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A German folk tale, Hansel and Gretel; illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909. 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.
Davy Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet, "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo.
South Korean folk culture (3 C) Swedish folk culture (7 C, 1 P) Swiss folk culture (4 C) T. Taiwanese folk culture (2 C, 3 P) Turkish folk culture (4 C) U.
In folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore that is often expressed in narratives, customs, rituals, foodways, proverbs, and rhymes. [1] It also includes a wide variety of behaviors, expressions, and beliefs.
Articles relating to folk culture, cultural traditions as distinguished from modern popular culture. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories ...
Articles relating to folk culture in the United States. ... Folk festivals in the United States (8 C, 142 P) American folklore (21 C, 144 P) M.
Folk festivals are generally used to celebrate folk music and traditional folk crafts, and some folk festivals are embodied in the form of dance and art. Some festivals are used to celebrate the harvest of crops or to gather people to watch performances and enjoy music, dance and folk culture on a specific day.
Ogres are usually tall, strong, violent, greedy, and remarkably dull monsters and they originate from French culture. In folktales they are likely to be defeated by being outsmarted. [28] The Will-o'-the-wisp is a folk explanation of strange, flickering lights seen around marshes and bogs. [29]