The meaning of the term ‘folklore’ is “the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc of a people”. The term ‘folklore’ was coined in 1846 by W. J. Thomas (1803-85), an English scholar and antiquary. A. K. Ramanujan, an Indian Scholar did a lots of work in the field of folklores. His work is Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages, 1991. Malinowski and Radclife-Brown treated folklore as a very essential and integral element in a living culture.

Folklores are essentially an oral literature comprising stories, songs, proverbs, riddles etc. Folk stories are usually fairy or ghost stories or animal stories. Folklores play an important role in the life of human being, it's not mere only a entertainment it's also a knowledge passing through generation to generation. Folklores are helpful to understand a culture.

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