folk literature
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That said, a lot of folk literature supports this concept.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
Yet the British Library has not created a dry display of dusty, ethnographic curiosities and folk literature.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2015
Amid the newly exposed atrocities in our folk literature, Caxton’s back-and-forthing on the subject of Reynard’s morals does not appear so shocking.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015
If its subject matter comes from folk literature, Titanic’s form is pure Hollywood.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012
While much of it is known to children long before they enter school, these jingles, like all folk literature, never lose their charm through repetition.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
