Folk-lore

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of folklore. alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, obsolete, uncountable

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ancient wisdomarchetypal mytharchetypal patterncharmcommon lawcustom

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"This collection, which I commend to the notice of the Folk-Lore Society, is very curious and original, abounding as it does in extraordinarily bizarre and beautiful variants of the best-known fairy tales, a very natural result of the peculiar combination in Roumanian of such heterogeneous elements as Romance, Slavonic, Magyar, and Turkish."

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