It is Oral tradition or sometimes referred to as oral culture or oral lore
By mouth, from father to son.
Such stories can be called fables, myths, legends, or folklore.
They are called myths
lire
Stories passed down by word of mouth are oral traditions.These stories are also known as folk stories or folk tales.
Legend. It started in the middle ages invented them and we still have some of there stories. today
Oral history is history that was not written down as it happened but after it had been passed down by word of mouth. Great grandparents told their children who told their children who told you. It was also stories that were handed down from generation to generation in cultures so that it would be remembered. Eventually it would be written, but when it was finally written there were no living wittnesses.
a story that is handed down from the past is called a legend
Sasana is one word for the whole of the teachings. They tend to be organized into small stories, called suttas ("threads"), and the suttas gathered into works called nikayas.
Legend
People often refer to stories about the past that are not written down as oral history or oral traditions. These stories are passed down through generations by word of mouth.
Oral history is history that was not written down as it happened but after it had been passed down by word of mouth. Great grandparents told their children who told their children who told you. It was also stories that were handed down from generation to generation in cultures so that it would be remembered. Eventually it would be written, but when it was finally written there were no living wittnesses.