wut r they and give me examples please.
2006-11-16 11:38:11 · 5 answers · asked by ♥ ♥i'm all smiles♥ ♥ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Unwritten litteratur, in the form of riddles, stories, rhymes, songs, etc. of a certain culture. They circulate by word of mouth (of course, since it's unwritten). Any story you know of that has been written down by the Brothers Grimm are all folktales (or at least, they were, before they were written down).
2006-11-16 11:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by darkskaners 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here are a few folk tales as well as some classical fok heroes:
1. Paul Bunyan
2. Johnny Appleseed
3. John Henry
5. Pecos Bill
6. Almost every character of the Wild West (Bat Masterson, The Earpes, Billy the Kid, Jesse & Frank James, for example)
7. Bonnie and Clyde
8. Joe Magerack
9. Big Bad Jonn (Song by Jimmy Dean)
10. Sergeant Alvin York
2006-11-16 19:52:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They're stories that get passed around by word of mouth. They can be happy, sad, scarey, whatever.
You want examples?
How about the ghost stories every town seems to have? Like the young woman that is hitchhiking, then some nice guy gives her a ride and later it turns out she's been dead for ages and that was her ghost trying to get home?
2006-11-16 19:49:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jackie Blue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
STORIES told time after time to put kids to sleep no not what happened many many years ago on some farm i think
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2006-11-16 21:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by mpmailloux 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once upon a time.
Coach
2006-11-16 19:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Thanks for the Yahoo Jacket 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋