folktales

  • 1folktales —    This term can be used either broadly or narrowly. In the broad sense it applies to all prose narratives following traditional storylines, which are told orally, or were so told in previous generations. It thus covers *fairytales, *legends of… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 2Folktales (album) — Infobox Album Name = Folktales Type = Album Artist = The Big Wu Released = October 17 2000 Recorded = Genre = Rock and Roll, Jam band Length = Label = Phoenix Rising Producer = Jeff Roberts Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5… …

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  • 3folktales — n. traditional superstition or story of a people which has been passed down from generation to generation …

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  • 4Folktales of Mexico — Mexico has a variety of cultures which came from European and Mesoamerican cultures. This mix of cultures leads to the creation of traditional tales and narrations better known as legends and myths. Contents 1 Myths 1.1 Prehispanic Mexican Tales… …

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  • 5Italian Folktales — ( Fiabe Italiane ) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. Calvino began to undertake the project that will lead to the Italian Folktales in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp s Morphology of the Folktale ;… …

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  • 6Norwegian Folktales — Asbjørnsen og Moes norske folke og huldre eventyr. Edition from 1896. Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske Folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as… …

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  • 7African American folktales — are the storytelling and oral history of African American culture.Also see: * Gullah storytelling * Br er Rabbit …

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  • 8folk literature — Introduction also called  folklore  or  oral tradition        the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of cultures having no written language. It is transmitted by word of mouth and consists, as does written literature, of both prose and… …

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  • 9List of fairy tales — This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as… …

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  • 10FOLKLORE — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction …

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