folk-belief

One notable comment was from UK-based Indian psychiatrist Sushrut Jadhav who remarked on the relationship between the uneasy bedfellows of science and folk-belief:

Mind Hacks: April 2005 Archives 2005

One notable comment was from UK-based Indian psychiatrist Sushrut Jadhav who remarked on the relationship between the uneasy bedfellows of science and folk-belief:

Mind Hacks: Classic case: Psychiatric treatment of ghost possession 2005

Though you're right that such things are present in the lore, they belong more to the "official record" than to folk-belief.

Metamorphoses 2005

In English, we formerly had the phrase "to look _babies_ in the eyes," and we still speak of the _pupil_ of the eye, the old folk-belief having been able to assert itself in the every-day speech of the race, -- the thought that the soul looked out of the windows of the eyes.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

In her little poem _The Children in the Moon_, Miss Humphrey has versified an old folk-belief that the "tiny cloudlets flying across the moon's shield of silver" are a little lad and lass with a pole across their shoulders, at the end of which is swinging a water-bucket.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

All the activities and callings of the child, the wisdom, the beauty, the innocence of childhood find in folk-belief and folk-faith their highest, perfect expression in the Babe of Bethlehem.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Christmas Eve is also in Scandinavian folk-belief the time when the dead revisit their old homes, as on All Souls 'Eve in Roman Catholic lands.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Iron is a common talisman with barbarians, but in this case the idea of exquisite sharpness was probably present also, and, perhaps, some feeling for the sanctity of the instrument of toil, a folk-belief that is common in Brittany.

The Aran Islands 1890

In modern folk-belief the influence of the sun is less directly apparent.

Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873

Dream Hunter is a new one-act opera by Nicola LeFanu, with a libretto by John Fuller, inspired by a folk-belief circulating in rural Corsica that some visionary people hunt in their dreams, and that the human prey they catch presages its real-life death.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Rupert Christiansen 2012