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| | MSN Encarta - Folktales |
 | | Such stories are considered true by both the narrator and the audience and tell of the creation and regulation of the world—tasks usually performed by a deity (god or goddess) who exists in chaos, in a void, or in some other world. | | | When strictly defined, myths are folktales that are religious and explain the universe and its inhabitants. | | | Legends are folk history, and even when dealing with religious subject matter they differ from myth in that they tell about what has happened in the world after the period of its creation is over. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556135
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| | Odin - Norwegian folktales and legends |
| | Despite having old roots, folktales were not written down in Norway until the nineteenth century, owning to the fact that folktales were held in low esteem among the educated classes. | | | Unlike the folktales, which take place in a make-believe world, legends seem plausible and tell about events which could have taken place. | | | The most common are: "Once upon a time", "Once there was a king and a queen", or "There was once a time when all things could speak". |
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http://www.odin.dep.no/odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990474/index-dok000-b-n-a.html
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| | Turkish and Cypriot Folktales |
| | Folktales helped people learn and understand the customs and culture of their community. | | | In many cultures people told folktales for reasons ranging from passing on news to teaching lessons to children. | | | In this way folktales also tell a great deal about the people who invent them. |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webthepoetgl.html
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| | 83.06.07: Black Onyx: Black Folktales |
| | Whenever the need arises there is a folktale to teach moral lessons, explain the existence and the endurance of men and women, and to fulfill a need for answers to questions which are unanswerable. | | | Folktales can provide them with a means of observing how people who are oppressed survive. | | | Collection of folktales from periodicals of the nineteenth century. |
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http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/6/83.06.07.x.html
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| | Distinctions of Arabic Folktales - Al Jadid |
| | It is interesting to note that although folktales might include supernatural and magical elements, they are usually based on real life events that stem from the Arabic culture. | | | A large number of Arabic legends, folktales, and myths reflect the culture's history, social customs, morals, values, and religious beliefs. | | | In addition, many Arabic folktales lack of the element of logic. |
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http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/000/070/079/al-jadid/aljadid-magic.html
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| | Folktales: What are they? Types of tales |
| | Folktales, according to Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown's Essentials of Children's Literature are "stories that grow out of the lives and imaginations of the people, or folk." They are a form of traditional literature which began as an attempt to explain and understand the natural and spiritual world. | | | Once developed, they spread from country to country through people, for example "sailors and soldiers, women stolen from their tribes, slaves and captives of war, traders, minstrels and bands, monks and scholars, and young men on the grand tour," as stated by Sutherland and Arbuthnot in Children and Books. | | | Cox, M. An Introduction to Folklore Singing Tree Press, Detroit. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/tradcarney.htm
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| | 93.02.10: Folktales of Zora Neale Hurston |
| | The cat still has those nine lives in his belly and that is why you have to kill him nine times before he’ll stay dead. | | | Whenever there’s a storm at sea, it’s the wind and the water fighting over their children. | | | In the beginning of time, God made people, but he did not make them completely. |
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http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.10.x.html
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| | Story Arts Cultural Studies |
| | Social studies exploration of the context in which a tale might be told, the historical times, environment, food, housing, religion and so forth, can add to the joy of telling and to the respect a teller brings to the sharing of the story. | | | Since folktales deal with universal life experience, they can offer enlightening insights into traditions and values. | | | Folktales are windows into other cultures as well as mirrors of ourselves. |
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http://www.storyarts.org/classroom/retelling/culturalstudies.html
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| | Active Heroines |
| | Fox from the tiger by using her wits, and brings her conceited husband down a peg at the same time. | | | A simple shepherd must pass three tests in order to marry the Khan’s beautiful daughter. | | | Savitri and the Lord of the Dead, in The Buried Moon and Other Stories by Molly Bang. |
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http://www.sisterschoice.com/heroines.html
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| | Folktales Main Page |
| | Lots of Fun Folktales from Around the World | | | The village priest let him live in the temple as long as he liked. | | | And so they gave her comfort and happiness, all the rest of her days. |
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http://sophia.smith.edu/~abloomga/Breorweb/FolktalesMain.html
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| | Folktales serve to explain the world around us: they provide a "cosmology" that explains the order of things. | | | What can folktales tell us about a society? | | | While the folktales we discuss today tell us about the roles that are ssignied to women and family in a cultuiral environment, they also serve to institutionalize or "solidify" these roles. |
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http://www2.hmc.edu/~delaet/LIT190.HTM
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| | culture.htm(FCCS) |
| | These folktales have survived thousands of years throughout Chinese history mainly through the oral tradition. | | | And often in the story, there is a blur between history and mythology. | | | The common characters in these folktales could be: a magistrate, a king, a patriot, a wise man, a foolish man, a soldier, a young scholar, a maiden, a good son, or a hardworking servant. |
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http://www.interlog.com/~fccs/culture.htm
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| | African-American Folktales |
| | A comparison between Zora Neale Hurston's fiction and the folktales she published might illuminate her strategies in folktale editing as well as fiction. | | | Answering these questions is not easy; I've tried to address them in the material below. | | | Folktales might be said to have three audiences, all of them in some sense "original": The people who hear and help create the oral tales; folklorists who persuade story-tellers to perform their tales for publication; and readers of the published collections. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/african.html
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| | Appalachian Folktales in Children's Literature and Collections |
| | The text, in the voice of a child from Madison County, NC, is longer than a picture book or traditional alphabet book, but it includes many pencil drawings and references to folktales and legends, along with many other Appalachian traditions, historical references, and natural features. | | | Note: Many of the tales listed in this section are discussed in the essay "Strong Women in Appalachian Folktales" by Tina L. Hanlon. | | | Many of the picture books in these folktale bibliographies are not "true picture books," with fully interdependent text and art, but illustrated stories from folklore. |
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http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/bibs/Folkbib.htm
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| | Explain that folktales originated from places all over the world. | | | Generally, they were told to relate a message or moral, or to explain things in nature. | | | While presenting the PowerPoint, explain that folktales originated as oral story telling and have been passed down from generation to generation. |
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http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/faculty/dazon/activities.html
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| | A bibliography of Feminist Folktales |
| | Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls. | | | Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. | | | Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Share. |
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http://thslone.tripod.com/Feminist-folktales.html
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| | Folktales |
| | People often made up these stories to explain what they could not understand in the world around them. | | | Read some folktales that explain the world around us: | | | Folktales are stories passed on from one person to another by word of mouth. |
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http://www.longlongtimeago.com/llta_folktales.html
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| | 93.02.12: Puerto Rican Folktales |
| | The folktales of Puerto Rico reflect the culture of the people who have lived or influenced the lifestyle of those people living there, the Tainos, the Spaniards, and the Africans. | | | This may be due to lack of time to tell stories, interest in, or knowledge of these stories on behalf of their parents or relatives. | | | Each new member is to tell a story from his original group. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html
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| | Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 |
| | Legends from Germany and Switzerland about wayward children whose hands, following their death and burial, refuse to stay buried. | | | Folktales of type 1066, in which boys, playing that they are executioners, end up killing one of their comrades. | | | Folktales of types 312 and 312A about women whose brothers rescue them from their ruthless husbands or abductors. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/weblink_861504702/Folklore_and_Mythology_Electronic_Texts.html
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| | , Indian Folktales, Kids Folktale for Children, Hindi American Asian Folktales from Africa, Russia, Estonian, Ukranian, ... |
| | Latvian Folktales: The youngest brother came into the garden, he looked here and he looked there but he saw neither his brothers nor the three-crowned lime-tree... | | | Latvian Folktales: They came to the farmer's house, and the farmer led the lord to the storeroom where he had two strong, brawny youths lying in wait for him... | | | Latvian Folktales: This was a strange bear, indeed-to be living in a huge palace all by himself and to be doing everything just like a man... |
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http://www.4to40.com/folktales?article=folktales_index&counter=190
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| | Japanese Folktales National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies |
| | Introduce "The Dancing Kettle." "In this story we find a kind Buddhist priest living in a Buddhist temple, who finds himself with a magic dancing teakettle. | | | Some of these stories entertain; some tell what the people thought was important to pass on to their children; and others tell something about the culture of the people as it was long ago. | | | To recognize that some themes of folktales are universal. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/LP/LS25.html
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| | Folktales, Folklore |
| | But folktales are important for everyone from all countries of the world. | | | For thousands of years people have been telling tales to teach lessons to their children. | | | Folktales can help us to understand a lot about other people and their cultures. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/childrens_writing/8385
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| | Folktales for you to make into your own. |
| | Folktales from ESL classes -- I found myself teaching storytelling to a bunch of people who didn't speak English very well. | | | Folktales for you to make into your own. | | | Longest Story in the Universe -- Two version of the same old chestnut, one from the USA, one from China, both part of the ongoing conversation at Storytell. |
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http://www.folktale.net/stories.html
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| | ARTSEDGE: Russian Folktales |
| | Engage students in a discussion about what folktales teach us about the culture from which they originated. | | | Folktales are available online at the Russian Folktales site or in the books listed in the Sources section. | | | Tell students that for many centuries, literature was only allowed to be written in the Russian language within the Russian Orthodox Church; this is why the folktales were first published in England. |
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http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2320
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| | LIS 6585--Materials for Children: Lecture Outline 6 |
| | There is often contrast in characters: a good child vs. a wicked stepmother, a young boy vs. a wicked ogre. | | | Some people have believed that folktales are remnants of nature myths; stories which explain nature through a story which was once accepted as true. | | | Belief that all folktales were descended from the myths of the Indo-Europeans or Aryans. |
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http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/tradlit.html
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| | Bura Folktales |
| | Folktale 16: The Squirrel and the Hyena Were Neighbours | | | Folktale 15: Two Men Go on a Journey | | | Folktale 14: The Servant Who Shot a Bush Goat |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/hamza/BuraFolktales.htm
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| | Lesson 7 - Reading and Writing Pourquoi Folktales: Part 2 |
| | Children compare scientific explanations of the mysteries of nature with explanations given in pourquoi folktales. | | | Children are introduced to a collection of short pourquoi folktales that includes the origin of the story, tips for telling the story, and a scientific explanation to answer the question it poses. | | | Have them read and discuss their pourquoi folktale using the class chart, locate its origin, and label it on the world map. |
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http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-10710_13476_13477-63836--,00.html
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| | Academic Scholars Institute: Folktales on the web |
| | Homepage of Korean folktales: Also includes information on traditional Korean beliefs. | | | Popular Cambodian folktales: Four tales collected by the Southeast Asia Outreach Program at Cornell University. | | | Puerto Rican folktales: Designed as a curriculum unit by a member of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. |
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http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/asi_2002/folktales.html
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| | English Language Arts - A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Level (2002) |
| | Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls. | | | Folktales are considered traditional literature, along with fables, myths, and legends. | | | Opportunities to create modern versions of folktales exercise students' imaginations and increase their knowledge of story structures. |
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http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/gr3_samp
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales |
| | The notes also explain various aspects of the culture that might be unclear through only reading the folktales. | | | Sexton presents a helpful introduction to the folktales, the majority of which were written by a local Mayan or told to him by the indigenous people in the area. | | | The notes at the end of the book are a great addition to increasing understanding of the tale and of the person who told it. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560987707?v=glance
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| | African Folktales |
| | The iPhoto book is a wonderful follow-up to the rest of the lesson. | | | Most middle school students have heard many different folktales, but have they ever been given the opportunity to not only write their own, but to perform them as well? | | | A rubric can be used to assess the students' work on the folktale, the performance of the folktale, and the iPhoto photo book. |
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http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000505
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| | A Change of Storyteller: Folktales in Children and Books, from Arbuthnot to Sutherland. | | | Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale. | | | Seattle, Washington artist and teacher Sultan Mohamed's "The Story of Coffee" retells a folktale about the origins of coffee in his native Ethiopia. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE018824.html
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| | , Indian Folktales, Kids Folktale for Children, Hindi American Asian Folktales from Africa, Russia, Estonian, Ukranian, ... |
| | But the bee saw him, flew up to him quickly and stung his hand... | | | Ukrainian Folktales: Fox had only just crept into the henhouse and gone after the chickens when the man seized him by the tail and gave him such a beating that it left him more dead than alive... | | | Ukrainian Folktales: Little Wolf ran away across the field, but so hungry was he that his legs carried him of themselves to the village... |
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http://www.4to40.com/folktales/default.asp?article=folktales_index&counter=150
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| | A definition of folktales which has been widely cited by scholars is from Berkeley anthropologist William Bascom. | | | But people don't mind hearing the lesson because folktales provide enjoyment and a chance to dream about magical things. | | | Many people know folktales as "fairy tales." There has been a lot of confusion brought about by the term "fairy tales." To begin with, a big problem with the use of the label fairy tales is that many folktales do not have fairies in them. |
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http://www.pinoystuff.com/folklore/folktales/folktales.htm
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| | Kingston upon Hull - Libraries : Welcome |
| | Initially, the folktales will be exhibited as laminated, multilingual 'chained books'. | | | This process will then culminate in a publication of the folktales. | | | The aim is to work with a diverse range of people in hull, particularly encouraging the involvement of hull's ethnic minority, asylum seeker and refugee communities, to collect folktales that reflect cultural diversity in hull. |
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http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/libraries/local_global_folktales.php
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| | Folktales first began as stories that were told before people learned to read and write. | | | Ask the students if they can explain the moral of each of the folktales they came up with. | | | Tell the students that folktales often teach a lesson or have a moral. |
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http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/tif/long/folktales.html
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| | English Folktales |
| | There are many folktales relating to places in England, here is a small selection, which we will be expanding as time goes by. | | | Some of these folktales appear in the legends section as the boundries between legends and folktales are blurred. |
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http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/engfolktales.html
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| | Hoppa - Myths and Folktales in Western Europe |
| | Austria, Photographers, Books, Myths and Folktales, Spirituality...as though the angels would live on Earth | | | France, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Greece, Scotland, Wales, Bretagne, the Nordic Countries, Myths and Folktales, Mythology A collection of myths and legend from Classical Greece and Rome, Norse and Celtic mythology, as well as Arthurian legend. | | | Faroe Islands, the Nordic Countries, Stamps, Myths and Folktales, Illustration, Mythology, Inuit, Sami, Shamanism Information database for the "history of civilizations" stamp-issues of the Faroese Philatelic Office. |
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http://www.hoppa.com/eu/Myths_And_Folktales
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| | Writing Animal Folktales |
| | Introductory lesson created for day 107 of the 180 day sequence. | | | Drafting lesson created for day 109 of the 180 day sequence. | | | The students will use their prewriting ideas (see semantic/story maps in prewriting lesson) to begin drafting animal folktales. |
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http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/displayunit.asp?UnitID=501
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| | Folktales |
| | To read some examples of Ananse Folktales, click here... | | | At the end of such a tale, he is shamed. |
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http://www.lehigh.edu/~tqr0/ghanaweb/folktales.html
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| | Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales |
| | Folktales are often stories of animals that act like humans, and that live in a world of wonder and magic. | | | Folktales are often passed down and retold from generation to generation. | | | Most of these stories convey a message or moral to the reader, or explain something in a creative way. |
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folktale_allfolktale.htm
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| | Folktales from China |
| | Once upon a time there lived in the mountains a woman and her daughter. | | | When the family examined the tree and saw that it was indeed as Bigmouth had described, they had no choice but to set him free. | | | From that day on, the young couple once again went up to the mountain to cut firewood and led their old, hardworking life. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/china.html
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| | Alamat, A Philippine Folktales, Myths and Legends Page |
| | No matter how far apart we live, we are inextricably linked. | | | This is a personal, hobby site that lists stories classified into: Gods and Goddesses, Myths of Origin, Fairy Tales, Legendary Heroes, Parables, Folktales, and Urban Legends. | | | He's the creator and illustrator of "Mythology Class," a comic book which rekindled my interest in Philippine myths and legends. |
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http://folktales.webmanila.com/folktales/links
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| | MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND FOLKTALES |
| | Home Page of Korean Folktales Korean beliefs, cultural traits, and attitudes are included |
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http://www.keyknox.com/library/New_Folder/MYTHS.html
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| | Encyclopedia Mythica: Folktales |
| | Many attempts have been made to define, classify, and describe the folktale. | | | This section was last updated on March 28, 2004. | | | None of these attempts did a completely satisfactory job; the folktale is just too inclusive for such division. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/areas/folklore/folktales
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| | Folktales |
| | There is a wonderful list of folktale books and materials to be found at -- | | | Anne Marie Kraus has two excellent books with more lesson ideas than you will ever get around to implementing. | | | I will be updating this list as I discover new sites and links to learn about myths, legends and folktales. |
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http://www.rsansouci.com/pages/folktales.htm
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| | Italian Folktales - definition of Italian Folktales in Encyclopedia |
| | Italian Folktales - definition of Italian Folktales in Encyclopedia | | | Italian Folktales (Fiabe Italiane) is a collection of 200 Italian folktales published in 1956 by Italo Calvino. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Italian_Folktales
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