Synonyms for folklore
ˈfoʊkˌlɔr, -ˌloʊrfolk·lore

Princeton's WordNet

1. folklorenoun

   the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

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1. • Lore

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1. List of paraphrases for "folklore":

   folk, folklife, lore

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1. Francesco Andoli:

   This is not a question of folklore, it is about culture, our identity, our dignity as a people that has shown we can look after our saint ourselves.

2. Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance:

   Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .

3. Toni Morrison:

   I also wanted to use black folklore, the magic and superstitious part of it, black people believe in magic. Once a woman asked me, Do you believe in ghosts ? I said,' Yes. Do you believe in germs ?' It's part of our heritage.

4. Asya Engovatova:

   Batu Khans conquest was the greatest national tragedy, surpassing any other event in cruelty and destruction, it is not by chance that it is among the few such events that made its way into the Russian folklore.

5. Adam Brumm:

   The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.