folktale
IPA: fˈoʊkteɪɫ
noun
- A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
folk tale
IPA: fˈoʊkteɪɫ
noun
- Alternative spelling of folktale [A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.]
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Examples of "folktale" in Sentences
Examples of "folk-tale" in Sentences
- You watch a film adapted from a traditional folk-tale in which the bad-guy demons/evil creatures/villains all have white skin.
- A cast of characters emerged and needed somewhere more concrete to live than the folk-tale landscapes I was used to sketching out.
- Kids learn and get in on the action with an interactive folk-tale performance, art workshop, and reading by Representative Yvette D.
- I'm trying to take into consideration the year it was published... and its "folk-tale" style, but I'm going to go all Lorax and speak for the trees.
- Oddly, the same story appears in a Spanish folk-tale: a shepherd promised to give March a lamb if he would reduce the strength of his winds, and thereby safeguarding the flocks against harm.
- The wolf, being a more conventional - if not conservative - fairy tale character, decided that he could not let Little Red Riding Hood frustrate traditional folk-tale forms in such an arbitrary manner.
- It is significant that, in one of the few explanations that she offered of her interest in the popular forms, she said the following: "The so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale, of our particular niche in history" (Preface to The Best of Planet Stories 2-3).
- If Jack was a literary creation – rather than a genuine figure of folk-tale – whose tale was woven from earlier non-Jack giant-killings and traditions, this naturally raises some intriguing questions about the origins of both these stories of Welsh and Cornish giants and the actual concept of Jack as the hero who finally rids Britain of these creatures.
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