folk history
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They might be right about that, but the oft-repeated folk history is wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
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
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
The choice of folk history rather than written history gives a freshness of treatment and elasticity of material which made the late J.M.
From Magic A Fantastic Comedy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
