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Folk tale   Listen
noun
folk tale, folktale  n.  A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture.





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"Folk tale" Quotes from Famous Books



... on surer ground by following the process which exalts the dragon of the folk tale into the symbol of evil and primordial chaos. The Babylonian Creation Myth, for instance, can be shown to be a localized and glorified legend in which the hero and his tribe are displaced by the war god and his fellow deities whose welfare ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie


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


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