Folktale

Hear her captivating rendition of one of Zora Neale Hurston’s lesser known short stories and an enticing adaptation of a popular Haitian folktale that originated in Nigeria.

La Llorona is arguably the most famous folktale to come out of Mexico.

This edgy riff on a Japanese folktale tells the tale of a blind priest and a disfigured outcast who make incredible music together.

Tortoises are familiar trickster figures in West-African folktale — a constant in the exploration of various ethical propositions.

As for its story, it draws from Greek, Jewish, and Mesopotamian fables to tell a folktale about life and death.

The book is an adaptation of a Burmese folktale about the power of kindness.

We will employ a folktale to explain our present predicament.

Sure, the Prince Ali thing could be misconstrued for some blatant Aladdin reference, but really, was Disney’s rendition of the classic Arab folktale that bad?

Hailing from Pittsburgh and New Orleans, but with their folktale-focused folk punk influenced by their world travels, they'll provide some vim and vigor to The Boxcar Studios' whimsical stage setup.

A child questions God(s) at an early age, is shushed and asked to desist, gets more curious, reads the Bible (with reason, and you know reason can never go with religion) and realizes bit-by-bit how much of a myth/folktale they’ve been taught!

That will involve creating paper mache and folktale art.

The whole thing has the demented, unhinged quality of a very black and ancient folktale, disturbing not least because the morality of two real-life victims play-acting for Mikhailov’s camera is so ambiguous.

A folktale is a story that forms part of an oral tradition, and does not have a single, identifiable author.

Boas strove to prove this theory, and his efforts produced a method for breaking a folktale into parts and then analyzing these parts.

Definition From The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Giovanni Francesco Straparola Although the fairy tale is a distinct genre within the larger category of folktale, the definition that marks a work as a fairy tale is a source of considerable dispute.

In the Swedish folktale Little Rosa and Long Leda, an elvish woman (älvakvinna) arrives in the end and saves the heroine, Little Rose, on condition that the king's cattle no longer graze on her hill.

Japanese folktale Shiofuki usu speaks of a grindstone that could be used to create anything.

Many legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted. citation The Brothers Grimm defined legend as folktale historically grounded.

Questions of categorising legends, in hopes of compiling a content-based series of categories on the line of the Aarne-Thompson folktale index, provoked a search for a broader new synthesis.

Swann Jones, p. 40. Such literary forms did not merely draw from the folktale, but also influenced folktales in turn.