folkloren.
/ˈfəʊklɔː/, U.S. /ˈfoʊklɔr/ a. The traditional beliefs, legends, and customs, current among the common people; the study of these.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > folklore or folk culture
folklore1846
folk-culture1936
1846 Ambrose 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).
1861 Ecclesiologist 23 279 Mr. Lee gives us a piece of folks-lore.
1863 F. M. Müller Chips (1880) II. xxi. 206 A healing virtue is ascribed in German folk-lore to the mistletoe.
1884 A. 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.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun] > popular or unreasonable belief
superstition1771
mythology1823
folk faith1850
folklore1954
1954 Economist 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.
1959 J. Braine Vodi xvii. 211 She was always the Little Woman, almost the Pretty Little Nursie of masculine folklore.
1959 Listener 5 Nov. 763/1 Finland..has a special niche in American folklore, under the caption: ‘Brave little Finland’.
1971 Nature 29 Jan. 293/2 The Santa Barbara oil spill..may not be entirely worthy of its place in contemporary ecological folklore.
Derivatives
ˈfolklorism n. a piece of folklore.
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1886 Sat. Rev. 28 Aug. 306 The Revue..contains divers ‘folklorisms’.
ˈfolklorist n. a student of folklore.
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1876 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 6 12/2 Success to the Folk-Lore Society! An Old Folk-Lorist.
1888 Bullen Peele's Wks. I. Introd. 11 The Ghost of Jack ought to be an object of interest to folklorists.
folkloˈristic adj.
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1888 Science 12 132 Some interesting philological and folk-loristic information.
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