William Thoms
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Your pages have so often given evidence of the interest which you take in what we in England designate as Popular Antiquities, or Popular Literature (though by-the-bye it is more a Lore than a Literature, and would be most aptly described by a good Saxon compound, Folk-Lore,— the Lore of the People )—that I am not without hopes of enlisting your aid in garnering the few ears which are remaining, scattered over that [ 863 a] field from which our forefathers might have gathered a goodly crop."--William Thoms |
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William Thoms (1803 – 1885) was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846.
Thoms's investigation of folklore and myth led to a later career of debunking longevity myths, and he was a pioneer demographer.
