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Folk tale   /foʊk teɪl/   Listen
Folk tale

noun
1.
A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.  Synonym: folktale.






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"Folk tale" Quotes from Famous Books



... retold them in a new language. To do them justice in this new language I have found it necessary to present them with a new selection of detail and with an occasional shifting of emphasis. I do not mean by this that I have invented detail in any unwarranted fashion. I haven't had to for any folk tale, however bald, contains all sorts of things by implication. The true story teller, it seems to me, is he who is able to grasp these implications and turn them to his ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore

... adopted some of the familiar figures of old story. Emily's guardian, Montoni, in The Mysteries of Udolpho, like the unscrupulous uncle in Godwin's Cloudesley, may well have been descended from the wicked uncle of the folk tale. The cruel stepmother is disguised as a haughty, scheming marchioness in The Sicilian Romance. The ogre drops his club, assumes a veneer of polite refinement and relies on the more gentlemanlike method of the dagger and stiletto for gaining his ends. The banditti ...
— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead



Words linked to "Folk tale" :   narrative, tale, folklore, narration, Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Nights' Entertainment, story, flying carpet



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