Folklore Unit 2

Meme

1. A group of items sharing common characteristics of content, form and stance

   1. Content: ideas or messages communicated by the meme

   2. Form: physical manifestation of the meme

   3. Stance: ones position or atitude

2. Created with awareness of each other

3. Circulated, imitated, or transformed by many users

Memetic

Study of memes

Folk belief

Unofficial, traditional beliefs that that operate a part from but also alongside powerful social institutions

Folk Religion

Believed, practiced, and experienced in everyday life—not study of official religion

Magic

Ritualized actions or symbolic objects used with varying degrees of belief, to bring about or avert a specific outcome through unseen forces or non-empirical causation

Folk Medicine

Community transmitted healing knowledge and practice outside or alongside biomedical

Legend

Mono-episodic narrative presented as miraculous, uncanny, or bizzare

FOAF

Friend of a friend

Ostension

The process of enacting the legend rather than telling it or narrating it — legend tripping or copy-cat crimes