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Definition: The traditional beliefs, practices, customs, stories, jokes, songs (etc.) of a people, handed down orally or behaviorally from individual to individual. More...
Also Known As: folklife, folkways
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Unlike literature, the folklore of a society is rarely written down or published except by those who collect and study it.

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