What's the difference between folklore and superstition?

Folklore


Definition:

  • () Alt. of Folk lore

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
  • (2) As she states in her editor’s forward to the first issue, Toor decided to publish a bilingual journal because she intended the magazine to be read by “high school and University students of Spanish … as well as to those who are interested in folklore and the Indian for their own sakes.” She adds: “Moreover, much beauty is lost in translating.” Toor presents herself as a competent cultural translator, should there be any doubt on the part of her readership.
  • (3) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
  • (4) If that was a stroke of luck Everton were even luckier in the second half, when Joe Allen made his contribution to derby folklore with what may well be the miss of the season.
  • (5) Considering a previous contribution presented by the author in reference to alcoholic families (Prize 1981, Journal of Family Therapy) findings highlight that alcoholism and folkloric medicine persist and increase insomuch as the possibilities for adjustment to a new culture decrease.
  • (6) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
  • (7) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
  • (8) The story has been denied by everybody, but it has entered the Rudd folklore, nonetheless.]
  • (9) The interest taken in traditional African Therapies was classically supported by a system of anthropological eurocentric references, motivated amongst other things by a folkloric curiosity.
  • (10) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
  • (11) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
  • (12) For Chipperfield, his installation for the Mies building not only recalls the forest’s dense symbolism in German literature and folklore, but has much to say about the notion of the column in architecture: “The column has a very particular relationship with Germany because Nazi architecture in a way confiscated it by using it as a sign of authority.
  • (13) Chrysin (5,7-di-OH-flavone) was identified in Passiflora coerulea L., a plant used as a sedative in folkloric medicine.
  • (14) This paper lists and discusses many of the folklore beliefs attributed to blood and shows that many of these primitive beliefs still can be found today.
  • (15) In retail folklore, middle-class southerners carry the orange rosette that is a Sainsbury’s bag for life, while a bootful of heavy duty Tesco carriers points to a more workmanlike existence.
  • (16) The prevalence of such feelings in folklore and in literature is noted.
  • (17) The 82-year-old, a member of the 1960 title-winning team, saw a younger generation carve their names into Burnley folklore.
  • (18) The use of modern microbiological techniques demonstrates that higher plants frequently exhibit significant potency against human bacterial and fungal pathogens, that many genera are involved, that many folkloric uses can be rationalized on this basis, that the active constituents are readily isolated by bioassay-directed techniques, that their chemical structures are types uncommon amongst fermentation-based agents but are familiar to natural product chemists, that their antimicrobial spectra are comparatively narrow but that their potency is often reasonable, that they are comparatively easy to synthesize and the unnatural analogues so produced can possess enhanced therapeutic potential and, thus, it is concluded that such work generates a gratifying number of novel lead structures and that the possibility of finding additional agents for human or agricultural use based upon higher plant agents is realistic.
  • (19) It is concluded that folklore information should be considered seriously in programs designed to yield prototype, biologically active molecules from plant sources.
  • (20) A visibly triumphant Sisi stood on the vessel’s upper deck, waving to wellwishers and folklore dance troupes performing on the shore.

Superstition


Definition:

  • (n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
  • (n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
  • (n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
  • (n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
  • (n.) Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (2) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
  • (3) Apichatpong Weerasethakul: 'My country is run by superstition' Read more According to her lawyers, she was charged for writing “ja” – the Thai equivalent of “yeah” – in response to a private Facebook message critical of the royals.
  • (4) Whether or not his challenge can be met is irrelevant, for it pegs the legitimacy of any positive argument for religion on a zero-sum game against his construction of "pure" rationality – the singular force for Good untarnished by superstition.
  • (5) A letter in which Albert Einstein branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" has been sold at auction in London for £170,000 to a private collector, smashing the world record for a letter by the great scientist.
  • (6) They are left in the realm of faith, ignorance, superstition, taboo.
  • (7) At the time that printing came onto the scene in western Europe in the mid-1400s, the medical community was struggling in the depths of superstition, and little rational medicine was being practiced.
  • (8) Just as the Victorian science revolution played havoc with religious superstition, so the information revolution can now play havoc with political falsehood.
  • (9) The congregation then stands to sing Superstition by Stevie Wonder .
  • (10) First of all, folk cults are usually suppressed by a nominally communist government which officially, in good Marxist fashion, dismisses all religion as superstition.
  • (11) The influence of the Japanese superstition that females born in the year of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire Horse) possess undesirable characters and should not marry on the fertility of the Korean immigrant population in Japan was examined and compared with the influence of this superstition on the Japanese in Japan and the Korean population in Korea.
  • (12) The sale will be watched carefully because a letter in which he branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" that went on sale in May smashed the record for an Einstein letter by fetching £170,000.
  • (13) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
  • (14) Clearly, the Japanese folk superstition played an important part in discouraging Koreans in Japan from having a child in 1966.
  • (15) I mean, it was sort of like his superstition, because all players are always superstitious.
  • (16) From colourful language to bizarre superstitions and unexpected decisions, the anecdotes are myriad.
  • (17) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
  • (18) This fact is consistent with the superstition that women born in the year of Fire-horse are ill-fated.
  • (19) What makes this all so dangerous is that it not only corrupts policy debates, it undermines serious journalism – and science and history and all other rational disciplines – by rendering their output mere arguments, no more or less credible than someone's dogma, superstition or gut hunch.
  • (20) No-one thinks that the French and Hungarians, who seem to have integrated anti-GM superstition into their cultural DNA, are going to change their minds anytime soon.