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According to the oral tradition of the Inuit, '''Tizheruk''' (also called Pal-Rai-Yûk) is a mythical large

The zana has been mentioned in numerous folklores and oral tradition of Albania. In the Albanian folktale, The Lover's Grave, the zana appeared

...lar belief]]s current among a particular population, comprising the [[oral tradition]] of that culture, [[subculture]], or [[group (sociology)|group]]. The acad ...19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did

*Julie Carthy. ''Folklore in the Oral Tradition, Fairytales, Fables and Folk-legend''. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

...most famous pieces of mythology, having been adapted from written and oral tradition into pantomime and song formats. ...into a song, written in 1867 by C.M. Leumane (it has now passed into oral tradition and has several slightly different variants).The List of dialects of the En

...es that are perceived as ''actually having happened,'' within the specific tradition of indoctrination where the legend arises, and within which it may be trans Before the invention of the printing press, stories were passed on via oral tradition. Storytellers learned their stock in trade: their stories, typically from

In the oral tradition of the Hopi, a ''powaqa'' is a sorcerer who comes to a victim pretending to

...or legend, and λογος ''logos'', an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of '''myths''' – stories that a particular culture believes to ...very religious narrative is a myth however; unless it is deeply rooted in tradition, it may also be trivial pious anecdote or [[legend]].

The legend of the Black Flash stayed largely a local oral tradition, until 1984 when Robert Ellis Cahill wrote a book titled ''New England’s

...'' are the tales, [[legend]]s, and [[superstition]]s that exist within the oral history of the [[Jews]]. There is very little early [[folklore]] distinct f ...g, or washing (Pesachim 109b), Rabbi Dunai recognized that this was an old tradition (ib. 110b). A remarkable custom mentioned in the Talmud is that of plantin

When these oral narratives were first translated into English, a distinction between the "b ...ishes in exchange for three questions answered truthfully. There is also a tradition in Scotland of a single washer at the ford, the goddess Clotha, who gives t

...lished in Russia shortly after the German pamphlets, and (3) Romanian oral tradition. 3. Romanian Oral Tradition

...tion of origin. Many of these events are also found in the Romanian verbal tradition. Specific details may vary among the different versions of these anecdotes ...e. Similarly, the name of Dracula is still remembered in the Romanian oral tradition but that is the end of any connection between Dracula and the vampire myth

...ay have contributed. These include unsupported rumours, superstition, oral tradition, sensationalist publications, and a folklore rich in tales of fairies and s

...nt of chemistry out of alchemy was a "corruption" of the original Hermetic tradition. This is the view espoused by contemporary practitioners of spiritual alche ..., the centre of alchemical studies in the Roman Empire, the art was mainly oral and in the interests of secrecy little was committed to paper. (Whence the