English
fakelore
Blend of fake + folklore.
Proto-West Germanic *fegōn ‘to clean up, polish’
Old Saxon fegōn
Middle Low German vēgen
German Low German fegen
English feague ‘to spruce up, embellish’
English fake
Today it means
noun Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fakelore