Examples of folk memory

• Use of ancient writings is again combined with a statement of long-standing practice, reflecting a society that was still in the early nineteenth century based on custom and folk memory.

• Warren believed all these mythical lands were folk memories of a former inhabited far northern seat where man was originally created.

• There are evident advantages in mobilizing the folk memory of pre-modern cultures of song to generate audience solidarity.

• The rhetoric used in such situations often made an appeal to long-standing folk memory and a tradition of timeless territorially stable parishes.

• These were in some ways fuelled by the content of a folk memory which often appears to be divorced from the events of the revival itself.

• That is the picture, that is the folk memory, by which our nation has been formed.

• In the winter of 1978–79, which has gone into folk memory as the winter of discontent, the fabric of society was disintegrating fast.

• Anyone who has experienced a means test, or has a family folk memory of the means test from days gone by, realises the implications.

• It will not be easy because those traditions are in our folk memory and in people's historical dimensions.

• I am sure that they will do it on the basis of folk memory—quite rightly so.

• Sometimes, the feelings of outrage, which can superficially seem unreasonable, are about a folk memory that goes deeply.

• Distrust of beef products will probably remain as a folk memory for a long time.

• We are surely in danger of losing an important part of local history and folk memory.

• Such collective action is within our close folk memory, yet we have made great advances since then.

• It has ensured that rule by faction has become a folk memory and that governments stay or change as soon as the results of the election become clear.