as in mythology
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place
the Scottish Highlands are rich in folklore
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Recent Examples of folklore
For example, English folklore says that Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday will never spoil throughout the following year, amongst other luck-giving stories.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
The small town is also a hub for Albanian folklore, with traditional music performances and crafts on display.
—Food Drink Life, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
By the time Saturday Night Live had been around for a quarter of a century, in 2000, a folklore developed among S.N.L. aspirants around the way Lorne Michaels hires people.
—Susan Morrison, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
But experts debunked the myth as folklore, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
—Jessica Botelho, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
The small town is also a hub for Albanian folklore, with traditional music performances and crafts on display.
—Food Drink Life, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
By the time Saturday Night Live had been around for a quarter of a century, in 2000, a folklore developed among S.N.L. aspirants around the way Lorne Michaels hires people.
—Susan Morrison, airmail.news, 22 Feb. 2025
But experts debunked the myth as folklore, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
—Jessica Botelho, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folklore
Noun
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Freya — one of the most powerful and beloved deities in Norse mythology — is the goddess of love, beauty, fertility and magic.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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The meaning comes from various stories in Hindu mythology.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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In keeping with the tradition of the Ingenieur, a soft-iron inner case shields the movement against the effects of magnetic fields.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Those laws grew out of the state’s progressive tradition, which sought to restrain the power of wealth in the political system.—
Dan Kaufman,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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To add to the information overload, there are flashbacks, self-aware references to classic whodunits, digressions into White House lore presumably mined from Kate Andersen Brower’s book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, which inspired the show.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to lore, the company turned down a chance to buy Netflix in 2000.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Folklore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folklore. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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