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n. The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.

n. The comparative study of folk knowledge and culture. Also called folkloristics.

n. A body of widely accepted but usually specious notions about a place, a group, or an institution: Rumors of their antics became part of the folklore of Hollywood.

n. A popular but unfounded belief.

n. The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.

Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people; the unwritten literature of a culture, such as stories, proverbs, riddles and songs.

n. The lore of the common people; the traditional beliefs and customs of the people, especially such as are obsolete or archaic; traditional knowledge; popular superstitions, tales, traditions, or legends.

n. the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

"The present author reserves the term folklore for application to those unappropriated scraps of popular song, story, myth, and superstition that have drifted down the stream of antiquity and that reach us in the scrap-bag of popular memory, often bearing in their battered forms the evidence of long use."

folk lore   

lore    traditional knowledge   

myth    folk    oral tradition    lore   

folkloric    folklorist   

philology    mythology    lore    philologist    sociology    geography    ethnology    colonisation    genealogy    myth