folklifes

variants or folklives
plural of folklife

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Noun
  • Alongside this darkness, Sage shares the traditions of her people that save her life, braiding her personal story together with Cree stories, and with the ceremonies that have carried her through times of need.
    Eliana Ramage September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Cultural influences can play a role, too, and some numbers are considered lucky or unlucky in different traditions.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Drawing inspiration from Norse and other mythologies, the trees of Middle-earth in the Lord of the Rings series are sacred beings, whose treatment stands as a moral litmus test.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Holocaust education is a necessary window into how modern fascism and white supremacy construct dangerous national mythologies to justify war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
    Sahar Mustafah August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • While most technology leaders have done their fair share to dispel these myths in favor of AI’s transformative potential, concerns of misinformation, security vulnerabilities and unpredictability still hum beneath the unstoppable swell of AI innovation.
    Monish Darda, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Without clear evidence, myths persist — and athletes hesitate.
    Starre Vartan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From causing supernatural events to creating hysteria, our orbiting nightlight has always had legends and folktales written about it.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 27 Aug. 2025
  • His work includes Tokyo Cancelled (2005), a collection of contemporary folktales, and a novel, Solo (2009), which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2010).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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