Peer meets three amorous dairy-maids who are waiting to be courted by trolls (a folklore motif from Gudbrandsdalen).
Her good fortune is illustrated by a folklore motif: her wedding ring slips off her finger while she is crossing the Thames - but the ring turns up in the salmon served for her dinner.
Like the previous myth it contains many folklore motifs.
Likewise, Princess Mononoke, Pan's Labyrinth, Suspiria, and Spike create new stories in this genre from fairy tale and folklore motifs.
After a while, he began receiving what were obviously field agents' reports, with a request to match the descriptions in them to the closest known folklore motif.
The motif of a lover visiting in the form of a bird draws upon a common folklore motif, as in Child ballad 270, The Earl of Mar's Daughter.
Her work is noteworthy for its exploitation of folklore motifs, brilliant color, simple and striking forms, and humor; in these respects, a comparison with the art of Marc Chagall would strike some viewers as apropos.
Maksim Gaspari (26 January 1883 - 14 November 1980) was a Slovene painter best known for his paintings and illustrations as well as numerous postcards with folklore motifs and scenes from rural life.
This is the grateful dead, a common folklore motif, found also in Fair Brow.