folktale

n. traditional superstition or story of a people which has been passed down 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. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
(synonym) folk tale
(hypernym) narrative, narration, story, tale
(hyponym) Arabian Nights' Entertainment, Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights
(part-holonym) folklore
(class) flying carpet

Synonyms and related words:
Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, ancient wisdom, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, bedtime story, common law, custom, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk motif, folk story, folklore, gest, ghost story, horse opera, immemorial usage, legend, lore, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, racial memory, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, whodunit, work of fiction
  

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