Voorbeelden van folktale

• 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.