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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 ...
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  • this archive contains over 23,000 folktales, classified according to ... * bin Gorion, Micha J. Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales ...
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  • Lamia receives a section in Georgios Megas and Helen Colaclides, Folktales of Greece (Folktales of the World) (University of Chicago Press, 1970). ...
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  • The Grimms were not the first to publish collections of folktales ... in the early 1800s. Brentano collected folktales in much the same way as ...
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  • * folktales/fairytales–stories which lack any definite historical ... thinks the distinction between myths and folktales may be useful, ...
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  • ==Folktales== Joan, there are also numerous medieval folktales. Once such story describes ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • under the title Totkv Mocvse/New Fire:Creek Folktales. Among Swanton's most famous works on the Haida are his Contributions to the Ethnology ...
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  • and tranquility, is a recurring motif in many folktales and legends of ancient India. [[File:Mahatmas Visitor Room.JPG|thumb|400px|Mahatma Gandhi ...
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  • their communities. Collections of Indian folktales have circulated in written ... ==Folktales== [[Image:Bhutanese painted thanka of the Jataka Tales ...
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  • To select works for his analysis, Propp used all Russian folktales ... to their literary forms, no such pure folktales exist–nor do pure literary ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • type of more ethereal creature. Many folktales are told of fairies, and ... enchantress or wise woman. Also, not all folktales that feature fairies are ...
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  • times throughout the vast corpus of Chinese folktales and literature. In the most popular account, He Xiangu is characterized as a poor peasant ...
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  • *Radin, Paul. 1987. African Folktales (New Ed. edition). Schocken. ISBN 0805207325 *Radin, Paul. 1990. (original work from 1923). The Winnebago ...
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  • * Leeming, David Adams, and Jake Page. 1999. Myths, legends, and folktales of America: an anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN ...
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  • Italo Calvino included in his Italian Folktales a similar tale of a princess imprisoned in a tower, "The Canary Prince," though the ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • public, the demons described in the folktales of this period also turned ... began to dissolve with the production of folktales and religious texts that ...
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  • mostly based upon Minangkabau legends and folktales. Men originally played ... Minangkabau traditional folktales (kaba) are narratives which present ...
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