oral tradition
pl: oral traditions
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folkloreoral historyloreliteracydocumentationstorytellingmythlegendfablesagaepicnarrativecultureheritageancestrygenealogymemorymnemonicrecitationchantsongballadpoemversedialectlanguagespeechvoicespeakerstorytellerbardskaldtroubadourelderancestorcustomritualbeliefmythologyfolktaleparableanecdotetransmissionpreservationlegacytraditioncustomaryprimitiveindigenoustribalethniccommunitysocietyknowledgewisdomarchaicancientprehistoricspokenverbalauditorylisteningrepetitionvariationadaptationevolutionchroniclearchivemanuscriptscripturetextalphabetwritingscribecodexhistoryanthropologyethnographysociologylinguisticsphilologyfolkwaysuperstitiontabooritualism