folk way

folk way (plural folk ways)

1. Alternative form of folkway
   • 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:

     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.'

   • 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:

     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.