“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.”

—  P. L. Travers

As quoted in No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin People (2001) by Evan T. Pritchard

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