Folklore has always been around and I believe it will never die,

No matter where you go, there is a large chance there’s lore linked to the city, building, block, or even a stream. every corner of the globe has their own versions of similar or ever wildly different folklore, you just need to know where to look to find it. There might be stories of ghosts or stories of tall creatures who lived in the mountains for years, you just have to ask. let your mind wonder and wander, ask what comes to mind, there might just be someone there to answer your questions.

“Folk is a flexible concept which can refer to a nation as in American folklore or to a single family.”

In an Essay wrote by Alan Dundes, he talks about how there was a golden age of folklore and through the retellings of the stories they become less and less of the original work. With every song sung that song is closer to disappearing, retelling is destruction but he then goes on to say that folklore is not a dying thing but perhaps just subgroups are fading away. As the world becomes more literate it does not mean that we lose the idea of folklore it just changes and evolves along with us as we continue to grow.

“there has always been folklore and in all likelihood there will always be folklore”

Folklore as been around for as long as we’ve been talking, its a way to entertain and a way to teach. when thinking about folklore the mind can go to many different subgroups. there is arts, games, dances, city names, prophecies, stories,  and even nursery rhymes. Many things are planted in folklore.

 

source:

Dundes, Alan. “The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory.” Journal of the Folklore Institute, vol. 6, no. 1, 1969, pp. 5–19. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3814118.