A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
The incident that I call Black Hawk Down certainly disabused us of that, Bowden tells Arun Rath, host of All Things Considered. After the Battle of Mogadishu, Clinton said that it was a mistake for the United States to play the role of police officer in Somalia.