folk-lorist

The present plan, a subject-index practically, has been adopted with a view to the needs of the anthropologist and folk-lorist.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

The charm of Herrick's verses on country joys is deepened -- to the folk-lorist in particular -- by remembering that the rustic ceremonies he commemorates were probably the usual customs observed at Dean Prior in his time.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

These are the wise words of a sound folk-lorist, [47] and should be laid to heart by all who take up the study.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

It would doubtless require a skilled folk-lorist to supply full critical notes and parallels; but I subjoin such details as I have been able to collect.

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

Shakespeare's apparent confusion of a May-day with a Mid-summer-night may seem pardonable to the folk-lorist in the light of the fact that various folk-festivals appear to take place indiscriminately on May-day or

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

In 1889, William Butler Yeats published his _Wanderings of Oisin_; in the same year Douglas Hyde, the scholar and folk-lorist, brought out his _Book of Gaelic Stories_.

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

In 1889, William Butler Yeats published his Wanderings of Oisin; in the same year Douglas Hyde, the scholar and folk-lorist, brought out his Book of Gaelic Stories.

Introductory Louis Untermeyer 1920

They do have some sort of shindy -- not interesting to any one but a folk-lorist.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

-- To the folk-lorist, of course, it is all 'primitive Mediterranean' religion or superstition; but the inner worlds are wonderful and vast, if you begin to have the smallest inkling of an understanding of them.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

Pontius Pilate, which the author frankly sets down as ‘apocriphum’; while the folk-lorist will find a rich field to interest him in a territory hitherto but little explored.

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900