Here's the thing about folklore that oldguard academians tend to forget or ignore; everyone is folk!

So that urban legend you just heard and repeated to your friends — it's becoming folklore.

That thing you do to help you get through your day and showed your friends how to do — it's becoming a folk practice. Folk is not exclusively something that happened a long time ago or far away.

It's not just what your grandfathers and granmothers did and believed. It's not just a quaint belief or simple practice for uncomplicated people. It is certainly not static, frozen in time; an unchanging bit of tradition. It is not just to be found in ancient tomes, mouldering in some university or museum basement, nor in dusty monographs residing in academic journals, only accessible to the elite few.

And it does not need to be locked away in some bit of academic amber; its secrets to be finally revealed when the academics gain the tools to unlock them.

Folk is also happening right now, right where you are. You are folk; and if you are not, then who is?