He did extensive field work in Palestine, collecting poetry and proverbs.

The history of collecting and compiling proverbs, folk poetry and songs only started about 200 years ago.

Together, they collected proverbs and popular poems from all nine islands.

Florinus became inspired to collect proverbs in 1695 after getting the collections of Gabriel Tammelin in his possession who died that same year.

Cultural and regional savant societies began to collect oral folk tales, proverbs, and legends from native speakers in an effort that continues to today.

He also collected nearly 750 Kodava idioms and proverbs for the book.

He was one of the first to collect Russian proverbs and describe folk rituals and observances.

He collected folktales, folk songs, proverbs, superstitions, riddles, children's games, and much more.

Gillhoff collected about 4,000 Low German expressions, speech patterns and proverbs and published them in a report.

Slaveykov engaged in important cultural and educational activity and had collected 2263 folk songs, sayings and proverbs until 1847.