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What is a Folk Tale?
• A folk tale is a story with no known author. Folk tales are passed down from one generation to another by word of mouth.
Components of Folktales
• Stories that are generally passed along by
word of mouth from generation to
generation.
– Examples: professionals who tell stories for
entertainment, teachers who use stories to
teach lessons, mothers and fathers who share
stories with their children.
.
Components of Folktales
• Folktales are creations from a culture and its people. You will often notice dialect and cultural context clues that indicate that it is from a particular region.
• Folktales have no single author and were often told by generations of storytellers before they were ever written down.
• Because they rely upon storytellers they continuously change over time.
Central Components of Folktales
Morals:
A value or lesson taught
through the story.
Motifs:
A repeated figure in a
design or reoccurring
theme or lesson
occurring over multiple
tales.
Examples:
avoid strangers, don’t
judge a book by its
cover, mind over muscle
Examples:
A journey, magic races,
door/box that should not
be opened, great floods
Types of Folktales
• Trickster Tale—a story in which a character, often an animal, outsmarts an enemy. Can often be classified as a type creation myth.
• Origin Story—a story about origins, or beginnings, of something in nature. Can also be classified as a creation myth.
• Fairy Tale—a story with magical beings who change the lives of ordinary people.
Types of Folktales
• Legends-a story about an amazing event
or a hero’s amazing accomplishment.
Some legends are inspired from real
people or real events whose reputations
grew ―larger than life‖ over the years.
– Two types of legends:
• Urban Legends
• Tall Tales
Types of Folktales
Tall Tales:
A fantasy story about an
amazing, larger than life
person. They are
humorous, highly
exaggerated stories that
are not meant to be
believed, but immortalize
legendary figures. Ex.
Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill
Urban Legends:
Modern tales of bizarre,
horrible, or spooky
stories for entertainment
or scare tactics.
Examples: the
hitchhiker that vanishes,
kids who get killed while
―parking,‖ waking up in
a tub of ice with kidneys
cut out.
Types of Folktales
• Myths—society’s oldest stories. Myths are
designed to reflect traditions and beliefs.
• They are intended to explain mysteries of world
or customs and ideas of society.
• Parables (about people) and Fables (about
animals and objects) are types of message
myths.
• Creation myths explain how the world came to
be. Trickster tales are often creation myths.
What is a myth?
A myth is a story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings.
What is a fable?
• A fable is a very brief story in prose or in verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.