Noun
Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
Source: Webster's dictionaryfolk-lore
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. Hart Crane
Devizes, Quintet Publishing: 25. English Folk-lore, prior to 1865, showed shape shifters to be vulnerable to silver. Source: Internet
The folk-lore motif of the dragon guarding gold, may have come from earlier Bronze Age customs of introducing serpents to village granaries to deter rats or mice. Source: Internet
Journal of American Folk-lore. Source: Internet
His seven later books are the chief Danish authority for the times which they relate; his first nine, here translated, are a treasure of myth and folk-lore" (Elton, Introduction). Source: Internet