"folk memory" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988 Aug. 21, Julia O'Faolain, \"Bard of the Bar\" (review of A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories by Benedict Kiely), New York Times (retrieved 8 June 2014)",
          "text": "That leisured past . . . is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 3, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “No need to apologise for the potato famine”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-06-08",
          "text": "James Wilson would have been bewildered and horrified to learn that 150 years later Britain is credited in the Irish folk memory—and general liberal opinion—with callously allowing a million people to starve to death.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 18, Peter Beresford, “Harassing people on benefits degrades us all”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-06-08",
          "text": "Arguments about the \"deserving\" and \"undeserving\" poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.",
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        }
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        "The collective lore, beliefs, and traditional stories which help to define a society, culture, or nation."
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          "stories",
          "story"
        ],
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          "define",
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          "society",
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          "culture",
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        "(uncountable) The collective lore, beliefs, and traditional stories which help to define a society, culture, or nation."
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        {
          "ref": "1898, The Scottish Review, volume XXXII, page 126",
          "text": "But behind these folk-memories of national history, extending over more than a thousand years, there is, in the popular consciousness, a dim background of a far earlier period.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913 December 20, The Fitzroy City Press, Melbourne, page 4, column 5",
          "text": "In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to \"Shoney,\" a sea fairy, in order to bring seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186",
          "text": "Did the watchers retain a folk memory that they themselves resulted from a mating of different types: a black human and a pale Neanderthal?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known."
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        "(countable) A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known."
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        {
          "ref": "1988 Aug. 21, Julia O'Faolain, \"Bard of the Bar\" (review of A Letter to Peachtree and Nine Other Stories by Benedict Kiely), New York Times (retrieved 8 June 2014)",
          "text": "That leisured past . . . is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 June 3, Ruth Dudley Edwards, “No need to apologise for the potato famine”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-06-08",
          "text": "James Wilson would have been bewildered and horrified to learn that 150 years later Britain is credited in the Irish folk memory—and general liberal opinion—with callously allowing a million people to starve to death.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 18, Peter Beresford, “Harassing people on benefits degrades us all”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-06-08",
          "text": "Arguments about the \"deserving\" and \"undeserving\" poor . . . underpinned the popular fear and loathing of the workhouse that endure in folk memory.",
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        }
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      ],
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          "culture",
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        "(uncountable) The collective lore, beliefs, and traditional stories which help to define a society, culture, or nation."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1898, The Scottish Review, volume XXXII, page 126",
          "text": "But behind these folk-memories of national history, extending over more than a thousand years, there is, in the popular consciousness, a dim background of a far earlier period.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913 December 20, The Fitzroy City Press, Melbourne, page 4, column 5",
          "text": "In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to \"Shoney,\" a sea fairy, in order to bring seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186",
          "text": "Did the watchers retain a folk memory that they themselves resulted from a mating of different types: a black human and a pale Neanderthal?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known."
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        "(countable) A belief, traditional story, or the like, which is common to the people of a particular culture; especially, such a belief or piece of knowledge that is not consciously held but is nonetheless known."
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