folktaleThefolktalehas assumed a life of its own, as various commentators have focused too narrowly on their own subdisciplinary concerns.From theCambridge English CorpusIt is for this reason also that such narratives need to be seen as histories and not simply as folktales.From theCambridge English CorpusAre the writers of "political statements" the same as the tellers of these "folktales"?From theCambridge English CorpusThe followingfolktaleis a typical rendition of the events.From theCambridge English CorpusThey are also romanticized in folktales as fierce, lawless, and sometimes heroic.From theCambridge English CorpusBy then, methods of collecting and documenting folktales had become more exacting.From theCambridge English CorpusCommonly known folktales were used to control the content of the elicited narratives.From theCambridge English CorpusEven when exactly the samefolktaleis recounted, a situation that could be expected to lead to ritualization, variability persists.From theCambridge English CorpusIn addition, 65 university students read these folktales and rated them on a number of characteristics, including memorability and ease of transmission.From theCambridge English CorpusThey selected approximately 121 titles from the following categories: informational books, folktales, realistic fiction, nonfiction, traditional literature, and fantasy.From theCambridge English CorpusHis interests include poetry, myths, legend, andfolktale.From theCambridge English CorpusThe chapter also provides an intriguing investigation of the commune, family household, rites of passage, magic, religion, schools, literacy, and folktales.From theCambridge English CorpusAre "folktales" a distinct register, on a par with "private conversation"?From theCambridge English CorpusUsing this range (2 - 3) to define a set of minimally counterintuitive folktales, it is revealed that 76.5% of minimally counterintuitive tales are in the culturally successful sample.From theCambridge English CorpusThe stories in this book also serve as a welcome corrective to the many sanitized and infantilized collections of ' folktales ' that often pass for oral literature.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/folktale##
