oral tradition
oral tradition
noun
a community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.
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oral tradition
the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of cultures having no written language. It is transmitted by word of mouth and consists, as does written literature, of both prose and verse narratives, poems and songs, myths, dramas, rituals, proverbs, riddles, and the like. Nearly all known peoples, now or in the past, have produced it.
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