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folklore|ˈfəʊklɔə(r)|
Also folk-lore.
[f. folk + lore.]
a. The traditional beliefs, legends, and customs, current among the common people; the study of these.
1846Ambrose Merton [W. J. Thoms] in Athenæum 22 Aug. 862/3 What we in England designate as Popular Antiquities, or Popular Literature (though..it..would be most aptly described by a good Saxon compound, Folk-Lore,—the Lore of the People). 1862Ecclesiologist XXIII. 279 Mr. Lee gives us a piece of folks-lore. 1863Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xxi. 206 A healing virtue is ascribed in German folk-lore to the mistletoe. 1884A. Lang Custom & Myth 11 Properly speaking, folklore is only concerned with the legends, customs, beliefs, of the folk—of the people.
b. Recently in extended use: popular fantasy or belief.
1954Economist 11 Sept. 8/1 Some scientists..add to the store of folk lore by asking whether the occasional flying saucer is not a Russian technician who has missed his bearings on the return to earth. 1959J. Braine Vodi xvii. 211 She was always the Little Woman, almost the Pretty Little Nursie of masculine folklore. 1959Listener 5 Nov. 763/1 Finland..has a special niche in American folklore, under the caption: ‘Brave little Finland’. 1971Nature 29 Jan. 293/2 The Santa Barbara oil spill..may not be entirely worthy of its place in contemporary ecological folklore.
Hence ˈfolklorism, a piece of folk-lore; ˈfolklorist, a student of folk-lore; folkloˈristic a.
1876N. & Q. 5th Ser. VI. 12/2 Success to the Folk-Lore Society! An Old Folk-Lorist. 1886Sat. Rev. 28 Aug. 306 The Revue..contains divers ‘folklorisms’. 1888Bullen Peele's Wks. I. Introd. 11 The Ghost of Jack ought to be an object of interest to folklorists. 1888Science XII. 132 Some interesting philological and folk-loristic information. |