| The folktale of a wicked man who helps a woman spin thread or straw into skeins of gold is well-known with variations around the world. |
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| He has even compared the defeat to Brer Fox, in the old folktale of the American South. |
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| A folktale tells the story of a lily of the valley, a fragrant spring flower. |
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| After several interventions of other parents, 12-year old Mamadou tells a folktale and a group of school children sing a song. |
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| This new adaptation of a French-Canadian folktale told by Roch Carrier is mesmerizing. |
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| Activity Description: The workshop will draw on folktale narrative motifs to allow students to create their own short play in one hour. |
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| More than the mere rendition in song and dance of an old african folktale, Bene Nkuba is a metaphore of the immigrant's life. |
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| The Baba Darya folktale might have been concocted to keep ship workers, especially apprentice sailors, alert. |
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| This quality also links his story with the primitive folktale theme of a great fool or simple. |
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| A large part of this folktale, which is also a myth, is difficult to grasp for a foreigner because of its archaic language. |
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| The Snow Show: East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon is adapted from a Norwegian folktale by Amiel Gladstone. |
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| Janie Jaehyun Park remembers her grandmother telling this ancient Korean folktale to her countless times as a child. |
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| Sometimes they were combined with folktale elements, as was the case with the very old saga of Fergus mac Léti, which was rewritten, perhaps in the 14th century, to include a story of a people of tiny stature the leprechauns. |
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| Yet their very artistry serves as an impediment to interpretation, since the Greeks embellished the myths with folktale and fiction told for its own sake. |
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| Just as Des Knaben Wunderhorn became a source of poetry, so the epochal folktale collection of the brothers Grimm helped to develop a school of prose fairy-tale writers. |
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| Peter Hinton directed a beautiful new translation of the Swedish folktale, The Changeling, for young audiences, as well as a poetic interpretation of Sam Shepard's Buried Child for both the NAC and Montreal's Segal Theatre. |
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| Let's settle an old-misnomer, perhaps a folktale about braille! |
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| The students were divided into groups, each student presenting his or her favorite folktale to the group. |
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| A folktale typically is a story of survival, while a fairy tale is a story of enchantment. |
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| Based on a 2,000-year-old Chinese folktale, Mulan tells of a young woman who chooses to pass as a man and go to war rather than allow her ailing father to be drafted. |
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| Bren read half the folktale on one day and the other half the next day. |
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| Likewise, a folktale from India says that a pelican killed her young by rough treatment but was then so contrite that she resurrected them with her own blood. |
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