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

noun. The comparative study of folk knowledge and culture.

noun. undefined

noun. A body of widely accepted but usually specious notions about a place, a group, or an institution.

noun. A popular but unfounded belief.

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. 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  myth  oral tradition  

folk lore  

folkloric  folklorist  

lore  traditional knowledge  

allegory  ancestry  apologue  ballad  colonisation  

Mishnah  Spiritus Mundi  Sunna  Talmud  ancient wisdom