folkloric
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The explanations offered by community members, folklorists have suggested, may be related to traditional beliefs about the dead who prey upon the living.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
He recorded Lucy Stewart, Elizabeth’s aunt, and before long others made the same pilgrimage, including the American folklorists Kenneth S. Goldstein and Charles Joyner.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
Local folklorists have long maintained Camelot was in the Borders with Arthur buried deep beneath the Eildons.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2022
As early as the nineteen-thirties, ethnomusicologists and folklorists such as Alan Lomax travelled to places like Parchman Farm, Mississippi’s notorious state penitentiary, to make field recordings of prisoners working in the sweltering cotton fields there.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
Many folklorists trace these songs back for centuries.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
