folk history
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Valdimar Johannsson, the director of “Lamb,” a new Icelandic film about a couple’s animal-child, said Icelanders understand their folk history “as a normal thing, and don’t consider it to be supernatural or horror.”
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021
“There had been some kind of folk history that it happened in the 1870s or 1880s when the document was in a print shop in Philadelphia to be mounted,” Ritzenthaler said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2016
All three, needless to say, are also about time; "Bernie" is in part about how we remember folk history through the prism of the years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2014
The Hillsborough disaster and the fight for justice is now a tale that will be woven into the folk history of our islands.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2012
Lay my burden down; a folk history of slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.
