fakelore

English

Etymology

Blend of fake +‎ folklore

Noun

fakelore (uncountable)

1. Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
   • 2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.

Translations

manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional

• French: fakelore (fr) m
• Russian: псевдофолькло́р m (psevdofolʹklór)