folk way

plural folk ways

1. alternativeAlternative form of folkway.

   No one, reared in the folk ways of this particular subculture, growing up in it, understanding it, as he does, has spoken—not in its defense particularly, but from the 'inside.'

   1998, Dianne Watkins Stuart, “Home to Come Home To: 1965–1967”, in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer’s Life, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 181

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   From these supposed neolithic origins, the cult had declined with the advent of Christianity into a clandestine folk way practiced and handed down by a handful of individuals since medieval times, especially on the Welsh Marches, the place of its supposed prehistoric origin.

   2002, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, “Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon”, in Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, pages 217–218