Mohammed Ali Milu

Cultural and Folklore Heritage of Bangladesh Mohammed Ali Milu

'Folk' means people and 'lore' means unwritten stories, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, and songs of a culture. So, it is clear that folklore is the creation of people's artistic mind. According to the Free Online Dictionary folklore means the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. Folklore represents a society's ethnicity, culture, tradition, and its way of thinking. Folklore embraces the simplicity, spontaneous action, laughter, comfort, lively spirit of the local people and is the reflection of past art and culture and a medium of ramification of those cultural heritages.