Portal:Folklore
Template:/box-header Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions), of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. While folklore can contain religious or mythic elements, it equally concerns itself with the sometimes mundane traditions of everyday life. Contemporary folktales common in the Western world include the urban legend and the conspiracy theory. There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not consider them to be folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors, gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life cycle rituals. Template:/box-footer
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Saint Guinefort was a 13th century dog that received local veneration as a saint after miracles were reported at his grave. His story is a variation on the well-travelled 'faithful hound' motif, perhaps better-known to Anglophones in the form of the dog Gelert. The cult of this dog saint persisted for several decades, until the 1930s, despite the repeated prohibitions of the Catholic Church. Template:/box-footer
Template:/box-header Expand stubs: Viltis • Vytautas Beliajus
Articles needing expansion: Intangible Cultural Heritage • List of folk dance performance groups • National Folk Festival (USA)
Articles needing major improvement: Automobile superstitions • Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts
Requested articles:
- The Aarne-Thompson classification system or motif index of folktales, based on the work of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson.
- life cycle rituals
- Redlinks at List of European folk music traditions and other locations' lists.
- A general article on children's folklore
- de:International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
Other:
- Add more content to this portal
- Add the {{Portal|Folklore}} portal link to folklore-related articles
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- that the nursery rhyme Three Little Kittens uses the idiom "smell a rat" to ironically suggest that the kittens have engaged in deception to get more pie?
- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
—R. E. Shay
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Journal of Folklore Research
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis J. Child
- Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore
- Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan
- Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
- Western Yugur Folklore
- Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
- Folklore: Electronic journal of folklore
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