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.
[show] The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos, known as the British Band, crossed the Mississippi River, into the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but he was apparently hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been ceded to the United States