Folklore
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Folklorists define urban legends as rumors or stories that are spread informally and widely accepted as truth. This spreading informally is typically orally but can take place in many other different ways. Often, such lore dwells on freakish disasters or ghoulish behavior. Folklorists are those peo ....
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.... be defined as "comprising of traditional creations of peoples, primitive and civilized. These are achieved by using sounds and words in metric form and prose, and include also folk beliefs or superstitions, customs and performances, dances and plays. Moreover, is not a science about a folk, but a traditional folk-science and folk-poetry" (Balys, 255). The term "folk" means "working class, marginalized, and grassroots" (Montenyohl, 230). The term traditionally meant, according to Montenyohl ....
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