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Meanings of folktale in English

Catalan
conte popular
Spanish
leyenda

A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.

        conte popular
        Usage of folktale in English
        1
        You may find, for example, an author's source note for a folktale.
        From cover to cover: evaluating and reviewing children's books
        2
        She'd heard a folktale like that once, but she didn't remember where.
        Cibola Burn
        3
        Think you'd never heard a folktale in your life, Pete said.
        Street magic
        4
        The German folktale was initially published in 1884 by Johanna Spyri.
        The South African
        5
        There is a folktale we tell our children concerning the shape of Velada Borthan.
        A Time of Changes
        6
        Hey Joe has the dark resonance of a folktale.
        The Guardian
        7
        He said it came from a folktale about a cookie boy who outruns all his pursuers.
        The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
        8
        As time went on, the folktale evolved.
        The South African
        9
        In Sisters, folktale terror shunts up against the contemporary and eternal terror of domestic and sexual abuse.
        The Guardian
        10
        The result is a lurid revisionist pageant that reinterprets Mormon history in the style of an African folktale.
        Reuters
        11
        There was clearly at least as much folktale here as there was history, but that is hardly unusual.
        Act of will
        12
        He heard his first folktale from the part time barber in his village in the Glens of Antrim.
        The Irish Times
        13
        This is the kind of pleasing symmetry you find in a folktale, or in a novel by Oyeyemi.
        The Guardian
        14
        We all know the old folktale.
        The Irish Times
        15
        The folktale of Romulus and Remus and Catullus' picture of the young Torquatus represent these two poles (350.
        The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activit...
        16
        The description shows Tchaikovsky's music conveys an ancient Russian folktale that celebrates springtime and the pagan god of love, Lel.
        Radio NZ
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