'Folk' means people and 'lore' means unwritten stories, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, and songs of a culture. So, it is clear that folklore is the creation of people's artistic mind. According to the Free Online Dictionary folklore means the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.Folklore represents a society's ethnicity, culture, tradition, and its way of thinking. Folklore embraces the simplicity, spontaneous action, laughter, comfort, lively spirit of the local people and is the reflection of past art and culture and a medium of ramification of those cultural heritages.
Author: Mohammed Ali Milu |
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Publication Date: Nov 11, 2014 |
Number of Pages: 34 pages |
Binding: Paperback or Softback |
ISBN-10: 150317395X |
ISBN-13: 9781503173958 |