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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 ...

this archive contains over 23,000 folktales, classified according to ... * bin Gorion, Micha J. Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales ...

Lamia receives a section in Georgios Megas and Helen Colaclides, Folktales of Greece (Folktales of the World) (University of Chicago Press, 1970). ...

The Grimms were not the first to publish collections of folktales ... in the early 1800s. Brentano collected folktales in much the same way as ...

* folktales/fairytales–stories which lack any definite historical ... thinks the distinction between myths and folktales may be useful, ...

==Folktales== Joan, there are also numerous medieval folktales. Once such story describes ...

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 ...

under the title Totkv Mocvse/New Fire:Creek Folktales. Among Swanton's most famous works on the Haida are his Contributions to the Ethnology ...

and tranquility, is a recurring motif in many folktales and legends of ancient India. [[File:Mahatmas Visitor Room.JPG|thumb|400px|Mahatma Gandhi ...

their communities. Collections of Indian folktales have circulated in written ... ==Folktales== [[Image:Bhutanese painted thanka of the Jataka Tales ...

To select works for his analysis, Propp used all Russian folktales ... to their literary forms, no such pure folktales exist–nor do pure literary ...

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 ...

type of more ethereal creature. Many folktales are told of fairies, and ... enchantress or wise woman. Also, not all folktales that feature fairies are ...

times throughout the vast corpus of Chinese folktales and literature. In the most popular account, He Xiangu is characterized as a poor peasant ...

*Radin, Paul. 1987. African Folktales (New Ed. edition). Schocken. ISBN 0805207325 *Radin, Paul. 1990. (original work from 1923). The Winnebago ...

* Leeming, David Adams, and Jake Page. 1999. Myths, legends, and folktales of America: an anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN ...

Italo Calvino included in his Italian Folktales a similar tale of a princess imprisoned in a tower, "The Canary Prince," though the ...

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. ...

public, the demons described in the folktales of this period also turned ... began to dissolve with the production of folktales and religious texts that ...

mostly based upon Minangkabau legends and folktales. Men originally played ... Minangkabau traditional folktales (kaba) are narratives which present ...

* Beck, Brenda E. F., et al. Folktales of India (Folktales of the World). University Of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0226040837. * Benton, Catherine ...

Anthony L. Manna, and Melpomeni Kanatsouli, Folktales from Greece: A Treasury of Delights (ISBN 1-56308-908-4). The Kallikantzaroi are creatures ...

recorded in the Samguk Yusa (a collection of folktales, legends, and biographies from early Korean history), in the year 42 C.E., six eggs descended from ...

, the great Indian courtesan, appeared in many folktales, as well as in Buddhist literature. Ambapali became a disciple of Buddha. ...

* Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Jorgen Moe. 1982. Norwegian Folktales. Pantheon. ISBN 0394710541 * Bø, Olav. 1987. Trollmakter og godvette. ...

exist, and that the fables attributed to him are folktales of unknown origins, Aesop was indeed mentioned in several other Ancient Greek works—Aristophanes ...

films based on Ukrainian and Moldovan folktales, such as Andriesh, Ukrainian Rhapsody, and Flower on the Stone. He learned and became fluent ...

m/units/1993/2/93.02.10.x.html#a Folktales of Zora Neale Hurston] * [http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/zora_hurston/ Zora Neale Hurston ...

Wofford, a welder by trade, told her numerous folktales of the Black community (a method of storytelling that would later work its way into Morrison ...

html "Beauty and the Beast: folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 425C] * [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cinder/BB1.htm Cinderella Bibliography ...

htm Traditional customs and folktales for September]. Conkers and Ghosts. Retrieved April 10, 2008. * Food Standards Agency (FSA). n.d. [http://www ...

in a large number of traditional folktales and legends from Ireland, Newfoundland, Italy, and the United Kingdom, where he often attempts to ...

County Sligo, entertained them with stories and folktales from her native county. In October 1881, Yeats resumed his education at the Erasmus ...

their goods, and scuttled their boats. The folktales of Mike Fink recall the keelboats used for commerce in the early days of European settlement. ...

The term "Grateful Dead" also appears in folktales of a variety of cultures. ===A new type of sound=== [[Image:Grateful-dead.jpg|thumb ...

* Schoolcraft, Henry R. Algic Researches: North American Indians Folktales and Legends. Mineola, NY: Dover reprint. 1998 (original 1839). ISBN ...

*The Annotated African American Folktales. With Maria Tatar. (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017). *The Penguin Portable Nineteenth Century African American ...

Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends ...

The poem as it is now known is a retelling of folktales from the pagan, Anglo-Saxon Oral tradition directed at a Christian audience. It is often ...

Hằng Nga), there are two other popular folktales associated with the festival Vietnam. The first describes the legend of Cuội, whose wife ...

The chicken (Gallus gallus) is one of humankind's most common and wide-spread domestic animals. The chicken is believed to be descended ...

The principal episodes of Lazarillo are based on Arabic folktales that were well known to the Moorish inhabitants of Spain. The Arabic influence ...

specific type of more ethereal creature. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry ...

of magic by other titles have appeared in myths, folktales, and literature throughout recorded history, as well as modern fantasy and role-playing games ...

of the local language, but of recording myths, folktales, beliefs about social relationships and institutions, and even recipes for local cuisine (see ...

Many early historians were influenced by supernatural folktales in their explanations. Some legends held that Merlin the wizard had a giant build ...

November 29, 1864. Today Native place-names, folktales, music, and dance are a part of the Colorado culture, as are Native artwork and jewelry. ...

Crackle Mountain," one of the few Japanese folktales in which a tanuki (raccoon-dog) is the villain, and confronts a heroic rabbit. ...

tales about Faust, usually old, known folktales with the superimposition of Faust's name. In accord with the theological reputation and ...

of Fate"). Hagiographies and folktales abound of people who seemingly die in one province, but are seen alive in another. Mortals who choose ...

account of the earliest Greek myths, dealing with folktales, etiological tales, creation accounts, and descriptions of the origin of the gods, Titans ...

and Talmud; it may have been a collection of folktales, a refutation of Christian, Karaite, or other separatist movements; its content seems so offensive ...

powerful of the 15 Mahajanapadas. Several Jatakas (folktales about the previous incarnations of Buddha) bear witness to the superiority of its capital ...

Gritts Kilpatrick. 1995. Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806127228 * Mankiller, Wilma ...

killed by the Tanguts. There are persistent folktales that a Tangut princess, to avenge her people and prevent her rape, castrated him with a knife ...

Levstik published his version of oral Slovene folktales, and in 1866 Josip Juri published the first long novel in Slovene, entitled The Tenth Brother ...

One example of this is the series of folktales surrounding the figure ... The tradition of folklore—folktales, jokes, legends, and the like—in ...

Globe, May 22, 2005. retrieved 18 January 2007 Folktales involving reverence for Pashtun mothers and matriarchs abound, passed down from parent to ...

hadith, or oral traditions, there are many folktales praising Muhammad and recounting miraculous stories of his birth, upbringing and life. ...

recorded in the Samguk Yusa (a collection of folktales, legends, and biographies from early Korean history), in the year 42 C.E., six eggs descended from ...

by the oral tradition. And like the folktales they follow, the stories often have morals emphasizing the importance of cultural traditions.Ode ...