Folklore -- verbal lore (fables, myths, legends, riddles, proverbs); folk wisdom (occupational lore, weather lore, signs and superstitions); material culture (textiles and costume, folk architecture); praxis and folk music.
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives."
Pericles
"The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact," said the great American mythologist
Joseph Campbell.
