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
Some of them are simply the artistic and literary rendering of popular legends, whose counterparts may be found in the folk literature of other lands.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
