Traditional story that is passed down orally.
A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk.
1The first thing we did was a rendition of a folk tale.
2This folk tale is one of the short stories he does not write.
3The Bontoc people have another folk tale regarding head taking.
4The illustrated folk tale is of the type known as Nara ehon, or story painting.
5He understood the story, it seems, as if it were some riddling old folk tale.
6Some residents say he is simply a folk tale, others swear he is a terrifying spirit.
7This is the ultimate American folk tale -and it's still being written in real time.
8The moment art, especially sculpture, passes out of the domain of the folk tale it becomes pagan.
9It's going to be another folk tale.
10There's an old folk tale that dates from a time when the Russian-Finnish border was being redrawn.
11That might be because I was introduced to storytelling from the oral traditions of folk tale and fairytale.
12One thing is certain, nothing persists so strongly and lives so long as a fable or folk tale.
13The six-minute short (above) flows like a folk tale being read to a child in a far-distant future.
14New-borns were jerked this way and that by misunderstanding, cringing from the crucifix because of a folk tale they half-knew.
15The ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev first approached Liadov to set this famous Russian folk tale to music for his Ballets Russes.
16The New Yorker, August 6, 1932 P. 13 A fanciful Irish folk tale done in the Irish dialect.
Translations for folk tale