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Borrow, Renew, RequestHow to borrow materials, request pdf scans, and interlibrary loans.Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Tatar, The Annotated African American Folktales (2017). Courlander, A Treasury of African Folklore (1975), A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore (1976), and The Tiger's Whisker and Other Tales from Asia and the Pacific (1995) A.
Binner, American Folktales (1966) and International Folktales (1967) R. See also mythology monsters and imaginary beasts in folklore elf fairy goblin gremlin troll. There is also a rich tradition of African-American folktales. Myths, which are more difficult to define satisfactorily, treat happenings of a long-ago time they generally concern the adventures of gods, giants, heroes, nymphs, satyrs, and villains, as well as etiological themes. Such tales are classified according to three subdivisions: the etiological tale, or tale concerning origins (e.g., Great Hare and Coyote among Native Americans) the fable pointing to a moral (Aesop's fables) and the beast epic (e.g., Reynard the Fox see bestiary). Animal tales abound in every culture most of them are clearly anthropomorphic, the animals assuming human personalities. Popular examples recount the supernatural adventures and mishaps of youngest daughters, transformed princes, mermaids, and wood fairies and elves (e.g., Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel). Fairy tales are entirely fictional and often begin with such formulas as Once upon a time … and In a certain country there lived … . These stories are related as fact and concern a specific time and place. Legends and traditions are narratives of an explanatory nature concerning creation and tribal beginnings, supernatural beings, and quasi-historical figures (e.g., King Arthur, Lady Godiva). Folklorists make distinctions among the categories of folktales. Major 20th-century scholars in the field include Franz Boas, Richard Chase, Marie Campbell, and Stith Thompson. Addy in England, Paul Sébillot in France, and Y.
Among the foremost folklorists of the 19th cent. Even the forms folktales take are demonstrably similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative techniques have been successful in showing these relationships. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to pre-industrial, ancient, and more modern and developed societies alike. Folktale, general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative.