0 the knowledge that people have about something that happened in the past because parents have spoken to their children about it over many years
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.
