folk storytellers
Oral tradition keepers
Folk storytellers are people who preserve and share traditional narratives within a community, passing down tales through oral performance rather than written text.
The tradition emphasizes personal delivery—voice, gesture, and audience interaction—over fixed scripts.
Folk storytellers might work at festivals, schools, or family gatherings: The folk storytellers kept the old legends alive for another generation.
- griotsHereditary oral historians
- bardsPoet-musicians of old
- raconteursSkilled tellers of anecdotes
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
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