English > folklore: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture. |
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| Category of | Oberson | (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore |
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| Titania | (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore |
| banshee, banshie | (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death |
| dybbuk, dibbuk | (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior |
| elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp | (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous |
| goblin, hob, hobgoblin | (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings |
| golem | (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means |
| kelpy, kelpie | (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders |
| lycanthropy | (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics / characteristics of a wolf |
| ogre | (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings |
| peri | (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done |
| troll | (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature / creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains |
| vampire, lamia | (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living |
| Parts | folktale, folk tale | A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk |
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| Broader | lore, traditional knowledge | knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote |
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| Spanish | folclore, folclor, folklore |
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| Catalan | folklore |
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