folk literature

That said, a lot of folk literature supports this concept.

From a young age, Trong was interested in folk literature, according to a biography posted to the website of Vietnam National University, where one of his first published works - a 1967 review of folk poetry - is on display.

She spent time researching the history of abuse in queer relationships, studying motifs in folk literature and myth and figuring out how to confront painful memories.

His second wife, Setsu, knowing his love for folk literature in general and ghost stories in particular, scoured secondhand bookstores for such stories, read them, committed them to memory, and then recited them in English to Hearn in their bedroom, late at night, “having lowered the wick of the lamp on purpose,” as she put it.

Yet the British Library has not created a dry display of dusty, ethnographic curiosities and folk literature.