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Folklore
Folklore (or lore) consists of legends, myths, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.
Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.
Folk literature features folkloric elements in the form of novels, short stories, children tales, poetry or other narratives.
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The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of castor - an extract from the beaver's perineal glands. Little packets containing the brown-orange mass of dried animal matter arrived from Detroit at the Post Office's "general delivery." At home, by the kerosene light, the recipients unwrapped the packets. A poor relative sometimes would be given some of the fibrous gland, bitter and smelling slightly like stro
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― Moon of the Wolf
― Moon of the Wolf

“
An old man plays the bagpipes
In a gold and silver wood;
Queens, their eyes blue like the ice,
Are dancing in a crowd.
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― When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
― When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales

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