folklore

[folklore]

Stories, customs, and beliefs that are passed from one generation to the next are called folklore. According to folklore, you shouldn't take rocks from the volcanoes in Hawaii because Pele, the volcano goddess, will be angry and curse you.

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Noun
the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture



Alt. of Folk lore


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Usage Examples

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

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