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- thinks the distinction between myths and folktales may be useful,G. S. Kirk ... * folktales/fairytales–stories which lack any definite historical ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- this archive contains over 23,000 folktales, classified according to ... * bin Gorion, Micha J. Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:16, 21 June 2024
- Lamia receives a section in Georgios Megas and Helen Colaclides, Folktales of Greece (Folktales of the World) (University of Chicago Press, 1970). ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 21:41, 7 March 2025
- The Grimms were not the first to publish collections of folktales ... in the early 1800s. Brentano collected folktales in much the same way as ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- * folktales/fairytales–stories which lack any definite historical ... thinks the distinction between myths and folktales may be useful, ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 12:13, 2 June 2025
- ==Folktales== Joan, there are also numerous medieval folktales. Once such story describes ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 22:17, 13 April 2026
- structural units. Propp's work broke folktales down into a series of functions ... According to Propp, based on his analysis of 100 folktales from the ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 23:03, 24 May 2023
- under the title Totkv Mocvse/New Fire:Creek Folktales. Among Swanton's most famous works on the Haida are his Contributions to the Ethnology ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 03:30, 31 January 2025
- and tranquility, is a recurring motif in many folktales and legends of ancient India. [[File:Mahatmas Visitor Room.JPG|thumb|400px|Mahatma Gandhi ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- their communities. Collections of Indian folktales have circulated in written ... ==Folktales== [[Image:Bhutanese painted thanka of the Jataka Tales ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- To select works for his analysis, Propp used all Russian folktales ... to their literary forms, no such pure folktales exist–nor do pure literary ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- as may be seen in Greek, Norse, or Slavic folktales, along with Native American/First ... African American literary criticism and folktales are not the only ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- type of more ethereal creature. Many folktales are told of fairies, and ... enchantress or wise woman. Also, not all folktales that feature fairies are ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- times throughout the vast corpus of Chinese folktales and literature. In the most popular account, He Xiangu is characterized as a poor peasant ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 09:15, 20 January 2024
- *Radin, Paul. 1987. African Folktales (New Ed. edition). Schocken. ISBN 0805207325 *Radin, Paul. 1990. (original work from 1923). The Winnebago ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 04:45, 3 November 2025
- * Leeming, David Adams, and Jake Page. 1999. Myths, legends, and folktales of America: an anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- Italo Calvino included in his Italian Folktales a similar tale of a princess imprisoned in a tower, "The Canary Prince," though the ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 16:26, 20 May 2026
- Basile claimed to be passing on oral folktales from his region that he had collected over the years when he described large, speaking, mannish ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 20:14, 28 March 2025
- often been featured in art and in legends and folktales. Cats are often used in advertising and as mascots for sports teams and military units. ...12 KB (1,871 words) - 12:24, 30 April 2021
- public, the demons described in the folktales of this period also turned ... began to dissolve with the production of folktales and religious texts that ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
