Folk Tale facts
While investigating facts about Folk Tales and Folktale Winery, I found out little known, but curios details like:
many Korean folk tales begin "Back when tigers used to smoke..."
how to write a folktale?
The oldest documented version of folk tale Cinderella is from China, not Europe
What folktale mean?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering define folktale. Here are 16 of the best facts about Folktale Definition and Folktale Stories I managed to collect.
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Despite old folk tales about leprechauns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows, you can never reach the end of a rainbow.
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The stories had been folk tales that were well known throughout Europe but had not been written down in book form.
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One folk tale exists in different versions throughout the Indo-European language family, which means that it may originate from an early or proto-Indo-European culture thousands of years ago
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Some folk tales say that Johnny Appleseed planted seeds randomly wherever he went but that was not how it happened. He planted nurseries.
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The original Aladdin folk tale says it takes place in "one of the cities of China". The intended setting may have been Western China where Muslim Uighur and Hui communities live.
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In the original Aladdin folk tale, Princess Jasmine's name is "Badroulbador"
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There is a Swedish folk tale about a living pancake who runs away from 7 starving children
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Lang Bobi Suzi, a Belize folk tale of a female monster who whips naughty children with her giant breasts if they refuse to do her bidding.
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About Vagina Dentata (Latin for toothed vagina ) describes a folk tale in which a woman's vagina is said to contain teeth, with the associated implication that sexual intercourse might result in injury, emasculation , or castration for the man involved.
Why teach folktales?
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The folk tale of Haensel and Gretel was based on the murder of baker Katharina Schraderin by a rival businessman, Hans Metzler. In a cruel twist, Katharina was immortalized as the villain in her own murder story while her murderers were rewritten as the heroes.
Sleeping beauty was based on a folk tale featuring rape and the moral "Lucky people, so 'tis said, Are blessed by Fortune whilst in bed." - source
Cinderella is actually the retelling, with some modification, of a 2,200 year old Chinese folk tale about Ye Xian, a beautiful and intelligent girl who has a magical motherly protector, an ugly stepsister, and ends up fleeing a grand party leaving behind one of her valuable golden shoes. - source
The tales of Brer Rabbit of the Enid Blyton stories fame (to me at least) were based on folk tales told in the US South
