Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

This reveals the strength of Beowulf's oral history as poetic flow were prioritised over dialect / grammatical coherency.

This oral literature is mainly tradited by the " Griots " ( Jɛliw in Bambara ) who are a mixture of storytellers, praise singers and human history books who have studied the trade of singing and reciting for many years.

The university Archives holds copies of all university publications, oral histories of faculty and staff members, surviving remnants of university correspondence, and pictures and artifacts related to the Jones family and the history of the university.

Folklore ( or lore ) consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Original audio and transcript archived with Voices of Oklahoma oral history project.

But unlike Herodotus, Hecataeus did not record events that had occurred in living memory, nor did he include the oral traditions of Greek history within the larger framework of oriental history.

These oral histories often contained folk-tale motifs and demonstrated a moral, yet they also contained substantial facts relating to geography, anthropology and history, all compiled by Herodotus in an entertaining style and format.

It focuses attention away from the elites and politicians to " history from below ," looking at the peasants using folklore, poetry, riddles, proverbs, songs, oral history and methods inspired by anthropology.

Other scholars of the Hebrides and inhabitants of the region do not consider this a myth, as there are sufficient records in both the oral tradition and the written compilation of those records that predate both Pennant and Anton by a century or more that preserve the history of this tradition.

Scholarly techniques such as the recording of oral history, historical linguistics, archaeology and genetics have been crucial.

* Listen to Dr Bob Parkinson discuss the HOTOL in an oral history interview recorded for the National Life Stories project Oral History of British Science at the British Library

The Aztec oral and pictographic tradition also described the history of the Toltec empire giving lists of rulers and their exploits.

The tribe's oral history tells that they once lived north of the Great Lakes.

The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at Columbia University.

Oral historians in different countries have approached the collection, analysis, and dissemination of oral history in different modes.

However, it should also be noted that there are many ways of creating oral histories and carrying out the study of oral history even within individual national contexts.

Authors such as Studs Terkel, Alex Haley, and Oscar Lewis have employed oral history in their books, many of which are largely based on interviews.

In another important example of the genre, a massive archive covering the oral history of American music has been compiled at the Yale School of Music.

oral history had become a respected discipline in many colleges and universities.

At that time the Italian historian Alessandro Portelli and his associates began to study the role that memory itself, whether accurate or faulty, plays in the themes and structures of oral history.

Since the early 1970s, oral history in Britain has grown from being a method in folklore studies ( see for example the work of the School of Scottish Studies in the 1950s ) to becoming a key component in community histories.

Strong oral traditions in the area warned of the importance of moving inland after a quake and is credited with saving many lives.

Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, the maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures, and their impact on the human body.

In their oral tradition the Mende still describe themselves as being a mixture of two peoples: they say that their original members were hunters and fishers who populated the area sparsely in small peaceful settlements ; they say that their leaders came later, in a recent historical period, bringing with them the arts of war, and also building larger, more permanent villages.

According to Bakweri oral traditions, that they originated from Mboko, the area southwest of Mount Cameroon.

Some historians have suggested that Sánchez built his account on an indigenous oral tradition local to the area, a variant of the earlier legend of the appearance of the Virgin of Los Remedios.

Legends associated with the Pāhoa area are referenced in Hawaii's ancient oral history, i. e., in the Pele and Hi ' iaka Myth.

According to oral tradition, " a Swede " traveling through the area named the town for Sevastopol, Crimea.

* Bishop, oral address Bishop — an area bishop in The United Methodist Church.

Beginning with the Class of 2016, the core curriculum was modified to reduce the required credits in natural science and social science, while adding credits in a " core focus " area, as well as proficiencies in intensive writing, oral communication, diversity, and civic engagement.

Arguably the published collection of oral material was made in this area by John Broadwood, as Old English Songs, As Now Sung by the Peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex ( 1843 ).

This resulted in the replacement of Eyak by Tlingit among most of the mixed groups after a few generations, as reported in Tlingit oral histories of the area.

* Teton Dam Collection – Oral History reports and newspaper articles, includes more than 50 oral history interviews of those living in the area when the disaster occurred.

On biopsy, the three exophytic masses turned out to be oral carcinomas, while the surrounding hyperkeratotic area showed histologic features of oral lichen planus.

The Ibibio have lived in the Cross River area of modern day Nigeria for several hundred years, and while written information about them only exists in colonial records from the late 19th century on, oral traditions have them in the region much earlier than this.

Consequently, many of the school's research efforts are focussed on conditions that are prevalent or endemic to the local area, for example, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, tuberculosis and other chronic lung diseases, HIV, oral disease, and cancer.

Cultural and oral traditions indicate that the Mende migrated to the area from the western Sudan in several waves between the 2nd and 16th centuries, and are part of greater Mande society and linguistic group.

Another of Tony's brothers, Pasquale Spilotro, Jr., went on to college and became a highly respected oral surgeon in the Chicago area.

One cluster of accounts preserved in the 18th and 19th century oral tradition of Loyalist settlers in the area around Long Point, Ontario, draws mostly on stories told by the wife of local settler Frederick Mabee in the early 19th century and portray Ramsay as a quintessential " pioneer hero " figure who strikes out at local natives only in preservation of his life and property, against the onslaught of the local Ojibwa people who sought to harm him without cause.

Treatment consists of resting the affected area, cutting away dead tissue, and antibiotics ( either oral or intravenous ).

Our investigation indicates that possible criminal acts include: oral sex, fondling of genitals, buttock or chest area, and sodomy, possibly committed under the pretense of " taking the child's temperature.

The oral variants of this tale are very limited in area.

According to oral tradition, the earliest name for the settlement in this area was the Khoekhoegowab word ǂkhoandabes, the place where the elephant came to lick.

The oral tradition of the area consistently gives Cill na Mullach, or ' Church of the Hillocks ', for Buttevant.