: 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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According to the scholar Maria Tatar, these were folktales shared among adults after hours, while the children were asleep.
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Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
However, her family exposed her to the folktales and histories of India, where her great-grandparents were born.
—Gameli Hamelo, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Under billows of pale grey rock, a neat little wooden sauna hut appears, as if out of a folktale, next to a subterranean lake of luminescent blue.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
Much of it reflected traditional folktales and mythology of the real world; there’s even a detailed creation myth, featuring a clash between gods.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
However, her family exposed her to the folktales and histories of India, where her great-grandparents were born.
—Gameli Hamelo, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Under billows of pale grey rock, a neat little wooden sauna hut appears, as if out of a folktale, next to a subterranean lake of luminescent blue.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
Much of it reflected traditional folktales and mythology of the real world; there’s even a detailed creation myth, featuring a clash between gods.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Folktale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folktale. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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folktale
noun
folk·tale
-ˌtāl 
: a story made up and handed down by the common people
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