Folklore The Life of Buddha by K.E. Sullivan My short story was "The Life of Buddha" by K.E. Sullivan. Folklore is a term for the verbal, spiritual, and material aspects of any culture that are transmitted orally, by observation, or by imitation. People sharing a culture may have in common an occupation, language, ethnicity, age, or geographical location. This body of traditional material is preserved and passed on from generation to generation, with …showed first 75 words of 664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 664 total…a creative activity and as a body of unsatisfied beliefs has not vanished. The various research aims and procedures of anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, linguists, and literary scholars have modified considerably the former tendency to look upon folk literature and folk customs either as quaint and romantic or as somehow inferior. Folklore has come to be regarded as part of the human learning process and an important source of information about the history of human life.