folklore tales
Passed-down oral narratives
Folklore tales are traditional stories passed down through generations within a culture, typically by word of mouth before being written down.
These narratives include fairy tales, legends, myths, and fables that often feature supernatural elements, moral lessons, or explanations of natural phenomena.
The phrase is somewhat redundant, since folklore already encompasses such tales, but it emphasizes the narrative tradition specifically.
Grandmother used to tell us folklore tales from the old country.
The class studied folklore tales from different cultures around the world.
- witchesPractitioners of dark magic
- wicked stepmotherFolkloric maternal villain
- fairy godmotherMagical benefactor figure
- creation mythsTraditional origin-of-everything tales
- ghost storiesTales of the supernatural
heroic deeds · brave knight · oral tradition · old wives tales · moral lessons · proverbs · talking animals · oral histories · allegories · origin stories · dragons · cautionary tales · epic poems · magic spells · three wishes · shapeshifters · trickster figures · parables
- Caribbean Folklorejumbie, duppy, Anansi, moongazer, river spirit
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Moon FestivalsMid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes, full moon, harvest moon, jade rabbit
- Transylvaniavampire, Dracula, castle, Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians
- Caribbean Writers
- Trinidadian Writers
folklore taleshistorical records
Preserved accounts of the past
historical record · primary sources · official records · eyewitness testimony · court records