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Intellectual Cultural Heritage
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No.
Domain
Definition
Category
10) “Other kinds of products” mean other
traditional handicraft products that cannot be
c l a s s i fi e d i n t h e a f o r eme n t i o n e d n i n e
categor ies and may involve those handicraft
products made from locally available materials
or waste materials, for example.
3.
Folk literature
“Folk literature”means the oral
or written literature that is
transmitted through the folk
way of life.
1) “Folk tale”means the stories that are transmitted
from generation to generation by words of mouth,
namely myths, religious tales, didactic tales, fairy tales,
romantic tales, legends/sages, explanatory tales,
animal tales, ghost tales, jokes/humorous anecdotes,
formula tales;
2) “Oral history” means stories about the history of
settlement, resettlement, exodus, and the background
history of a community and its important persons;
3) “ I ncantat i on or r i tua l chant” means
the incantation or chant that is used in the various rites
and rituals such as the Bot Tham Kwan (incantations
used in the heartening rite to invoke the guardian-spirit),
Kham Bucha (chants of worship) , Kham Sama
(incantations for asking forgiveness), Kham Wen Than
(incantations for transferring the merit), Bot Suat
Sora-phan-ya, Kha-tha Bot Anisong, incantations
used in folk medicine and faith healing, blessings,
chants of invocation or prayers etc.;
4) “Folk chant” means the words of the songs
and chants that are transmitted in the society during
various occasions such as lullaby and nursery rhyme,
Bot Rong Len, Bot Kiao-pha-rasi (courtship ritual
dialogue), Bot Joi, Kham Soeng etc.;
5) “Idiom and adage” mean the words or sayings
which are transmitted from generation to generation
in the society and which often rhyme - for example,
rhetorical expressions, epigrams, aporisms, metaphors,
slogans, mottos, swear words/vows, curses/spells,
eulogies, Kham Khanong (slangs) etc.;
6) “Riddle” means wordplays in the form of
questions, which have been transmitted within
the society -- for example, riddles, trick questions,
and Phami;
7) “Treatise” means a body of knowledge
and information recorded, written or inscribed in old
manuscr ipts, for example, texts on astrology,
physiognomy, medicines etc.