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Folklore, a Record of Primitive Human History
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Folklore is older than the concept of cities in human history!
Folklore is as old as human civilization. It is more ancient than the concept of cities in the history of human civilization. Folklore grew with the consciousness of man and was spread wherever human beings moved.
Folklore, stories of a man with nature, unprecedented events of wilderness, and sometimes the fear of ghosts. Riddles, unidentified fears, and supernatural powers. This was a mixture of wisdom and transmission of stories from one generation to another.
In the context of cultural anthropology, folklore is the basic component of every culture around the world. From tribes in Africa to the plains of Asia, from European alps to the Americas…
