Folklore

A European folk tale, Little Red Riding Hood; illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1911

Folklore is part of the culture of a group of people. It may include stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, and popular beliefs. This also includes the oral traditions of that culture. The academic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. Folkloristics is often ethnographic.

Little Red Riding Hood is a famous folktale in European culture.

Folklore Media

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  Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

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  Indian Folk Worship at Batu Caves, Selangor Malaysia

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  Folk dancing, Plovdiv Bulgaria

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  Serbian Folk Group, Music and Costume. A group of performers sharing traditional Serbian folk music on the streets of Belgrade, Serbia.

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  مزارعين بالملابس الرفيه في الحقل

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  Folklore theater in Mansoura, Egypt

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  United Arab Emirates traditional folk dance, the women flip their hair sideways in brightly coloured traditional dress.

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  The story of Jahangir and Anarkali is popular folklore in the former territories of the Mughal Empire.

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  Horse and sulky weathervane, Smithsonian American Art Museum

• Traditional highlanders' pins hand-made by a goldsmith in Podhale, Poland

• Presentation of traditional Wallachian pipes at the Wallachian Open Air Museum, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic, 2017