Folk example sentences

The second includes Nath literature such as the songs of Maynamati and Gopichandra, stories concerning the worship of Dharma Thakur, and fairy tales, folk tales and ballads.While novelists before Burman had featured 'low' castes as their protagonists, Titash is special because the author is himself from a 'low-caste', fisherfolk community.There are many such struggles such as those among beedi workers, fisherfolk, agricultural labourers, slum dwellers and each group is struggling for justice in its own way.The Grimm brothers also saw French domination as a threat to German culture, and believed that the folktales they had collected were expressions of a pure and authentic German spirit.He composed several truly original story poems in folk refrain and diction and also wrote a sprawling novel Thillana Mohanambal with dozens of very deftly etched characters.It is worth remembering that many dance forms that are classified as “folk” also share several of the characteristics considered typical of “classical” forms.So collecting and recording these forms of folk culture was essential to the project of nation-building.The novel Chemmeen (Shrimp, 1956), written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912-99), is set in the fishing community in Kerala, and characters speak a variety of Malayalam used by fisherfolk in the region.Karol Kurpinski, for example, celebrated the national struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dances like the polonaise and mazurka into nationalist symbols.They considered their projects of collecting folktales and developing the German language as part of the wider effort to oppose French domination and create a German national identity.Social psychologists have shown that one must go beyond common sense and folk wisdom in order to explain how people observe and make sense of their own and others' diverse behaviours.The legends of Radha-Krishna were enacted in folk plays called rasa lila, which combined folk dance with the basic gestures of the kathak story-tellers.Ballads are a part of folk culture or popular culture and are passed on orally from one generation to the next.It was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the nation (volksgeist) was popularised.On a particular day, the contractor's workers appeared in the forest to cut the trees while the men folk were absent.