fakelore
Definitions
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- noun Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Examples
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If the difference between folklore and "fakelore" is that someone has to be self-consciously deliberate about inventing a past, the difference may only exist in a meaningful way for a short period of time until others start experiencing the fakelore as folklore.
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Neopagans are experts in this kind of historical fabrications, but there are examples of "fakelore" almost everywhere.
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His research is pretty good, but he's only human -- he repeats "fakelore" like the Mad Gasser of Mattoon uncritically.
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Incorporating Indian characters or traditions helps to establish a fantasy as American rather than stuck within those dominant British and other European traditions; Chabon has spoken explicitly about that goal in writing Summerland, which also includes the heroes of traditional American folklore (and fakelore), as well as a whole lot more.
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By the time of the Soviet Union, however, it had become one of many groups playing sanitized folk music, now often called fakelore.
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Whether a story be folklore, fakelore, or just an error, it becomes "fact" through repetition, an oral or written mantra if you will.
Note
The word 'fakelore' is a compound of 'fake' and 'lore'.
