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Storytelling |
Folklore | Guild |
Personal Story
Storytelling: an essential part of folklore, the oldest art form. Early
storytellers utilized plot, characters, setting, and performance skills that
much later would be part of written literature, religious ritual, dance and
theater.
Folklore: This word was coined 150 years ago to describe practices as
old
as humankind. Folklore refers to cultural practices passed on by tradition
rather than print. It includes but is not limited to creation stories, myth,
legend, saga, comic stories, supernatural stories (called by many
names), folk song and dance, charms, rhymes, riddles, magical practice,
games, aphorism and anecdote, festival and holiday traditions, custom and
ritual. A growing new study of workplace lore includes opera and theater
stage traditions as well as lore of fire stations.
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Guild: Dating from the beginning of the organization of independent
cities, skilled craftsmen and artists formed associations to guarantee the
quality of their work and protect their professional and financial
interests. They became quite powerful, an influence on the development of
the concept of civic political as well as social institutions. Universities
and business corporations both might not have existed without the example of
guilds. One such early guild was the stonemasons, which developed into the
Masons Fraternal Society.
Personal Story: These are developed from teller's own life experience
or
from the life experience of someone interviewed. Incidents may be
selected, edited or dramatically enhanced, but remain essentially true to
the original.
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