thompson - one of the first of two Aboriginal Australians to attend the University of Oxford - caught his first sight of the English folk dance at an annual May Day celebration ... Thompson became interested in English folklore and customs like Morris dancing ... "It was the most surreal, cryptic, strange collision, of these two very old English cultural traditions," he told the BBC ... ....

Three Western myths about Japan

Edit BBC News 20 Aug 2015

20 August 2015. From the section Magazine ... "To find oneself suddenly in a world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale than with us - a world of lesser and seemingly kindlier beings, all smiling at you as if to wish you well - a world where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed… this is surely the realisation, for imaginations nourished with English folklore, of the old dream of a World of Elves ." ... 3 ... ....

THE INSIDER: Online philanderers’ worst nightmare

Edit Business Day 21 Jul 2015

ONE of the world’s best-known crooks is something of a Robin Hood character, apparently having a reputation for kindness much like the English folklore outlaw who is said to have stolen from the rich to help the poor, mainly in and around forests in Nottingham ... — old Shorty, the English translation of his nickname, was not short of generosity....

The one image that tells you everything you need to know about Bernie Sanders

Edit The Washington Post 20 Jul 2015

Bernie Sanders was in Arizona over the weekend, speaking before more than 11,000 supporters at a massive rally in downtown Phoenix. A look into that crowd saw several people hoisting the Sanders-as-Robin-Hood heads pictured above. Sanders as the modern incarnation of the rob-the-rich-and-give-to-the-poor hero of English folklore speaks to how his supporters view him -- […]....

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