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The 268 pages that link to Oral tradition, each with the reason it gives.

• Izumo no OkuniNarrower topic: Much of Okuni’s biography comes through traditions recorded after her lifetime.

• Jabir ibn ZaydRelated: Early reports about Jabir circulated in scholarly networks before surviving written accounts.

• Origin mythRelated: Many origin myths persist through repeated oral telling and adaptation.

• Patrick ChamoiseauRelated: His narrators draw on storytelling practices that written French literature often marginalizes.

• PoetRelated: Oral traditions show that poets can create and transmit poetry without relying on print.

• YowieRelated: Oral transmission helps explain how stories associated with the yowie vary across place and time.

• Bernardine EvaristoRelated: Her writing draws on speech rhythms and storytelling practices alongside literary forms.

• Creative writingNarrower topic: Creative expression long preceded writing and remains shaped by oral forms.

• Farida ParveenRelated: Lalon songs circulated through singers and performance before many were preserved in recordings.

• Frère JacquesRelated: The song’s many versions and uncertain early history reflect transmission through performance.

• Gārgī VāchaknavīRelated: Gārgī’s surviving presence depends on a textual tradition shaped by oral transmission.

• Great SpiritRelated: Community-specific teachings about spiritual powers are often carried through oral traditions.

• João Guimarães RosaRelated: Narrators, sayings, and spoken rhythms give his written fiction the force of oral storytelling.

• Juan RulfoRelated: Rulfo’s dialogue draws on rhythms and idioms of spoken rural Mexican life.

• Juan SantamaríaRelated: Accounts of Santamaría’s deed circulated within a broader culture of patriotic storytelling.

• Judah ha-NasiRelated: Mishnaic teachings circulated orally before and alongside their compilation.

• KapilaRelated: It helps explain how teachings attributed to Kapila could circulate without securely datable writings.

• Kikuyu languageRelated: Kikuyu oral forms preserve histories, proverbs, and communal knowledge across generations.

• Louise ErdrichRelated: Her novels often use communal voices and storytelling structures that resonate with oral traditions.

• ManitouRelated: Meanings of manitou are embedded in language and teachings carried within particular communities.

• Mia CoutoRelated: Couto adapts oral storytelling techniques and communal memory into written fiction.

• ParemiologyNarrower topic: Many proverbs circulate orally before, alongside, or independently of written records.

• Polynesian mythologyNarrower topic: These narratives were carried through performance and inherited knowledge rather than a single canonical text.

• Religious textRelated: Some religious writings preserve teachings and narratives previously transmitted orally.

• Sao civilizationRelated: Regional oral accounts have influenced interpretations of the Sao's relationship to later societies.

• Sirat Bani HilalNarrower topic: The epic’s continuity depends on transmission outside a single authoritative text.

• TukaramRelated: Singing and recitation helped preserve Tukaram’s poetry beyond written manuscripts.

• Amr ibn KulthumRelated: Amr’s poem reached later literary culture through a tradition of recitation and transmission.

• Bantu religionRelated: Stories, praise, and ritual knowledge have often been transmitted orally across generations.

• Battle of Blue WatersNarrower topic: Local traditions have sometimes informed proposed locations where written evidence is limited.

• Berber musicRelated: Songs and poetic performance carry local histories and language across generations.

• Berber traditional religionRelated: Ritual knowledge and sacred stories were often transmitted without a single canonical scripture.

• BogeymanNarrower topic: The bogeyman's changing forms spread through family warnings and local storytelling.

• Cædmon's HymnRelated: Bede’s account describes Cædmon learning and composing song in an oral setting.

• Catherine FlonRelated: Oral transmission may help explain the persistence of details about Flon’s role.

• Culture of OceaniaRelated: Oral histories and teaching carry knowledge where written records are not the primary means of transmission.

• Dunama II DibalemiNarrower topic: Oral accounts supplement written evidence for Kanem’s medieval past.

• Dutty BoukmanNarrower topic: Accounts of Boukman and Bois Caïman were preserved and reshaped beyond written colonial records.

• Epic of King GesarNarrower topic: Gesar’s story has circulated through performers rather than a single authoritative written text.

• Epic-Puranic chronologyRelated: Oral transmission can preserve lineage traditions while reshaping their details over time.

• Hand gameRelated: Songs and verbal conventions can carry the game’s rules and cultural knowledge.

• History of AfricaRelated: Oral accounts preserve political genealogies and events that written archives may omit.

• History of Central AfricaRelated: Oral accounts preserve histories often absent from written archives.

• History of danceRelated: Many dance histories depend on embodied teaching rather than written records.

• History of literatureCompared with: Its practices show that literary histories extend beyond written texts.

• Huseng SisiwRelated: Stories about de la Cruz's teaching and verse circulated in a culture where literary memory was often oral.

• Iram of the PillarsRelated: Oral accounts can preserve place memories, but do not fix Iram’s identity.

• KathasaritsagaraRelated: The collection belongs to a storytelling culture shaped by circulation and retelling.

• KokopelliNarrower topic: Community-held narratives convey meanings that archaeological images alone cannot establish.

• KumbayaRelated: The song circulated in changing versions through communal singing before fixed arrangements spread.