Many Hong Kong people practice an eclectic mixture of the two, sometimes combined with other folk religious practices.
This is a particularly colorful example of folk practice still kept alive.
Rather, Smith and his family viewed their folk magical practices as spiritual gifts.
Radić follows the folk practice of setting different lyrics to the same tune and vice versa.
When an artist uses references to Taiwanese folk practices, for example, is it an effort to demonstrate distance from Chinese culture?
"It had the status of a rural folk practice," says Kett.
"This is a folk practice incorporating much common-sense wisdom."
However, there are other strange offal usages in folk practice.
Although such "folk" practices may well include useful formulae or algorithms, they are generally without the accompanying proof discipline.
Older sources from the 18th and 19th century sometimes use the word Obeah to describe equivalent folk practices.