Talk:Mormon folklore

message: For this article in particular, I think citations are key. Please don't add examples of Mormon folklore unless you can provide a citation for it. Otherwise the article could contain — quite literally — anything anybody wants to make up. Snocrates 02:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of references

message: One definition or connotation of "folklore" is, "a body of widely held but false or unsubstantiated beliefs.".http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/folklore  Is this article suggesting that all of the examples given are "false or unsubstantiated"?  Although some of the tales have been refuted by Church leaders or other evidence, many of the stories are still found in current Church lesson manuals (i.e., Church members believe them to be "history," not "folklore").  Should the article make any attempt to distinguish between history and folklore?  Should it clarify that some of the "folklore" may, in fact, be true? 
-Milkncookie 01:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you carefully read the article I think you will find the definition of "folklore" set out as well as a disclaimer that "folklore" does not equal "untrue". The distinction being made here is between folklore and church doctrine, not folklore and truth. Snocrates 01:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History versus folklore 

message: Think we should split out the two types of stories.  There are lots of Mormon "tales" but popular beliefs relating to doctrine, church history, etc. are really quite distinct.  And, of course, the Three Nephite stories, unique to Mormon folklore, fall into the belief category.  Anyone want to help define the two categories?  WBardwin (talk) 21:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tales and Popular beliefs

message: Should this article mention that the [Journal of Discourses] may have passed into the realm of Mormon Folklore where it maybe studied as same? Prsaucer1958 (talk) 03:42, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. I've never seen any LDS take the Journal of Discourses seriously; it's about as canonical as the Alvin Maker series. 69.49.67.186 (talk) 21:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Journal of Discourses as Folklore 

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