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| Folk Customs | traditional practices learned by word of mouth and passed on orally and by example |
| Folklore | sayings, songs, poems, tales, legends, or any peice of knowledge which have been handed down by word of mouth for generations until they have become a part of the common heritage of people |
| Tradition | A long established custom or practice that has the effect of an unwritten law |
| Customs | established usages and social conventions carried on by tradition and enforced by social disapproval of any violation. |
| Ethnic | belonging to a cerain grou having common traits and customs related to races: a shared feeling of peoplehood with the focus on language |
| Dialect | The form or variety of a spoken language peculiar to a region, community, social, or occupational group |
| Culture | Teh beliefs, habits, skills, arts, instruments, and institutions of a given people in a given period |
| Regional | Pertaining to a particular area or region of the country |
| Anthropologists | students or specialists in the study of races -- physical and mental characteristics, distribution, customs, social relationships, etc., of mankind -- often restricted to the study of the institutions,myths, etc. of primitive people |
| Archives | Places in which public records or documents are preserved |
| Informant | One who supplies cultural or linguistic information in response to interrogation to an investigator |
| Folklore Atlas | Maps on which are recorded genre and location of folklore |
| Anonymous | With no name known or acknowledged |
| Anecdote | A short, entertaining account of some happening - usually personal or biographical |
| Folk Hero | any person admired for his quialities or achievements and regarded as a model of the people. A forlk hero personifies the honored values of his people |
| Fakelore | Not genuine lore -- that which is altered |
| Verbal Folklore | Folklore that is spoken |
| Proverbs | A saying in common use that expresses some truth or familiar experience |
| Riddles | Problems or puzzles in the form of a question |
| Prose Narrative | Stories |
| Tall Tale | An exaggerated tale, usually humouous. |
| Myth | An imaginary tale usually concerned with superhuman beings or gods, that attempts to account for something in nature |
| Folk Songs | Mad and handed down among the common people, usually of anonymous authorship and often have many versions |
| Ballad | A narrative poem, often meant for singing, charaterized by simplicity of language. Ussualy deal with basic subjects such as love, honor, or death |
| The American Blues | A type of Negro folk song |
| superstition | A belief or practice involving magic, chance the supernatural, omens, charms: a belief that is inconsistent with the known laws of science |
| Hex | To bewitch, jinx, cast a spell: to put this on is to practice witchcraft. |
| Calendar Customs | : St. Patrick's Day, April Fool's Day, Halloween,Christmas, New Years Eve, etc. |
| Folk Dance | : Popular dancing, Square dancing, and Play party |
