storytelling tradition
Oral tale-passing custom
A storytelling tradition is a cultural practice of passing narratives from generation to generation, typically through oral performance.
Different cultures maintain distinct storytelling traditions—West African griots, Irish seanchaí, Native American winter counts.
The phrase emphasizes continuity and community: The storytelling tradition in her family goes back generations.
Stories told this way carry history, values, and identity.
- epicsLong heroic narratives
- griotsHereditary oral historians
- folktalesTraditional oral narratives
- fairy talesTraditional magical children's stories
- tall talesFantastical exaggerated stories
ballads · ceremonial songs · migration stories · regional folklore · moral lessons · bedtime stories · sagas · folk heroes · heroes · archetypes · Scheherazade · ancestral · myths · tribal myths · creation myths · religious texts · chronicles · parables
- Irish AmericanaIrish diaspora, Irish heritage, Irish identity, Irish traditions, Irish Catholic
- Family Wisdomlife lessons, old sayings, wise words, folk wisdom
- Breslov Hasidismhitbodedut, disciples, followers, simcha, simple faith
storytelling traditionliterary tradition
Inherited body of texts
book culture · written record · written word · digital media · silent reading
storytelling traditionexperimental fiction
Nontraditional narrative prose
interactive fiction · multimedia storytelling · modernist literature · breaking with tradition