The peculiarities of folklore in intellectual culture result from the fact that it is handed down orally. The present article is a study into one of its manifestations on the basis of family tradition.
Family tradition is a part of folklore.
Family tradition reflects events in the way most family members see and understand them. An individual narrator might not be able to make his topic familiar to the other members of the family. Consequently, family tradition could be treated analogically to, for example, student folklore spreading among students and covering corresponding topics, or schoolchildren or army folklore. In all these cases we can speak about the tradition of a small social grouping that is in principle in accordance with the general characteristics of folklore. Differences here arise from the tradition transmitter - the grouping, or, to be more exact, the way the special features of their activities and life style are transferred into the subject matter and style of oral tradition.