Fakelore

Fakelore is a portmanteau from fake and folklore that shaped the North American folklorist Richard M. Dorson in 1950 in his article Folklore and Fakelore to delineate authentic oral tradition of deliberately fabricated products which claim to be folklore, but are not.

If Dorson in his Fakelore article in the Encyclopedia of the tale relates to the view of some scientists consider the Fakelore as " power with stultifying effect ", so this should describe his own position. Unlike the related concept of folklore, to put forward the German post-war folklore, Fakelore is a very strong evaluative term. Critics point to the problem of how to distinguish between fake and genuine folk tradition convincing in view of the diversity of interactions between the two areas.