| It is a strange grafting of newer Buddhistic teaching with obviously older material that derived from a tradition of moralizing folktales. |
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| The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence. |
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| Overall, the acts and scenes comprising the narrative of folktales of this type are roughly equal in length. |
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| The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures. |
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| Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
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| Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. |
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| These publications launched DeCora into a career illustrating books of Indian folktales for children. |
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| Welsh culture was based on an oral tradition of legends, myths, and folktales passed down from generation to generation. |
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| More recently, there has been interest in comics, humour, and folktales. |
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| A sparse collection of proverbs, folktales and moral codes combined with Buddhist principles dispense a few rules governing social behaviour. |
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| The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths. |
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| Brief descriptive captions would have enhanced the understanding of the life of the people and perhaps added more understanding to the text of the folktales as well. |
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| The roots of my thinking are a tangled maze of myths, folktales, legends, fairy stories. |
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| His sources were the folktales, legends, and pungent gossip of his elders, in addition to historical bits gleaned from the National Library. |
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| Sotho literature is dominated by folktales and praise poems. |
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| Narratives include myths, legends, and folktales found in the written records. |
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| Local folktales were influenced by interaction with other cultures through sea trade and intermarriage. |
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| Quebec is home to a delightful variety of folktales and legends, as Discovering Legends with Jean-Claude Dupont showed us. |
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| If these functions and actions lead to a definite end, making folktales uniform and identifiable, the characters and their attributes change, making the tales multiform. |
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| But the Queen, despite these fanciful folktales is primarily a place full of history and tradition. |
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| A recognized authority on folktales, particularly ghost stories, Creighton published a number of anthologies of stories and songs. |
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| For 600 years, a set of folktales taught Chinese children how to respect their parents. |
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| In folktales, however, even orchard fruits can be of invaluable service to a clever young protagonist. |
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| As such, the original tale has become mixed with elements of folktales and Celtic stories, and so there are a number variations on the tale. |
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| It would be worthless to embark on moral instruction through moral proverbs and folktales, as it is done in African societies, if our character or habits were inborn. |
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| It is somewhat akin to the subversive place and role of our folktales used whenever it was necessary to teach shortcuts that are lessons in audacity and malicious genius. |
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| Mr. Stevens quoted from a Lancet journal article saying the rates of non-paternity have taken on the character of urban folktales, pieces of conventional wisdom that are widely believed but have little basis in fact. |
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| The oral tradition kept African folktales alive. |
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| Here we invite you to explore, through timeless folktales and modern examples, how the principles that guide living systems can also guide how we live and learn. |
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| The aim of publishing in national languages is to provide children in rural areas with the tools to consolidate the written knowledge of their mother tongue, through folktales from their region. |
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| Here you can explore folktales about water from around the world and find activities that will help you create stories-from your own imagination or by working with others. |
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| Why learn about the laws of living systems through folktales? |
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| You can also create new folktales, ones for the modern world. |
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| As stories spread to other cultures or as faiths change, myths can come to be considered folktales. |
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| While myths are not the same as fables, legends, folktales, fairy tales, anecdotes, or fiction, the concepts may overlap. |
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| Some folktales hold that Li survived after his defeats and became a monk for the rest of his life. |
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| The islanders continued to use the language in ballads, folktales, and everyday life. |
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| He published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales from Russia the following year. |
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| In many folktales from around the world, the hero arranges for the burial of a dead man. |
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| The ghost story is ubiquitous across all cultures from oral folktales to works of literature. |
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| Later evidence for elves appears in diverse sources such as medical texts, prayers, ballads, and folktales. |
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| Maltese folktales include various stories about mysterious creatures and supernatural events. |
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| A separate space is created for folktales, which are not considered true by anyone. |
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| The term is often distinguished from didactic literature such as fables, but its relationship with other traditional stories, such as legends and folktales, is more nebulous. |
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| West African folktales that continue to be passed from generation to generation through storytelling. |
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| The computer whiz-kids from Gaelscoil O Doghair in Limerick created a website which tells well-known folktales in Irish, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. |
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| The stories are of varying lengths, folktales told to children in Qatar and other countries of the region for entertainment and inculcation of cultural values and traditions. |
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| While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others, other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and wives. |
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| This story makes use of folktales where black dogs symbolize death. |
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| In the days when structural analysis of literature was fashionable Stith Thompson and Vladimir Propp both produced schemas for examining themes and motifs found in folktales. |
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| Folktales relate the adventures of both animal protagonists and human characters. |
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| Folktales also played a major role in oral literature and their subject matter ranged from love to heroism to supernatural acts. |
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| Folktales became a popular source for the brass casters because they carry moral weight. |
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| It's instructive to read it in tandem with his collection of Italian Folktales, which ironically turn out to be more architectonically constructed than the stories in Castle. |
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| Folktales exist mainly to teach our children not to stray out of reach for their own safety, as confirmed by Deborah O Neill, an English Literature teacher at Al-Sahwa School. |
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