Meaning of folk memory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The collective lore, beliefs, and traditional stories which help to define a society, culture, or nation.
   uncountable, usually
2. A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known.
   countable, usually

Examples

“That leisured past . . . is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel.”

“James Wilson would have⟳ been bewildered and horrified to learn⟳ that 150 years later Britain is credited in the Irish folk memory—and general liberal opinion—with callously allowing a million people to starve⟳ to death.”

“Arguments about the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.”

“But behind these folk-memories of national history, extending over more than a thousand years, there is, in the popular consciousness, a dim background of a far earlier period.”

“In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to "Shoney," a sea fairy, in order⟳ to bring⟳ seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween.”

“Did the watchers retain⟳ a folk memory that they themselves resulted from a mating of different types: a black human and a pale Neanderthal?”

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