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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 ...
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.
Medieval storytellers were expected to know the current tales and, in the words of American storyteller Ruth Sawyer, "to repeat all the noteworthy theses from the universities, to be well informed on court scandals, to know the healing power of herbs and simples (medicines), to be able to compose verses for a lord or lady at a moment's notice ...
Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection; Folk and Fairy Tales; Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria; Folk-Tales of Bengal; Fox Tales; Le Foyer breton
Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the European countryside, the American Old West, the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually humorous or good-natured. The line ...
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Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...