EVERY DAY LIFE STORIES & LEGENDS MORES & CUSTOMS POPULAR ART TEXTILES HANDICRAFTS FOLKSONGS

POPULAR CULTURE       In a harmonious way, today keeps totally alive customs that pass from generation to generation. The popular culture of Greece presents exceptional interest, not only because of the wealth and the explicitness of its individual forms, but also because of the survival or the echo of elements of the ancient and Byzantine tradition. The folklore, the science of the traditional culture, includes fairy tales, fables, riddles, proverbs, traditional games, folk songs and traditional music instruments, dances, popular art, professions, occupations, residence and dress of people of different seasons, mores and customs, popular activities and feasts, theatre of shadows, popular perceptions for the heavenly bodies, the natural phenomena, health etc.