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Meanings of folk tale in English
Traditional story that is passed down orally.
Related terms
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conte popular Spanish
leyenda Usage of folk tale in English
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The first thing we did was a rendition of a folk tale.
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This folk tale is one of the short stories he does not write.
3
The Bontoc people have another folk tale regarding head taking.
4
The illustrated folk tale is of the type known as Nara ehon, or story painting.
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He understood the story, it seems, as if it were some riddling old folk tale.
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Some residents say he is simply a folk tale, others swear he is a terrifying spirit.
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This is the ultimate American folk tale -and it's still being written in real time.
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The moment art, especially sculpture, passes out of the domain of the folk tale it becomes pagan.
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It's going to be another folk tale.
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There's an old folk tale that dates from a time when the Russian-Finnish border was being redrawn.
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That might be because I was introduced to storytelling from the oral traditions of folk tale and fairytale.
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One thing is certain, nothing persists so strongly and lives so long as a fable or folk tale.
13
The six-minute short (above) flows like a folk tale being read to a child in a far-distant future.
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New-borns were jerked this way and that by misunderstanding, cringing from the crucifix because of a folk tale they half-knew.
15
The ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev first approached Liadov to set this famous Russian folk tale to music for his Ballets Russes.
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The New Yorker, August 6, 1932 P. 13 A fanciful Irish folk tale done in the Irish dialect.
Translations for folk tale
Catalan