Definitions
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- noun Manufactured
folklore presented as if it were genuinelytraditional .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yesterday, thinking about werewolves and "fakelore," working on promotional stuff for The Red Tree, I may have come a bit closer to understanding what the next novel is about.
"Love Song For a Vampire" greygirlbeast 2009
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Neopagans are experts in this kind of historical fabrications, but there are examples of "fakelore" almost everywhere.
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This is sometimes described as "fakelore" rather than folklore, see the Wikipedia article on that.
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If the difference between folklore and "fakelore" is that someone has to be self-consciously deliberate about inventing a past, the difference may only exist in a meaningful way for a short period of time until others start experiencing the fakelore as folklore.
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His research is pretty good, but he's only human -- he repeats "fakelore" like the Mad Gasser of Mattoon uncritically.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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Incorporating Indian characters or traditions helps to establish a fantasy as American rather than stuck within those dominant British and other European traditions; Chabon has spoken explicitly about that goal in writing Summerland, which also includes the heroes of traditional American folklore (and fakelore), as well as a whole lot more.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The mythology … folklore and fakelore, the personality cult … God, Jesus, Santa Claus, Subcomandante Marcos … vote for hoodie or loodie … maybe Chiapas and places like them reveal the difference between metaphysical hope and comfortable binkie-suck.
La Realidad: Romney "suspends" his "presidential campaign." 2008
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Folklorists sneer and call such things "fakelore."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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And others are ones whose time has obviously come, or possibly gone, in the way of slang -- automagically, bouncebackability, fakelore, hacktivist, voddy for vodka.
OED words added jinty 2006
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Yet Hulk was not a man to cater to any fakelore or superstition; he was supremely prac - tical.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
vanishedone commented on the word fakelore
'In Canada, certain unscrupulous manufacturers of faux Inuit art (sometimes called fakelore) have adopted tags that resemble ones with the official symbol of provenance authority.' ~ James O. Young, Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, p. 156
May 5, 2008