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Children's books based on fairy tales (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Children's books based on folklore" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Mythology books (12 C, 68 P) O. One Thousand and One Nights (4 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Books about folklore" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of ...
Irk Bitig, a book about Turkic legends from Dunhuang, China; Alpamysh, a Turkic epic; Alp Er Tunga, a Turkic epic; Epic of Manas, a Kyrgyz epic; Book of Dede Korkut (Korkut Ata), an Oghuz epic; Oğuzname, an Oghuz epic; Kutadgu Bilig, a Karakhanid epic; Mupamipa, a Lahu epic; Olonkho, a Yakut
Front cover of Folklore: "He loses his hat: Judith Philips riding a man", from: The Brideling, Sadling, and Ryding, of a rich Churle in Hampshire (1595). Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) [1] is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song that's told or sung to young children. The term dates back to the late-18th and early-19th centuries in Britain where most of the earliest nursery rhymes that are known today were recorded in English but eventually spread to other countries. [6]
In this sense, oral lore is an ancient practice and concept natural to the earliest storied communications and transmissions of bodies of knowledge and culture in verbal form from the dawn of language-based human societies, and 'oral literature' thus understood was putatively recognized in times prior to recordings of history in non-oral media ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
List of creation myths; List of legendary creatures by type; List of mythology books and sources; List of mythological objects; List of culture heroes; List of world folk-epics; Lists of deities; Lists of legendary creatures; National myth; Mythopoeia