Related Words for folktales

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WordSyllablesCategories
folklore
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Noun, Noun
fairy story
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Phrase, Noun
fairy tale
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Phrase, Noun
stories
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Noun
folk song
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Phrase, Noun
fables
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Noun
tales
/
Noun
mythologies
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Noun
storytellers
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Noun
parables
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Noun
folk music
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Phrase, Noun
fictions
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Noun
folklife
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Noun
nursery rhyme
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Phrase, Noun
storybook
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Noun
tall tale
//
Phrase, Noun
ballads
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Noun
myths
/
Noun
narratives
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Noun
urban legend
/x/x
Name, Name
folkways
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Noun
allegories
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Noun
apocryphal
x/xx
Name
traditions
x/x
Noun
storylines
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Noun
story line
/x/
Phrase, Noun
short story
//x
Phrase, Noun
mythological
xx/xx
Adjective
histories
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Noun
anecdotes
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Noun
townsfolk
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Noun
imaginations
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Noun
life story
//x
Phrase, Noun
proverbs
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Noun
mythos
/x
Noun
picture book
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Phrase, Noun
melodramas
/xxx
Noun
allegorical
xx/xx
Adjective
fictitious
x/x
Adjective
fictionalized
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Adjective
dime novel
//x
Phrase, Noun
apocrypha
x/xx
Noun
poems
/x
Noun
novels
/x
Noun
historicity
x/xxx
Noun
superstitions
xx/x
Noun
fantastical
x/xx
Adjective
metaphors
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Noun
phantasies
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Noun
genealogies
xx/xx
Noun
fairyland
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Noun
folk singer
//x
Phrase, Noun
descriptions
x/x
Noun
ancestors
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Noun
retelling
x/x
Verb, Noun
legends
/x
Noun
riddles
/x
Noun
sagas
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Noun
tellers
/x
Noun
epics
/x
Noun
spirituals
/xxx
Noun
grimm
/
Name
haitian
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Adjective
yiddish
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Adjective
icelandic
x/x
Adjective
rhymes
/
Noun
collecting
x/x
Noun, Verb
yoruba
x/x
Adjective
antilles
x/x
Name
telling
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Noun, Verb
see
/
Adjective
odyssey
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Noun
hmong
/
Adjective
igbo
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Adjective
around
x/
Verb
romances
x/x
Noun
gaelic
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Adjective
songs
/
Noun
mayan
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Adjective
hasidic
x/x
Adjective
collections
x/x
Noun
heroines
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Noun
anthologies
x/xx
Noun
jokes
/
Noun
typology
x/xx
Noun
courtship
/x
Noun
tamil
x/
Adjective
motifs
x/
Noun
feature
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Verb
lore
/
Noun
morphology
x/xx
Noun
from
/
Verb
african
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Adjective
bulgarian
x/xx
Adjective
collectors
x/x
Noun
narrated
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Verb
norwegian
x/x
Adjective
sayings
/x
Noun
adaptations
xx/x
Noun
corpus
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Noun
humorous
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Adjective
abound
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Verb
hindi
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Adjective
michigan
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Name
depict
x/
Verb
armenian
x/xx
Adjective
repertoire
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Noun
hungarian
x/xx
Adjective
finnish
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Adjective
slavic
/x
Adjective
index
/x
Noun
scandinavian
xx/xx
Adjective
norway
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Name
nigerian
x/xx
Adjective
versions
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Noun
genres
/x
Noun
hispanic
x/x
Adjective
sculpture
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Noun
russian
/x
Adjective
italian
x/x
Adjective
irish
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Adjective
philippine
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Adjective
chile
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Name
heroes
/x
Noun
hungary
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Name
celtic
/x
Adjective
publishing
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Verb
snow
/
Noun
variants
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Noun
themes
/
Noun
turkish
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Adjective
catalogue
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Noun
horns
/
Noun
characters
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Noun
mexico
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Name
korean
x/x
Adjective
ireland
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Name
multicultural
xx/xx
Adjective
indian
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Adjective
artists
/x
Adjective
authors
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Adjective
contes
/x
Noun
dialects
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Noun
ethnicity
x/xx
Noun
expatriates
x/xx
Noun
folklorists
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Noun
literati
xx/x
Noun
playwrights
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Noun
surnames
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Noun
vernaculars
x/xx
Noun
writers
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Noun