Potential Use of Euphorbia hirta for Dengue: A Systematic Review of Scientific Evidence by Sashini D. Perera, Uthpala A. Jayawardena, Chanika D. Jayasinghe

“…Euphorbia hirta commonly known as Tawa-Tawa is a plant used in folklore medicine in the Philippines for the treatment of dengue. …”
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A Review on the Cosmeceutical and External Applications of Nigella sativa by Ahmad M. Eid, Nagib A. Elmarzugi, Laila M. Abu Ayyash, Maher N. Sawafta, Hadeel I. Daana

“…Due to these numerous important ingredients it was found that it affects different areas of our body and has many pharmacological effects as antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and wound healing effect and also for acne vulgaris, skin cancer, pigmentation, and many cosmeceutical applications. Based on the folklore usage of N. sativa seeds and oil, they are used in various systems of food and medicines. …”
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Nigmat Hakim, manuscript, “Idegey”, dastan, variability, textual studies, written sources, version by Fazlutdinov I.I.

“…The aim of the work is to identify all the variants recorded in Siberia, as well as to provide information about folklore researchers who collected and studied dastan, assessing the contribution of each of the researchers and describing historical inaccuracies of fragments and excerpts published in different years. …”
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Anti-Diarrheal Activity of the Aqueous Leaf Extract of <i>Ageratum Conyzoides</i> in Wistar Rats by JOT Emudainohwo, EO Erhirhie, EG Moke

“…Thus its aqueous leaf extract was investigated for its possible anti-diarrheal property using castor oil induced diarrheal, charcoal meal intestinal transit and castor oil-induced enteropooling models in Wistar rats to substantiate its folklore claim. In castor oil induced diarrheal model, 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg body weight doses of the extract showed dose dependent remarkable anti-diarrheal activity evidenced by delay in diarrheal latency, reduction in the rate of defecation and consistency, although it was not comparable to that loperamide which elicited absent of diarrheal. …”
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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts by V.I. Kulakov

“…The phenomenon of conservative spiritual culture of the Balts was studied using the archaeological evidence and Prussian folklore. The autochthonous inhabitants of the Baltic States in the New and Recent History were distinguished by the constancy of their cultural views. …”
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Zum aktuellen Stand der professionellen Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lucker

“…The article also identifies the place of academic and non-academic specialties (folk instruments, ethnomusicology, folklore singing) in Russian professional education, the distribution of educational material and its role in ’academic’ Western European and ’non academic’ folk and pop music. …”
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Adjectives in the dialects of azerbaijani language by SEVİNC

“…The adjectives that have lost their functionality in the literary Azerbaijani, but are preserved in various dialects were compared with Kashghari's dictionary, samples of the oral folklore ("Dede Korkut's Book", "Oguzname"), the language of the classics (Imadaddin Nasimi) and the samples extracted from those sources are mentioned in the article. …”
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Antinociceptive and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Leaf Methanol Extract of Cotyledon orbiculata L. (Crassulaceae) by George J. Amabeoku, Joseph Kabatende

“…The data obtained indicate that C. orbiculata has antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities, justifying the folklore use of the plant species by traditional medicine practitioners in the treatment of painful and inflammatory conditions. …”
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Anti-Diarrheal Activity of the Aqueous Leaf Extract of <i>Ageratum Conyzoides</i> in Wistar Rats by JOT Emudainohwo, EO Erhirhie, EG Moke

“…Thus its aqueous leaf extract was investigated for its possible anti-diarrheal property using castor oil induced diarrheal, charcoal meal intestinal transit and castor oil-induced enteropooling models in Wistar rats to substantiate its folklore claim. In castor oil induced diarrheal model, 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg body weight doses of the extract showed dose dependent remarkable anti-diarrheal activity evidenced by delay in diarrheal latency, reduction in the rate of defecation and consistency, although it was not comparable to that loperamide which elicited absent of diarrheal. …”
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Fiction books translations for children: publishing in Lithuania in 1940-1990 by Vita Mozūraitė

“…The majority of these books were translated from Russian (about 45%). The literary and folklore books of various nations within the U.S.S.R. comprise 60.7% of all children's translations. …”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Such concentrations of the entry include persons/personalities, demographics, worldviews and cosmological values and elements, and several material and non-material aspects of the Yorùbá culture and folklore, and their corresponding affiliates. It is important to add that the completeness of the entries is considerably informed by the suitability of the word-ranges used. …”
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The title as a constituent and structural component of T. G. Shevchenko's poetic works: general characteristics, specifics by Alla Ruban

“…Special attention is focused on the extratextual information of the titles, when their basis is not only the content of the work, but its associative connection with other aesthetic objects: allusions that testify to the connection with the folklore national-cultural context; allusions to the biblical text; allusions based on a connection with a specific person; borrowing titles; genre headings; names based on persistent phrases or aphorisms. …”
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THE PSEUDO-SLAVIC REALIA IN PSEUDO-ETHNIC FANTASY: THE ISSUES OF TRANSLATION INTO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE by Nadezhda V. Rabkina

“…To date, the traditional fantasy genre that has its roots in European folklore is transforming as authors seek new, fresh mythological foundations and exotic forms of narration. …”
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Transnational patterns, social networks and self-help organizations for migrant women [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Paolo Ruspini, Petko Hristov

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Protective Effects of Aqueous Extract of Solanum nigrum Linn. Leaves in Rat Models of Oral Mucositis by Alkesh Patel, Subhankar Biswas, Muhammed Haneefa Shoja, Grandhi Venkata Ramalingayya, K. Nandakumar

“…Leaves of the plant Solanum nigrum are used in folklore medicine to treat oral ulcers in India. However, no pharmacological investigation has been carried out till date. …”
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Tradiția literară și teatrală a absurdului by Mirela Mihaela Doga

“…Second, verbal nonsense, with deep roots in children’s folklore, is used to liberate one from the constraints of logic. …”
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On the Handing over of the Exhibits of the 1900 Paris Exposition. Correspondence among the Lithuanian Alliance of America, Morta Zauniūtė, and Jonas Basanavičius (1905–1909) by Mikas Vaicekauskas

“…The sources available – the correspondence between the organisations and individuals involved in this matter and publications in the press, which are currently stored at Vilnius University Library and at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore – make it possible to introduce the history of the transfer of the exhibits consistently, while also covering some individual and psychological nuances. …”
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Adam Mickiewicz in Search of Lithuanian National Identity by Aušra Jurgutienė

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Antihyperlipidemic Potential of Polyphenol and Glycoside Rich Nerium oleander Flower against Triton WR-1339-Induced Hyperlipidemia in Experimental Sprague Dawley Rats by V. Gayathri, S. Ananthi, Hannah R. Vasanthi

“…(NO), an evergreen cardiac glycoside-rich shrub is used as folklore medicine in China to treat many diseases. …”
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Exploring Elements of Gender Stereotypes and Stereotyping in some Zulu Wedding Songs by Khayelihle Excellent Khumalo, Bongephiwe Dlamini-Myeni

“…Songs are one of the tools and an integral part of the Zulu people’s folklore deployed to transmit information about cultural experiences, practices and traditions from one generation to another. …”
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