Folklore Figures to Explore Folklore: the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture lycanthropy - (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf lore, traditional knowledge - knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend" ogre - (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings troll - (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains dibbuk, dybbuk - (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior goblin, hob, hobgoblin - (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings kelpie, kelpy - (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders Oberson - (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore Titania - (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore peri - (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done golem - (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means |
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