folk memory

noun

1. the memory of past events as preserved in a community

Example Sentences

In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honouring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians' folk memory.

From Reuters

He added folk legends of being able to walk between lands now separated by sea could be a folk memory stemming from rising sea levels after the last ice age.

From BBC

“Then he turned to me and said, ‘It’s in the folk memory.’”

From New York Times

Beyond that, there's the folk memory of the intense violence which accompanied Northern Ireland's birth.

From BBC

His ancestors fled hunger and poverty in the 1850s, a folk memory steeped in Biden when he grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which he has described as called an overwhelmingly Irish parish.

From The Guardian