Introduction to Folk Belief

Folk beliefs form the basis of PCa knowledge among most stakeholders.

The relation between plant names and folk beliefs and legends are analysed, religious references are also made.

Folk belief through magical practices is an integral part of the discussion about the Pancur Gading Site, located in Deli Tua Village, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Moreover, Beijing should increase the institutional stability and creativity for its faith diplomacy and encourage the five state-sanctioned religions and folk beliefs to play a larger role, with a view to consolidating national identity and religious identity among the Chinese people.

The results obtained from this study are: 1) the oral literature of the tumpeng tawonsiege tradition is a type of oral tradition in the form of myths and folk beliefs; 2) the values contained in the tumpeng wasp siege tradition consist of divine values, harmony between humans, equality between humans, diversity, sincerity, unyielding, usefulness to others, and concern in achieving goals; 3) the tumpeng wasp siege tradition has a function as a projection system, as a tool for ratifying cultural institutions and institutions, as an educational tool (pedagogical device), and as a coercive and supervisory tool so that community norms will always be obeyed by members.

The meaning of the ritual and its variants are delineated through folk beliefs and institutionalised Orthodoxy and are defined as one of the main reasons for becoming revenants.

The emergence of modern health-related commodities and tourism in the late Meiji and Taishō eras (1900s–1920s) was accompanied by a revival of spiritualist religions, many of which had their origins in folk belief.

For its reconstruction, both linguistic semantic and motivational parallels — as well as extra-linguistic facts from the field of folklore and folk beliefs — are involved, confirming the stability of the symbolic links between “eagle” and “stone.

Results: This study showed that between ethnic facilitation factors (drug and drug counseling, folk beliefs in oral literature, and beliefs about rituals and companionship) and personality traits (nature and character), except the avoidance factor at the significant level of 0.

This Hindu tantric tradition weds ritualistic practices of Kashmirian Saivism (Krama-Trika) with the folk beliefs of Kerala.

Incorporating medical anthropology in public health approaches can greatly influence the public, especially when the people are deeply rooted in folk beliefs.

According to the examined folklore materials–folk beliefs, customs, Christian legends and notes on memorates –, the traditions related to Saint Agatha’s Day play a considerable role in the life of a practicing Catholics.

This article explores the impact of folk beliefs; namely, the cult of nature and religious beliefs that are reflected in “The Tale of Kieu” and “The Funeral Oration to the Souls”.

Background: There is a folk belief that drinking Ramsar spring mineral water (RSW) is a remedy for renal stones.

It is noted that a significant part of the Forest Song mythology falls on demonology, where each of the demons has features attributed to him by folk beliefs.

Its rich implications involve dimensions of religion, ritual, folk belief, ethics, psychology, cosmology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and literature.

“Yin Shen Sai She” in south-east Jin area is a comprehensive folk sacrificial ritual activity, which is a cultural combination of multiple art genres and folk beliefs.

It is established that the names of yarrow are motivated by the following characteristics: form; usage in folk medicine; habitat; effect produced by the plant; usage by animals as food; folk beliefs and customs; colour; features of structure.

The impact of folk beliefs about causality upon help-seeking is unclear.

Buddhist rhetoric refers to a cultural resource which is mixed up with folk belief and intermittently appear in ‘Red’ (revolutionary) narratives.

These results are in accord with the coexistence model, which posits that an individual can have coexisting scientific and folk beliefs across his/her life course.

The article employs two perspectives on personhood: Pamela Cooper-White's theological concept of relational and multiple self and the folk belief in the ‘true self’.

Current sentencing policies focus on long-term incapacitation of adults with criminal records because of our folk belief that adult personality traits are immutable.

Instead of relying purely on the biomedical sector, the health system should acknowledge and show respect for popular knowledge and folk belief.

Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740.

BackgroundThis paper discusses the social dimension of gastronomy, such as folk beliefs regarding avoidance and prescriptions during the stages of menstruation and pregnancy.

METHODS Data from a multicenter case-control study of ovarian cancer in AA women were used to examine associations between cultural/folk beliefs and religious practices and stage at diagnosis and symptom duration before diagnosis.

Nevertheless, it suggests that (i) all symptoms have a metaphoricity to convey a variety of distress, (ii) idioms are polysemious and have a capacity for multiple meaning and pragmatic implications, beyond local and cultural inferences, (iii) idioms of distress are performative, are a form of social action that effects social change, and are prone to improvisation of expression that is associated with adoption in new and changing contexts, (iv) psychiatric idioms are as easily accepted as local and folk beliefs and expressions, (v) idioms of distress are used for negotiating access to care, cure and healing across regions and cultures.

In this process, Taoism and folk beliefs absorbed popular reverence and fear for God of thunder into their own religious dogma.

Wilson gives a taste of the traditions, folk beliefs, and livelihoods of these swamp-dwelling communities.

The official religious considerations sometimes seem to have coincided with folk beliefs and explanations of misfortune concerning, among others, the plague epidemic in which witchcraft played an important role.

Gorodetsky’s poetic work is considered through a context of folk beliefs.

Engaging learners in articulating the ‘folk beliefs’ that govern people’s interaction with algorithms, it is argued, can contribute to the development of the kinds of digital literacies they will need to better understand the ways algorithms affect the kinds of information they are exposed to, the kinds of inferences they form about this information, and the ways their own acts of reading and writing can be used by algorithms to manipulate them.

Aspects of these folk beliefs positively predicted design intuitions about nature.

This chapter illustrates the mind-body relation and psychosomatic medicine under the Chinese culture background from three aspects: traditional Chinese philosophy, folk belief and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Focusing in particular on the province of Connacht, this article argues that the Ordnance Survey Letters should be considered an important source of information about folklore and folk beliefs which were still extant or had been until shortly before the Survey visited the locality.

Using the rich folkloristic and ethnographic material, the author has distinguished three types of roles in which – in folk beliefs – animals are incarnated: (a) death harbingers, (b) mourners, feeling sad and regret after losing a loved one, (c) the last travelling companions.

The article finishes with two reflections on folklore transmission and folk beliefs in Lancashire in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Other plants which have been called mother-die, plus other names given to cow parsley, are also discussed, as are folk beliefs associated with these names.

In these studies, it is possible to find the names of doctors, medical terms, folk beliefs and the plants used in the treatment of diseases.

The second book that is reviewed in this paper is the “Plants in folk beliefs and customs” dictionary (Wroclaw, 2016) by Adam Fischer, one of the most renown Polish ethnographers and folklorists of the first half of the 20 th century.

This syncretic structure, which predominantly constitutes the Turkish culture in Anatolia, has been transferred to the present day with mythologies, epics, legends, proverbs, tales and folk beliefs.

There has been established a set of offerings including the gandha in this period, being possibly associated with the development of manufacturing method of the gandha probably in the field of magical or medicine rites derived from the Atharvavedic tradition, or even from folk beliefs.

Weakened Border – Expressions of Demonic World in the House Space in the Folklore and Ethnographic Materials from the 19th and the 20th Century The article focuses on three issues: folk beliefs related to the house, magic protecting the house against demonic creatures, and the so‑called “weak boundaries”.

As a result of the field study conducted in Zile district, it was found that most of the folk beliefs compiled were similar and some of them lived only in Alevi or Sunni villages.

Summary: The treatment of the psychosis in the past was based on folk beliefs, as well as homicide.