folklore

n. legends and beliefs of a people or particular culture (originally passed down orally from generation to generation)

For the Nelly Furtado album, see Folklore (album). For the Playstation 3 video game, see Folklore (video game)Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics.
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Noun
1. the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture
(hypernym) lore, traditional knowledge
(part-meronym) folktale, folk tale
(class) lycanthropy
(class) Titania

n. folklore, legends and beliefs of a people or particular culture

n. folklore, legends and beliefs of a people or particular culture (originally passed down orally from generation to generation)