Talk:Folk memory

It has been used as a literary device in stories such as Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, in which human ideas of demons are derived from folk memories of an alien race who had visited once before, and whose appearance portends the end of the human race.


 * I was going to add this but then I see from the other article that this was "reverse race memory" (it's been a while since I read it), that they were remembering the future or something.
 * Oh Arthur, you have so many opportunities to make sense, and you just toss them aside... - Omegatron 01:52, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

A list?!
No offence, but I think it's a bit of a shame that this article has effectively developed into a list - e.g. I was thinking that a reference to the Walkington Wold burials might be useful here, as there's a WP:RS for folk memory there, but looking at this article as it now is, I think I'll leave that to someone else - I just wouldn't feel right simply adding an item to a list! I hope my mention of Walkington Wold burials is helpful, anyway... Nortonius (talk) 17:51, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Not much different 9 years later, but if anyone wants some more examples, there seem to be some purported folk memories in Hawaii: A flooded caldera |1 |2 and other geologic phenomena --Macoroni (talk) 15:55, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Wolves in Great Britain?
If Wikipedia is any good as a reputable source, wolves existed in the UK as late as 1680 and possibly even later. Kortoso (talk) 23:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

I don't see any contradiction with the current content of the article, which states "Place names have been used to reconstruct the past frequency and distribution of the wolf and beaver in Great Britain, where such species are no longer present".

They are no longer present because the wolf population on the island has gone extinct. Based on the sources in the article Wolves in Great Britain, there were still reports of living wolves in 18th-century Scotland and an unconfirmed sighting dating to 1888. There have been calls to reintroduce the wolf to Great Britain by importing wolves from elsewhere and releasing them into the wild, but there has been insufficient support for the proposal.

Similarly, based on the sources on Wolves in Ireland, the last wild wolf in Ireland was reported killed in 1786. Dimadick (talk) 19:02, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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