Henry Flagler, his town, and the fire St. Augustine Record It is folklore, it is a myth. But I think it could have happened, just in stages.” Willie Miller, 36, a fifth-generation Palm Beach County resident, said his great-aunt, Inez Peppers Lovett, lived in the Styx, remembered no fire and said she left of ...
Folk and Myth Talks Grimm Harvard Crimson The annual symposium, sponsored by the Folklore and Mythology department, was held at the Barker Center in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of tales collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. “Grimms' Fairy Tales,” which was ...
There is some 'science' behind Groundhog Day York Daily Record The rodentary part of the myth originated in Germany and plays off the Candlemas folklore, Kreiger said. If the groundhog sees its shadow -- if the day is fair and bright -- and scurries back into its burrow, we're in for six more weeks of winter.
Bigfoot researcher talks at Wofford about urban legends Spartanburg Herald Journal Renowned bigfoot researcher Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University spoke to Wofford students studying urban legends during the January Interim. Here, Wofford senior Dominque Cox gets a book signed. By LEE HEALY When a class of curious Wofford College ...
Here be dragons Malaysia Star “Though there are serpents and water-monsters in them, the myths and legends of the indigenous North Americans seem not to have had a dragon myth analogous to that of the European and Asian traditions or of the Meso-Americans to the south,” he adds.
