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The editorial, which included the famous reply "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", has become a part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada. [24] The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by American author Washington Irving. The story, from Irving's collection ...
This period of time became romanticized and idealized in literature and art to form a myth. Richard Slotkin , a prominent scholar on the subject, defines the myth of the frontier as "America as a wide-open land of unlimited opportunity for the strong, ambitious, self-reliant individual to thrust his way to the top."
Folklore of the United States. Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture, or group. These include oral traditions such as tales , proverbs and jokes .
Folklore of the Southern United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. A. Alabama folklore (2 C, 5 P)
Boys will undergo an official initiation into the tribe by participating in ceremonies that recount the tribes' mysteries and myths. [30] [31] See also: Earth-maker myth; Kuksu – a religion in Northern California practiced by members within several Indigenous peoples of California. Miwok mythology – a North American tribe in Northern ...
The myth of the First Thanksgiving is the mythologized retelling of a 1621 harvest feast by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts as the foundation for the modern Thanksgiving holiday as celebrated in the United States. Also called the Thanksgiving myth, this description of events has been criticized by both Indigenous peoples of the United ...
Supernatural animals, often hybrids, sometimes part human, whose existence has not or cannot be proved and that are described in folklore, but also in historical accounts written before history became a science. For fictional creatures of the United States created with sardonic intent, see Category:Fearsome critters.
Reportedly haunted locations in the United States by state (43 C) A. Alabama folklore (2 C, ... folklore (2 C, 11 P) North Carolina folklore (2 C, 2 P) North Dakota ...