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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. [2] [3] This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group.
1949/50 – Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, 2 volumes. A one-volume edition with minor revisions was released in 1972. 1957 – The Fashion Dictionary; 19?? – Funk & Wagnalls Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions; 1968 – Handbook of Indoor Games & Stunts [Paperbook F58]
The Folklore Society, a UK association for the study of folklore Folklore studies Mathematical folklore or folk mathematics, the body of theorems, definitions, proofs, or mathematical facts or techniques that circulate among mathematicians by word of mouth but have not appeared in print
Folklorism or folklorismus is a concept of folklore transmission developed by Hans Moser and, separately, Viktor Gusev. [1] It can be defined neutrally, for example "The innovative and often commercial use of folk materials such as costumes, folk songs, folktales, proverbs, and so forth, outside their traditional contexts", [2] or more pejoratively, for example as "spurious and misleading ...
Folk memory, also known as folklore or myths, refers to past events that have been passed orally from generation to generation. The events described by the memories may date back hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years and often have a local significance.
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
A folklore figure who, despite the huge size and enormous strength, has a good heart (see: Giant). ... The antonym of a villain is a hero. The villain's structural ...
Human cannibalism features in the myths, folklore, and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrongdoing. Examples include Lamia of Greek mythology, a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, upon learning of her husband Zeus' trysts.