Definition of folktale
: a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among a people
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West African folktales that continue to be passed from generation to generation through storytelling.
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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), based on a 10th-century Japanese folktale, is a visually flabbergasting work drawn in fluid charcoal strokes and watercolors.
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Typing: People with and without Parkinson's were asked to listen to a folktale and transcribe it by typing.
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That khash culture stems from ancient wedding traditions is one of many theories—and folktales.
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But in spite of gingerbread house-decorating’s cozy holiday connotations, the roots of this tradition may lie in the folktale Hansel and Gretel.
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This June, the government ratified three UNESCO conventions to protect monuments, intangible heritage—including folktales and dances—and cultural diversity.
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Every heirloom comes with a little history lesson or memorable folktale.
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In the folktale, a powerful black steel-driving man named John Henry challenges the steam drill to a race, beats it, and dies.
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Some of the film’s most fantastical elements — the manager of a fast food restaurant bargaining with rioters, police handcuffing people to streetlights — are stories she was told as urban folktales.
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First Known Use of folktale
1850
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: a story made up and handed down by the common people
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