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Folklore
Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.
Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.
Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.
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“
An old man plays the bagpipes
In a gold and silver wood;
Queens, their eyes blue like the ice,
Are dancing in a crowd.
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― When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
― When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
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Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fan
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