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Here There Be Dragons!Here There Be Dragons!FolkloreFolklore

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IMPORTANCE OF FOLKLOREIMPORTANCE OF FOLKLORE

To familiarize students To familiarize students with forms of immaterial with forms of immaterial folk culture and oral folk culture and oral tradition, and to guide tradition, and to guide them in the central them in the central analytic viewpoints and analytic viewpoints and methods of research.methods of research.

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The The The concept of folklore emerged in Europe midway in The concept of folklore emerged in Europe midway in the nineteenth century. the nineteenth century.

Originally it connoted tradition, ancient customs and Originally it connoted tradition, ancient customs and surviving festivals, old ditties and dateless ballads, archaic surviving festivals, old ditties and dateless ballads, archaic myths, legends and fables, and timeless tales, and myths, legends and fables, and timeless tales, and proverbs.proverbs.