Folklore
Folklore noun - The body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place.
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Synonyms for Folklore
Legends
Folklore and legends are semantically related in often fictitious topic. You can use "Folklore" instead a noun "Legends". popular alternative
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Older Than Feudalism, she appears constantly in legends and folklore around the world, and is the villain of many a Fairy Tale.
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The rebooted games, from Legend onwards, establish the idea of the "monomyth", that all the legends and folklore of the world can be traced back to a "single remnant of the ancient world".
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The second was that, since it was produced for Latin America, it included a lot of folklore and legends from Latin America that are rarely seen anywhere else.
Source: Tabletop Game / Mitos Y Leyendas
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