folktale

How To Use folktale In A Sentence

• The frontier has been an active source for American folktales dealing with characters such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Mike Fink.
• As we speak we are still in the midst of a kind of folktale maelstrom, so you’ll forgive me if my initial sideways glance at “Letters from Rapunzel,” appeared to produce just more of the same. Review of the Day: Letters from Rapunzel
• It's a strange compound of documentary, mystery and folktale, an unfamiliar voice from the centre of a world of secrets. Times, Sunday Times
• More recently, there has been interest in comics, humour, and folktales.
• More recently, there has been interest in comics, humour, and folktales.
• Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech.
• UPDATE: Oscar Penaranda also notes that "prau" a prau can be a womb as how his mother carried him during WWII as they fled Manila to return to their home in the Island of Leyte, as well as that "prau" is the provenance, according to folktale, of Princess Urduha's historical and original name. Archive 2007-02-01
• These publications launched DeCora into a career illustrating books of Indian folktales for children.
• Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses.
• Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old countrymost of them gruesome; children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witchesbut never spoke about the war in my hearing. Excerpt: City of Thieves by David Benioff