Folklore and Idea

Folklore

Folklore noun - The body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place.

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Idea and folklore are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Idea" instead a noun "Folklore".

Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.

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Folklore and idea are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Folklore" instead a noun "Idea".

Nearby Words: ideal, ideation

old	old folklore	old idea
common	common folklore	common idea
original	original folklore	original idea
popular	popular folklore	popular idea
Other adjectives: actual, real, early, traditional, general, odd, central, modern.

Furthermore, in some folklore, vampires are actually demonically possessed corpses and have nothing to do with the person who died to make them; the idea of a good vampire would make about as much sense to a medieval peasant as the idea of a good mass murderer.

Source: Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
Tolkien wrote the history of Middle-Earth as part of long running idea to create a British mythology that rivalled the far richer folklore such as Norse mythology.

Source: Backstory
The threat of becoming a zombie is scary, but the idea that the zombies themselves hurt people has no basis in folklore.

Source: Dead Unicorn Trope

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