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What is Folklore?
- The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.
Der traditionelle Glaube, die Mythen, die Erzählungen und die Praktiken eines Volkes, die mündlich überliefert werden.
- The comparative study of folk knowledge and culture. Also called folkloristics.
Die vergleichende Untersuchung des Volkswissens und der Volkskultur. Auch Folkloristik genannt.
- 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.
- A popular but unfounded belief.