Folklore Definition

fōklôr
noun
All of the unwritten traditional beliefs, legends, sayings, customs, etc. of a culture.
Webster's New World
The study and scientific investigation of these.
Webster's New World
A body of widely accepted but usually specious notions about a place, a group, or an institution.
Rumors of their antics became part of the folklore of Hollywood.
American Heritage
A popular but unfounded belief.
American Heritage
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Origin of Folklore

  • compound of folk + lore, coined in 1846 by William Thoms to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volksüberlieferung ("popular tradition").

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Folklore Sentence Examples

  • The native folklore and poetry of the Albanians can hardly compare with that of the neighbouring nations in originality and beauty.

  • The only review devoted to the study of folklore is the Sazatoare, founded in 1892.

  • Thus Sisyphus fettered Death, keeping him prisoner till rescued by Ares; in Venetian folklore Beppo ties him up in a bag for eighteen months; while in Sicily an innkeeper corks him up in a bottle, and a monk keeps him in his pouch for forty years.

  • Alecsandri (1852-1866), who, however, retained only their poetical beauty and did not reproduce them with that strict accuracy which modern study of folklore demands.

  • The Riesengebirge is the legendary home of Number Nip (Ri bezahl), a halfmischievous, half-friendly goblin of German folklore, and various localities in the group are more or less directly associated with his name.

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EREORE

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