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Noun(1) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs(2) the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture(3) tales from the past

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(1) Here he encouraged students to collect folklore from their home communities and established an archive for the material.(2) Hollywood folklore(3) In American folklore , however, the same activity is associated with modern Greeks.(4) The brass band played traditional army marches as well as folklore motifs and jazz pieces.(5) The first concerns social historians' attitudes towards the folklore corpus.(6) Devi's life story, which has revolved around caste conflicts, has entered Indian folklore .(7) Narratives in the Bible and Native American folklore are prime examples.(8) Dazzling feats from the turbo-charged toes of Michael Owen have yielded many unforgettable moments in football folklore .(9) Ancient folklore has it that even Setanta was legless more than once.(10) Two popular supernatural figures in Iraqi folklore are the Tanttel and the Su'luwwa.(11) In Bulgarian folklore tradition, masked games serve as ritual blessings for good health, fertility and well-being.(12) Her Artwork is informed by an interest in the folklore traditions associated with landscape.(13) The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town to collect local folklore .(14) In any case the cricket folklore among this cricket crazy populace stands to be enriched.(15) There is no doubt had he been given the opportunity, he would have written himself into Australian cricket folklore .(16) The official figure was fifteen rebels dead, but later local folklore had it as high as seventy.
Related Words
(1) folklore
(2) folk
(3) lore
Synonyms
Noun
1. mythology
2. lore
3. oral history
4. tradition
5. folk tradition
9. folk tales
10. folk stories
11. old wives' tales
12. mythos


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