folklore
/ˈfəʊklɔː
/noun [mass noun]
1The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town to collect local folklore....
- The official figure was fifteen rebels dead, but later local folklore had it as high as seventy.
- Ancient folklore has it that even Setanta was legless more than once.
Synonyms
mythology, lore, oral history, tradition, folk tradition;
legends, fables, myths, folk tales, folk stories, old wives' tales
technical mythus, mythos
1.1A body of popular myths or beliefs relating to a particular place, activity, or group of people: Hollywood folklore...
- Expect plenty of Russian folklore and myth and a chance to sing Russian Christmas song Father First.
- It consists of a systematic survey of the lake monster theme in the legends and popular folklore of Québec.
- Two popular supernatural figures in Iraqi folklore are the Tanttel and the Su'luwwa.
Derivatives
folkloric
- This instrument is deeply and lovingly ingrained into the folkloric traditions of its people.
- No analysis connects themes to their historical context, literary tropes, or traditional folkloric continuums.
- The Congo is rich in folkloric tradition, and generalizations are difficult in a country with dozens of ethnic groups.
folklorist
/ noun ...- Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts.
- Seán, who died at the age of 93 in 1966, was one of Ireland's most renowned folklorists.
- According to folklorists, the play in Thrissur is almost a century old.
folkloristic
- The limerick is a fixed-phrase folkloristic genre, meaning that the reciter performs a given text exactly verbatim each time s/he narrates it.
- It additionally contributes important new pieces to the anthropological and folkloristic study of many different segments of Northern Irish society.
- The story is about cultural beliefs, which are the essence of folkloristic transmission.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from folk + lore1.