A Folk Tale (Danish: Et Folkesagn) is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer...

Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century...

dictionary. A folktale or folk tale is a story from the oral literature. Folktale, Folktales, Folk Tale, etc. may also refer to: A Folk Tale, an 1854 ballet...

and varied oral traditions—such as folk epics, folk narratives (including fairy tales and fables), folk drama, proverbs and folksongs—that effectively...

Slavic or Eastern European folk tale, considered a Ukrainian folk tale in some collections, as well as a Russian folk tale in others. In retellings, it...

shape of larger seals, referred to as Haaf-fish. A typical folk-tale is that of a man who steals a female selkie's skin, finds her naked on the sea shore...

needed] The folk and tribal arts of India speak volumes about the country's rich heritage. Art forms in India have been exquisite and explicit. Folk art forms...

Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. The book was published in 1883. The illustrations...

variations of this Ukrainian folk tale. In the general story, a person loses their mitten in a forest in the snow during a cold winter. One by one, various...

folk tale Otesánek (and the 2000 movie with the same name) follows a similar plot. Joseph Jacobs published "Johnny-Cake" in his English Fairy Tales (1890)...

myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives...

is a Hungarian folk tale published by László Arany [hu] in Eredeti Népmesék (1862). Its main character is a youth named Fehérlófia, a "Hungarian folk hero"...

Hungarian Folk Tales (Hungarian: Magyar népmesék) is a Hungarian animated series and one of the first and biggest successes of Pannonia Film Studio, based...

ZSU-23-4 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. This vehicle has sparked a folk tale in Romania according to which Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu used...

Vagina dentata (Latin for 'toothed vagina') is a folk tale tradition in which a woman's vagina is said to contain teeth, with the associated implication...

(/əˈlædɪn/ ə-LAD-in; Arabic: علاء الدين, romanized: ʻAlāʼu d-Dīn/ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: [ʕalaːʔ adˈdiːn], ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is...

retelling of the Ukrainian fairy tale, "The Mitten", has become a bestselling classic. The development of Ukrainian folk tales has also been subject to academic...

deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status...

Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott. p. 108. Brian Ray's essay claims that "W. B. Yeats mentions.. the dullahan.. brandishing a whip...

similes Epic poetry Fable Fairy tale Folk belief Folk etymologies Folk metaphors Folk poetry Folk music Folksongs Folk speech Folktales of oral tradition...

(Portuguese: Galo de Barcelos) is a common symbol of Portugal. The folk tale of the rooster of Barcelos, tells the story of a dead rooster's miraculous intervention...

used to transmit knowledge and history. Ukrainian folk literature is vast. Many Ukrainian fairy tales feature forests and grassy plains, with people working...

Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken...

on the Western Regions, but embellishes it with fantasy elements from folk tales and the author's invention. In the story, the Buddha tasks the monk, called...

monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single identifiable author". They differ from oral folktakes...

providing also folk songs, riddles and tales for Demetrio Camarda's collection. Mitko's own collection—including 505 folk songs, and 39 tales and popular...

others) fables, fairy-tales, pseudo-historical romances, folk-poetry, folk songs, proverbs and riddles. The most famous Sindhi folk tales are known as the...

Belgian tale "Karl Katz" is similar to both the German folk tale "Peter Klaus" and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle". Charles Deulin was a French writer...

Fables and Folk Stories by Horace E. Scudder. Problems playing this file? See media help. Little Red Riding Hood is a European fairy tale about a young girl...

The King of the Cats (or The King o' the Cats) is a folk tale from the British Isles. The earliest known example is found in Beware the Cat, written by...