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Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic; Sirat Bani Hilal, an Arabic epic recounting the journeys and conquests of the Bani Hilal tribe; Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi-Yazan, is a popular Arab romance about life of Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan; One Thousand and One Nights, also known as "the Arabian Nights", is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales
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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 ...
Cúchulainn – Ireland, folk legend and the pre-eminent hero of Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle. Moremi Ajasoro – Nigeria, Yoruba queen and heroine of Ife; Till Eulenspiegel or Tijl Uilenspiegel – Germany and the Low Countries, trickster and jester. Fionn mac Cumhaill – Ireland, warrior, leader of the Fianna. Primary figure in the Oisin cycle.
Folk art depictions of Nommos show creatures with humanoid upper torsos, legs/feet, and fish-like lower torsos and tails. Nommo are the first living creatures. According to Dogon Astrology, the Nommos were inhabitants of a world circling the star Sirius. The Nommos descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder.
Folklore by country (100 C, 27 P) Folklore by ethnicity (16 C, 2 P) Folklore by region (9 C, 6 P) ... List of world folk-epics; World Tales This page was ...
Folk music by country (29 C, 75 P) Traditions by country (45 C, 1 P) A. American folk culture (7 C) Azerbaijani folk culture (3 C, 1 P) B. Belarusian folk culture (4 C)