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Folklore

Cultural expressions of a particular group of people, manifested in verbal form (proverbs, jokes, legends, songs), material form (objects of art), customs (beliefs and ways of doing things)

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Folklore

22 images from works
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Victory of Indrajit. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • When cough iteslf is the chief concern Actifed Compound Linctus quickly quietens cough.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects : collection of bark for medicinal purposes ...
  • Four eagle-stone geodes. Woodcut, 1599.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • A royal sage tells the father of the fishergirl of their marriage. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1907.
  • Semi-clothed woman by a river bank called Varini. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Works from the collections

459 works

    • Books

    Folk-lore in the Old Testament / [J.G. Frazer].

    Frazer, James George, 1854-1941. | Date: 1919
    • Books

    The bridle of Pegasus : studies in magic, mythology and folklore / by Warren R. Dawson.

    Dawson, Warren R. (Warren Royal), 1888-1968. | Date: [1930]
    • Books

    Magia, rito y ciencia : la medicina náhuatl / Martha Eugenia Rodríguez de Engell.

    Engell, Martha Eugenia Rodríguez de. | Date: 1993
    • Books

    Southern folk medicine, 1750-1820 / Kay K. Moss.

    Moss, Kay. | Date: [1999], ©1999
    • Books

    Border healing woman : the story of Jewel Babb / as told to Pat Ellis Taylor.

    Babb, Jewel, 1900- | Date: [1981], ©1981

Related topics

Medicine, Traditional
Mythology
Indians, North American
Superstitions
Magic
England
United Kingdom
Medicine, Traditional
India
Religion and Medicine

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