n. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A folk-story.
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n. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
n. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
Word Usage
"Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old countrymost of them gruesome; children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witchesbut never spoke about the war in my hearing."