Topic summary
Memorate
A memorate is a term in folklore studies for a first-person personal experience narrative, typically presented as a truthful account of an extraordinary event (often but by no means always involving a supernatural being or paranormal occurrence). Memorates are usually told in the speaker's own voice and framed as something that happened to the narrator (or, in some usage, to someone the narrator knows closely), which distinguishes them from more fully traditionalized legends and other narrative genres.