folk memory
Britishnoun
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In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honouring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians' folk memory.
From Reuters ● May 7, 2023
The idea that a folk memory could preserve history 4,000 years old may seem preposterous, but there were also folk tales that gods built the passage tombs to affect the solar cycle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
David Renton, a barrister and author specialising in rightwing extremism, speaks of the left’s anti-fascist folk memory, of the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism in the 1970s.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2020
Gov. Phil Bryant last week went further, likening it to the 1927 flood that lives on in books, songs, movies and the folk memory of the Magnolia State.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2019
This Scotland was urban with a collective folk memory of displacement from a rural past.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2014
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