Instruct: Given a question, retrieve relevant documents that answer the question.
Query: What is the biggest legend in Qatari folklore?
Among Qatar's most noted folk heroes are Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a, a 7th-century war poet,[15] and Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami, an 18th- and 19th-century pirate and transitory leader of Qatar.[16] Recurring themes in Qatari folk tales are djinn, pearl diving, and the sea.[17]
The author, Benjamin Radford, attempts to solve the mystery of the chupacabra, including whether it is a legend or real animal, what its physical and behavior characteristics are, its origin and connection to folklore, and what exactly is happening to the animals reported to be its victims.
Among the Wyandots was the legend of the hooh-strah-dooh. A cross between what current fiction/legends portray as zombies and vampires, the hooh-strah-dooh was an evil spirit that inhabited recently dead bodies and caused the corpse to rise and devour the living. The redbud was believed to be an effective ward.
Filmed in Toronto in the spring of 1998, "Urban Legend" was released in the United States on September 25, 1998, and grossed over US$70 million worldwide. The film has been credited by both cinema and folklore scholars as being one of the first major films to redistribute the urban legends and folklore depicted within it to the public.
It is hardly necessary to dwell here on the value and significance of these "lives". We may regard them as religious romances or novels, and as is generally agreed, they were written to enhance the cause of the church or "parochia", whose freedom and independence was not infrequently threatened at this time. In no sense are they 'historical'; indeed they have more to offer the student of social anthropology and primitive religion. Much of what they contain is pure imagination, mingled and blended with myth, folklore and legend. But, as Doble reminds us, 'Legend is history, in the sense that the legends and traditions of a people are part of its history.'
She held a three-year appointment to the Canadian Federal Committee for AIDS Priorities and Policy. She is the current president of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, and serves, or has served, on the editorial boards of the "Journal of American Folklore"; "Folklore Ethnologies, and Contemporary Legend", "Electronic Journal of Folklore" and the "Journal of Applied Folklore."Speaking in an interview shortly before her appointment as the American Folklore Society’s president elect, Goldstein is quoted as stating, "I am a firm believer that folklore, in its various guises, has vital perspectives on critical social issues…" but she also added, "I have extensive experience…convincing others outside of our discipline of the significance of our disciplinary perspectives and [I] would like to explore ways that we can better present those perspectives…to make our relevance visible within the academy, with the public and with cultural policymakers".
Ivan Vlatković ( 1571–died 1612), known in folklore as Ivo Senjanin ("Ivo of Senj"), was a Habsburg Croatian Uskok who led numerous military exploits against the Ottoman Empire. Due to few historical sources, much of what is known about him today is mainly attributed to legend and folklore detailing his life and accomplishments with a medieval romanticism. 
These known incidents could be found in legend, myth and folklore of beings so strange and alien that they became the fabric of what human beings thought of when they thought of being frightened; vampires, werewolves, banshees, manitou, evil spirits, etc. As human beings progressed into the Industrial Age the attacks seemed to lessen, but recently they'd begun to go on the rise.
Canadian folklore is the traditional material that Canadians pass down from generation to generation, either as oral literature or "by custom or practice". It includes songs, legends, jokes, rhymes, proverbs, weather lore, superstitions, and practices such as traditional food-making and craft-making. The largest bodies of folklore in Canada belong to the aboriginal and French-Canadian cultures. English-Canadian folklore and the folklore of recent immigrant groups have added to the country's folk.
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Over the next two decades, Brunvand added to the collection with "new" urban legends: "The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends", "The Big Book of Urban Legends" (which was formatted as a comic book), "The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends", "Curses! Broiled Again!", "The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends", "Too Good to be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends", and "The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story!". He made several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and, in 1987, began a twice-weekly syndicated newspaper column called "Urban Legends." He participated in countless radio talk shows and dozens of press interviews, educating people about this pass-along folk narrative that, typically involves people misunderstanding or making false assumptions about a story they heard. They forget details and fill in the gaps by inventing what they are missing to make sense of the story. Though criticized for the popular orientation of his books, Brunvand was dedicated to publicizing the field of folklore, exploring the roots of the stories, where possible, and, in some cases debunking them. "Folklorists fill different educational roles," Brunvand told members of The Missouri Folklore Society in 2003, "sometimes in classrooms, but often in a more public forum. I believe that the public and media image of what a folklorist does is in fact part of what we "should" be doing, whether we were trained specifically for it or not, whether we work in academe or not, and whether we like it or not."
"Russian Folklore" became one of the biggest staple texts for any non-Russian folklore or anthropology scholar who was studying the Russian or Soviet society largely because of his influence in the folklore field. The work is divided into 3 sections that describe the different eras of folklore. Since he did field work both before and after the Soviets took over in the October Revolution, he has a section of "Folklore Before The October Revolution" and "Soviet Folklore". Before he goes into the two eras of folklore, he discusses "Problems and Historiography of Folklore". Some scholars are critical of the sources from which he obtained his information, but his image still remains as one of the forefathers in the bringing of Russian Folklore to the Russian and American University setting.
Her styles are influenced by Qatari folklore and the country's natural history. Her style is also influenced by Islamic art, which is evident in her calligraphic works. Her paintings are typically titled after Qatari folk songs and proverbs, and some of the paintings have a symbiotic theme. In her initial years, her interests in plastic arts were hindered by the conservative views held by Qatari society on the art form.
Bahamas culture is rich with beliefs, traditions, folklore and legend. The most well-known folklore and legends in the Bahamas includes Lusca in Andros Bahamas, Pretty Molly on Exuma Bahamas, the Chickcharnies of Andro Bahamas, and the Lost City of Atlantis on Bimini Bahamas.
Giants, Monsters & Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend and Myth is an encyclopedia of monsters, folklore, myths, and legends compiled by Carol Rose. The book features small entries about monsters, folklore, myths and legends from around the world, and includes many illustrations.
Myth is often used in an overarching sense to describe a multitude of folklore genres, but there is a significance in distinguishing the various forms of folklore in order to properly determine what narratives constitute as mythological, as esteemed anthropologist Sir James Frazer suggests. Frazer contends that there are three primary categories of mythology (now more broadly considered categories of folklore): Myths, legends, and folktales, and that by definition, each genre pulls its narrative from a different ontological source, and therefore have different implications within a civilization. Frazer states:
Folklore of Italy refers to the folklore and urban legends of Italy.
Although recognized by critics for its usefulness as an introductory volume and reference point for expanding the field of folklore, reviewers cautioned that "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" lacked the depth necessary for people actively researching urban legends. Janet L. Langlois, for example, wondered what criteria Brunvand used in selecting stories for the book, as well as what made the legends American, urban and modern. Reviewer Gary Alan Fine wrote, "The paperback edition makes an excellent supplementary reading for introductory folklore students. It's all good fun, and Brunvand, folklore's Carl Sagan, should thrive and prosper, letting the all-purpose intelligentsia know that folklore is just as much fun as interplanetary travel and not nearly as expensive." To this, Brunvand countered: "I really won't think I have arrived until they refer to Carl Sagan as 'The Jan Brunvand of astronomy.'"
Jaber wrote an Arabic book entitled "The Life Cycle in the Qatari Society Tradition", published in 2015 by Qatar Museums. Documenting the intricacies of the life of an average Qatari, the book is based on both, personal accounts, and a large-scale study carried out by the Qatar-based Arab Gulf States Folklore Centre in the early 1990s. It is equipped with numerous illustrations and contains facets about Qatari culture.
English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries. Some stories can be traced back to their roots, while the origin of others is uncertain or disputed. England abounds with folklore, in all forms, from such obvious manifestations as the traditional Robin Hood tales, the Brythonic-inspired Arthurian legend, to contemporary urban legends and facets of cryptozoology such as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.
Many French variants of this tale feature a wild man instead of a bird, but in Brittany, it is very common that this figure, whether a bird or a man, is called Merlin. It is not clear what connection this figure has the Merlin of Arthurian legends, either with the legends as a source from the folklore, or the folklore as a source for the legend.
The "tanuki" has a long history in Japanese legend and folklore. "Bake-danuki" () are a kind of "tanuki yōkai" (ghost) found in the classics and in the folklore and legends of various places in Japan.
French folklore encompasses the fables, folklore and fairy tales and legends of the French people.
While teaching folklore at the University of Utah, Brunvand noticed a disconnect with his students and their views toward folklore. "They always seemed to think that folklore belonged to somebody else, usually in the past, that was something quaint and outdated." He began asking his students to think about and discuss stories from their own lives. These stories helped form the basis of a collection which Brunvand later included in several popular books on the topic of urban legends.
In 1981, Brunvand's first book devoted to urban legends was published. "The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings" helped to popularize the topic for a student audience. Urban legends, Brunvand explains, are "kissing cousins of myths, fairy tales and rumors. Legends differ from rumors because the legends are stories, with a plot. And unlike myths and fairy tales, they are supposed to be current and true, events rooted in everyday reality that at least could happen." Urban legends reflect modern-day societal concerns, hopes and fears, but are "weird whoppers we tell one another, believing them to be factual."
The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by American author Washington Irving. The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film.