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oral tradition

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oral tradition
n.
The spoken relation and preservation, from one generation to the next, of a people's cultural history and ancestry, often by a storyteller in narrative form.


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The fables were in the first instance only narrated by Aesop, and for a long time were handed down by the uncertain channel of oral tradition.
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