Saturday, March 8, 2014

Folklore

Folklore





I was still a child ,When I heard many different fantastic entertaining stories , jokes, legend, proverbs, different fairy tale that gives moral lesson ,inspiration not knowing that it is what folklore. Folklore is all about the traditional customs , saying , dances and art that was preserve and being past from generation to generation. It is Consist of oral history, music ,legend ,stories ,popular belief , fairy tale and customs that includes in the traditional culture. Folklore is still alive and more developed in our time nowadays because it serve as a mirror to us and still continue to entertain people.




According to De Los Reyes,"folklore, it is particular task of the folklorist together popular data about illiterate and simple people, which are still unknown"(25).

De los Reyes, Isabelo. El Folk-Lore Filipino. Quezon City: Bookman Printing House, 1994.




Dr. Damiana Eugenio said that folklore is any bit of knowledge handed down from generation to generation, which describes or depicts the beliefs and lifestyle of the ancestor of the a chosen ethic group.(FOLKLORE)



 Dr. Damiana Eugenio. Introduction to Philippine Folklore.http://folklore.philsites.net/index.html . 2002