Also known as The Grimms' Fairy Tales, this is the most influential of all folklore collections and one of the most beloved books of all time. At this site are listed all the stories' titles, in English and in German, plus their Aarne-Thompson-Uther type classification numbers.

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'traditional beliefs and customs of the common people,' 1846, coined by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-1885) as an Anglo-Saxonism (replacing popular antiquities) in imitation of German compounds in Volk- and first published in the 'Athenaeum' of Aug. 22, 1846; see folk + lore. Old English folclar meant 'homily.'

This word revived folk in a modern sense of 'of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally,' and opened up a flood of compound formations: Folk art (1892), folk-hero (1874), folk-medicine (1877), folk-tale (1850; Old English folctalu meant 'genealogy'), folk-song (1847, 'a song of the people,' translating German Volkslied), folk-singer (1876), folk-dance (1877).

Dictionary Entries near folklore

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