0 a traditional story that people of a particular region or group repeat among themselves
The folktale has assumed a life of its own, as various commentators have focused too narrowly on their own subdisciplinary concerns.
It is for this reason also that such narratives need to be seen as histories and not simply as folktales.
Are the writers of "political statements" the same as the tellers of these "folktales"?
The following folktale is a typical rendition of the events.
Most of the longer contes are canonical folktales, as in (1); the shorter ones resemble jokes with a more consistent structure, as in (2).
They are also romanticized in folktales as fierce, lawless, and sometimes heroic.
By then, methods of collecting and documenting folktales had become more exacting.
Commonly known folktales were used to control the content of the elicited narratives.
