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Exploring Folklore: Concepts, Themes, and Artifacts

This quiz explores the concepts and themes of folklore, examining its various forms, social functions, and artistic expressions.

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1 The familiar folktale, "________," is an example of this fine line.

2 [5] The operative definition would depend on whether the artifacts are used and appreciated within the same community in which they are made, and whether they follow a community ________.

3 Examples of such ________ are the themes woven round Saint George or Saint Christopher.

4 Sometimes "folklore" is religious in nature, like the tales of the Welsh Mabinogion or those found in ________ skaldic poetry.

5 [citation needed] Thus, Roman religion is called "myth" by ________.

6 Folklore can also be used to assert social pressures, or relieve them, in the case of humor and ________.

7 Contemporary narratives common in the Western world include the ________.

8 Many of the tales in the ________ of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr.

9 Examples of artists which have used folklore to produce beautiful music would be: ________, Flatt and Scruggs, Old Crow Medicine Show, Jim Croce, and many others.

10 It has often been conflated with ________, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu.
  • according to Ukrainian folklore, the girl who finds Chervona Ruta, "Red Rue" in Ukrainian, on Ivan Kupala Day, will be happy in love.
  • the Queen of Elphame, the fairy from Scottish folklore, has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie.
  • according to Breton folklore, not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length every seven years from within their coffin.
  • weather lore is essentially folk meteorology and varies widely in its veracity.
  • Boris Kovač’s folklore music is influenced by the twenty nationalities of the Pannonian Plains.
  • Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador which is revered in local folklore as a protective parent.
  • Knecht Ruprecht, a figure in Germanic folklore, is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus.
  • tradition credits King Gebra Maskal Lalibela with carving the monolithic churches of Lalibela from stone with his own hands, helped only by angels.
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