folk-lorist

• “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'

• “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'

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “-- 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

• “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

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