Oral Tradition what is it? After writing and sharing with you Aesop and his fables, it got me thinking, what is oral tradition? We know that Aesop lived during the time when the written word was not ...

Before the gospels were composed, Jesus' first followers sustained his memory by sharing stories of his life, death and teachings. It's rather clear from the way that the stories develop in the ...

The Koogere oral tradition is based on the female chief of Busongora, Koogere, who existed 1,500 years ago. The narratives, songs and poems describe her wisdom and philosophy that focus on plenty and ...

Mohsin Siddiqui, 12, and his mother Rukshana Patel, in the musalla, or prayer room, of the Muslim Community Center of Charlotte. Inside a mosque in north Charlotte, 12-year-old Mohsin Siddiqui sits in ...

A key value of passing down a culture by word of mouth is that it takes on so many different forms in the process, reflecting changes in people's mentality and social reality. Now an online database, ...

Preface: oral history and oral traditions / Stephen J. Augustine -- Introduction: a layering of voices: Aboriginal oral traditions / Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod -- The assault on Aboriginal oral ...

I remember well my grandmother's wake. I was sent to bed early but could still hear voices coming from the kitchen as bottles of McArdle's were passed around the table. I slept in the box room with ...

Athenian historians correctly identified that the city's port, Piraeus had been an island thousands of years before. Oral tradition is very underrated by moderns. We did manage to keep and share ...