THE CONTRIBUTION OF ENGLISH FOLKLORE TO THE WORLD

Abstract

First of all, we want to answer a question, like: What is folklore? Folklore is made of two words: folk, which means regional people,and lore ,which means stories. Therefore, folklore reflects stories told by people in a particular region. Folklore can explain a population's values, beliefs, and preferred way of life with its literary themes.The term folkloristics, along with the alternative name folklore studies .They study on folklore.This can be exemplified by Thomas,William Bascom.They are also folklorists.Because they work and research on folklore .And also they focus on the study of human creativity within specific cultural and social contexts, including how such expressions (for example: stories, music, material culture and festivals) are connected to political, religious, ethnic, regional, and other forms of group identity.