Folklore comes in many different forms. One way to look at it is by category. There are three basic categories of folklore:

• Oral Lore
• Social & Folk Custom (Customary Lore)
• Material Culture

Another way is to just jump right in and look at some examples of folklore, so click on this button to do so!!

Yet another way to approach folklore is by the ethnic or social group an item, belief, or story comes from, so click here to go to a cool site with examples of folklore from around the world (http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/tales.html).

For a definition of folklore, click here.

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