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Storytelling falls under the umbrella of broader oral traditions and can take either the form of oral history or oral tradition. [9] The difference between the two is that oral history tells the stories that occurred in the teller's own life while oral traditions are passed down through generations and reflect histories beyond the living memory of the tribal members. [9]
The Australian Aboriginal people painted symbols from stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art, and dance. [3] Traditionally, oral stories were committed to memory and then passed from generation to generation.
Storytelling was used to explain natural phenomena, bards told stories of creation and developed a pantheon of gods and myths. Oral stories passed from one generation to the next and storytellers were regarded as healers, leaders, spiritual guides, teachers, cultural secrets keepers and entertainers.
A traditional Kyrgyz manaschi performing part of the Epic of Manas at a yurt camp in Karakol. Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
It all comes from contemporaneous accounts from the 1910s through the 1940s, as found in official records and newspapers, as well as the stories passed down to the families of those who lived them.
In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales.
12,000-year-old ritual passed down 500 generations may be world’s oldest. Issy Ronald, CNN. July 4, 2024 at 10:59 AM. ... means that stories can be told,” David said. “And if you take just ...
Research has long been a backbone of the genre. But beyond the textbooks, there's a whole world of family stories that have not yet become history. They deserve their place in fiction, too.