folk memory

noun

1. the memory of past events as preserved in a community

Example Sentences

The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

From The Daily Beast

The British guests, perhaps united by a folk memory of Colditz, swapped advice on how to game the system in hushed whispers.

From The Daily Beast

American Jews carry a folk memory of the deep poverty of rural Eastern Europe.

From The Daily Beast

It is that the folk-memory of the Druids and their magical practices is alone responsible for the Fairy-Faith.

From Project Gutenberg

This theory is that the whole fairy-belief has grown up out of a folk-memory of an actual Pygmy race.

From Project Gutenberg

And Douglas Hyde's dramas grow directly from the folk-memory.

From Project Gutenberg