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| Dec 31, 2016 at 18:00 | history | edited | user62 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | user62 | @TheEarth I'll edit this answer to (1) move my footnoted definition of folklore to the top of the answer, and (2) to clarify that the phenomenon of fakelore is mostly restricted to writings (e.g. stories) that claim to be exact recordings of folklore but are really based on artistic license. Since you know more about folklore than I do, is there anything else about this answer that I should edit? | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 14:45 | comment | added | user1618 | Dorson defines "fakelore" as "the presentation of spurious and synthetic writings under the claim that they are genuine folklore". So something like the "ploughman's lunch" (invented by advertisers of cheese in the 1950s) or the "full English breakfast", also known as the "full Scottish", etc., and first appearing as the "full American breakfast" (invented by advertisers of pork in the 1920s), wouldn't count because they are not written, although the name often is. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 14:42 | comment | added | user1618 | Your footnote improves your definition of folklore, which is not restricted to the oral tradition (and includes what people put on top of Christmas trees), and because some practices transmitted at least partly orally are not folklore (such as many songs). | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 18:53 | history | edited | user62 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2016 at 17:04 | history | edited | user62 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 22:05 | history | edited | user62 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 21:49 | history | answered | user62 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |