Across
- 3. the boiled down juice of human living
- 7. pop/institutional culture’s attempt to appropriate aspects of folklore, to douse itself in “ odor of folklore” in order to associate itself with authenticity as a means of branding itself, tapping into the communal spirit of folklore, conferring vernacular authority
- 8. a playful or mischievious trick intended to be funny and amusing without causing real harm of physical damage
- 9. unrestrained talk about people usually about one’s own social group
- 11. prose narratives which are regarded as fiction
- 13. stories told as a sacred truth, and which are set in a sort of prototype of our world
Down
- 1. unverified information that come from unverified sources, just something you heard, tend to deal with bigger events and social groups
- 2. institutionally manufactured stuff that poses itself as a folklore in order to advertise
- 4. stories that are told as literally true (though not necessarily believed), and set in the real world
- 5. Eugene Shepard invented this creature in order to attract people to Rhinelander, WI
- 6. adults who have an affinity for the show "My Little Pony"
- 10. informal language used in vernacular culture; some terms have significance to specific folk groups
- 12. the enactment, rather than the telling, of a folk narrative (turning something we say, into something you do)