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	Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Folktales of type 1191, in which the devil builds a bridge, but is then cheated out of the human soul he expected as payment.
		Folktales about greedy individuals who would rather have nothing than give up part of what appears to be within their reach.
		Folktales of type 1066, in which boys, playing that they are executioners, end up killing one of their comrades.
	encarta.msn.com /weblink_861504702/Folklore_and_Mythology_Electronic_Texts.html (4222 words)

	MSN Encarta - Folktales
		Folktales, generic term for the various kinds of narrative prose literature found in the oral traditions of the world.
		One of the many forms of folklore, folktales are heard and remembered, and they are subject to various alterations in the course of retellings.
		As they are diffused (transmitted through a culture), some folktales may pass in and out of written literature (for example, the “Rip Van Winkle” story), and some stories of literary origin may cross over into oral tradition (for example, the anecdote about George Washington and the cherry tree).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556135 (1246 words)

	Odin - Norwegian folktales and legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Folktales are free ranging and imaginative stories which have passed from storyteller to storyteller from time immemorial.
		Despite having old roots, folktales were not written down in Norway until the nineteenth century, owning to the fact that folktales were held in low esteem among the educated classes.
		At the time when folktales began to be collected it was particularly in the lower strata of the rural population that the storytellers were to be found.
	www.odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990474/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (4064 words)

	Story Arts \| Cultural Studies
		Folktales are windows into other cultures as well as mirrors of ourselves.
		Out of respect to the ancient people who have preserved and shaped the folktales over time, contemporary tellers should become as familiar as possible with the context in which the tale was told.
		Social studies exploration of the context in which a tale might be told, the historical times, environment, food, housing, religion and so forth, can add to the joy of telling and to the respect a teller brings to the sharing of the story.
	www.storyarts.org /classroom/retelling/culturalstudies.html (155 words)

	Folktales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many people know folktales as "fairy tales." There has been a lot of confusion brought about by the term "fairy tales." To begin with, a big problem with the use of the label fairy tales is that many folktales do not have fairies in them.
		Some folktales are animal tales, religious tales, or catch tales.
		A definition of folktales which has been widely cited by scholars is from Berkeley anthropologist William Bascom.
	www.pinoystuff.com /folklore/folktales/folktales.htm (165 words)

	, Indian Folktales, Kids Folktale for Children, Hindi American Asian Folktales from Africa, Russia, Estonian, Ukranian, ...
		Ukrainian Folktales: Little Wolf ran away across the field, but so hungry was he that his legs carried him of themselves to the village...
		Ukrainian Folktales: Fox had only just crept into the henhouse and gone after the chickens when the man seized him by the tail and gave him such a beating that it left him more dead than alive...
		Ukrainian Folktales: Pigeon was sitting on the bough of a tree when a hunter came to the forest and made to shoot it.
	www.4to40.com /folktales/default.asp?article=folktales_index&counter=150 (325 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Russian Folktales
		Students are introduced to the genre of folktales and engage in a study of several Russian folktales.
		The Russian folktales that have been passed down through the years are imbued with elements of Russian culture and history: the forest, snow, wooden huts, village dances, the tsar, boyars, fur hats, etc.
		Folktales are available online at the Russian Folktales site or in the books listed in the Sources section.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2320 (857 words)

	, Indian Folktales, Kids Folktale for Children, Hindi American Asian Folktales from Africa, Russia, Estonian, Ukranian, ...
		Latvian Folktales: The baron came riding up and his eyes widened at the sight of the shepherd running round a tree-stump on which stood a boiling, steaming jug of gruel...
		Latvian Folktales: They came to the farmer's house, and the farmer led the lord to the storeroom where he had two strong, brawny youths lying in wait for him...
		Latvian Folktales: The captains sat on their bridges and whistled, trying to bring on the wind, for what else was there to do, and they fumed and raged and cursed the calm...
	www.4to40.com /folktales?article=folktales_index&counter=190 (333 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the folktales we discuss today tell us about the roles that are ssignied to women and family in a cultuiral environment, they also serve to institutionalize or "solidify" these roles.
		There is a type of folktale fairly unique to Africa, which asks the audience to debate a given issue.
		Folktales serve to explain the world around us: they provide a "cosmology" that explains the order of things.
	www2.hmc.edu /~delaet/LIT190.HTM (592 words)

	LIS 6585--Materials for Children: Lecture Outline 6
		Folktales were carried from one place to another as groups of people migrated and settled in new areas.
		Folktales have also been carried by individuals- soldiers and sailors, captives and slaves, minstrels and bards, merchants and traders--who have moved from one place to another temporarily or permanently.
		Folktales were originally told to an audience of both adults and children; the oral process of telling and adapting folktales continues today in many parts of the world, but among literate peoples, the process is found less often now except in storytelling to children.
	nosferatu.cas.usf.edu /lis/lis6585/class/tradlit.html (2400 words)

	Folktales, Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Folktales are the beginning of the oral tradition of tales.
		Folktales were used to explain the wonders of nature, seasons, stars and animals.
		More can be learned from folktales about the inner problems of human beings, and of the right solutions to their predicaments in any society, than from any other types of story within a child's conprehension.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/childrens_writing/8385 (464 words)

	Japanese Folktales \| National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For more information on choosing and using Japanese folktales and literature in the elementary school classroom, please refer to the Japan Digest Fiction about Japan in the Elementary Curriculum by Mary Hammond Bernson.
		Some of these stories entertain; some tell what the people thought was important to pass on to their children; and others tell something about the culture of the people as it was long ago.
		An excellent unit about Japanese and Chinese folktales is Rabbit in the Moon, available from the SPICE Project at Stanford University.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/LP/LS25.html (702 words)

	83.06.07: Black Onyx: Black Folktales
		Folktales are stories that give people a means for sharing their culture, history and values.
		The use of folktales as a medium for teaching can be used for any grade level from the elementary to the secondary level; there are suggestions for application to either level later in the unit.
		Folktales help students overcome a sense of helplessness and anger that is a side effect of racism in America.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/6/83.06.07.x.html (4157 words)

	Turkish and Cypriot Folktales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A folktale is an oral tale told by the common folk in a culture.
		Folktales helped people learn and understand the customs and culture of their community.
		Folktale Defined - This is the Encarta Encylopedia article on folktales.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/webthepoetgl.html (1445 words)

	Hoppa - Myths and Folktales in Western Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Faroe Islands, the Nordic Countries, Stamps, Myths and Folktales, Illustration, Mythology, Inuit, Sami, Shamanism Information database for the "history of civilizations" stamp-issues of the Faroese Philatelic Office.
		France, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Greece, Scotland, Wales, Bretagne, the Nordic Countries, Myths and Folktales, Mythology A collection of myths and legend from Classical Greece and Rome, Norse and Celtic mythology, as well as Arthurian legend.
		Iceland, the United Kingdom, the Nordic Countries, Films, Myths and Folktales Beowulf and Grendel starring Gerry Butler,Stellan Skarsgard, Ingvar Sigurdson, Sarah Polley, Filmed in Iceland.
	www.hoppa.com /eu/Myths_And_Folktales (166 words)

	Folktales: What are they? Types of tales
		Folktales, according to Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown's Essentials of Children's Literature are "stories that grow out of the lives and imaginations of the people, or folk." They are a form of traditional literature which began as an attempt to explain and understand the natural and spiritual world.
		Interestingly, the folktales that traveled by land changed a great deal because of the retelling process, while those that traveled by sea were more similar in version.
		Folktales, a specific type of folklore, have lasted through a long period of time due to their universality.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/tradcarney.htm (964 words)

	Distinctions of Arabic Folktales - Al Jadid
		For instance, the folktale Clever Hassan from Palestine is equivalent to Abu Hajlan from Syria and to Mhammad Belhajjala from Tunisia.
		Since the tribal structure was the nucleus of social and political life for a very long period in Arabic history, the values of such a culture influenced the folktales and legends.
		It is interesting to note that although folktales might include supernatural and magical elements, they are usually based on real life events that stem from the Arabic culture.
	almashriq.hiof.no /general/000/070/079/al-jadid/aljadid-magic.html (912 words)

	African-American Folktales
		Folktales might be said to have three audiences, all of them in some sense "original": The people who hear and help create the oral tales; folklorists who persuade story-tellers to perform their tales for publication; and readers of the published collections.
		Comparisons might also be drawn with contemporary African-American humor, rap lyrics, the tales of the southwestern humor tradition, and the fiction of Langston Hughes, whose Simple stories update the John tales, and Toni Morrison, whose Song of Solomon is based on the tale of the flying Africans.
		A comparison between Zora Neale Hurston's fiction and the folktales she published might illuminate her strategies in folktale editing as well as fiction.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/african.html (1144 words)

	93.02.12: Puerto Rican Folktales
		The folktales of Puerto Rico reflect the culture of the people who have lived or influenced the lifestyle of those people living there, the Tainos, the Spaniards, and the Africans.
		Folktales are stories that transmit culture and values, if children are deprived of these stories, a very important and crucial element of their growth and development has been left out.
		Stokes of ghosts and the devil abound in Puerto Rican folktales.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html (5964 words)

	Appalachian Folktales in Children's Literature and Collections
		The term folktale is used very broadly on these pages to include many kinds of folklore retellings or adaptations in books, recordings, dramas, and films.
		For other folktales and songs, it is our intention to list those that came from southern Appalachia, whether the authors and illustrators are natives or residents of Appalachia or not.
		Many of the picture books in these folktale bibliographies are not "true picture books," with fully interdependent text and art, but illustrated stories from folklore.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/bibs/Folkbib.htm (4931 words)

	English Language Arts - A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Level (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the history of literature and to develop their understanding of common elements and themes that pervade literature from various parts of the world.
		Folktales are considered traditional literature, along with fables, myths, and legends.
		Such stories were traditionally transmitted orally from one generation to the next, carrying the embellishments or adaptations of particular storytellers, eras, and cultures.
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/ela/gr3_samp (712 words)

	folktale
		Even the forms folktales take are demonstrably similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative techniques have been successful in showing these relationships.
		Runs in folktales and the dynamics of Turkish runs: a case study.
		Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale.
	www.infoplease.com /ce5/CE018824.html (386 words)

	93.02.10: Folktales of Zora Neale Hurston
		As in the previous folktale, many tales in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men have moral lessons in which virtues are rewarded.
		The folktale “Why the Waves Have Whitecaps” is an attempt to explain an element of nature.
		The objective of this activity is that the students will grow in the ability to understand and analyze folktales and the main characters in these folktales.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.10.x.html (2245 words)

	Literature For Children Series 8: Folktales Then And Now, Folktale Characters, Folktale Wisdom, Folktales From Afar FS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Folktale Characters---Jorinda And Joringel and The Donkey Prince welcome students to a special world richly populated with kings and queens, witches and wizards, princes and princesses, giants and elves.
		Folktale characters are seen to be either all good or all bad, and the terms one-dimensional and supernatural are introduced.
		Folktales From Afar---Folktales are viewed as a way of sharing the customs, values and feelings of people from cultures different from our own.
	www.buyindies.com /listings/L/8/AIMS-L8.html (383 words)

	Academic Scholars Institute: Folktales on the web
		Folktales from Japan: Selected and edited by D.L. Ashliman.
		Mayan folktales: From the Folk Art & Craft Exchange, these tales were told to Fernando Peñalosa by don Pedro Miguel Say, a famous Q'anjob'al storyteller from San Miguel Acátan, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
		Puerto Rican folktales: Designed as a curriculum unit by a member of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
	newarkwww.rutgers.edu /guides/asi_2002/folktales.html (782 words)

	Kingston upon Hull - Libraries : Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The aim is to work with a diverse range of people in hull, particularly encouraging the involvement of hull's ethnic minority, asylum seeker and refugee communities, to collect folktales that reflect cultural diversity in hull.
		Initially, the folktales will be exhibited as laminated, multilingual 'chained books'.
		The published folktales will be distributed widely and will form part of the libraries stock of multilingual resource material.
	www.hullcc.gov.uk /libraries/local_global_folktales.php (146 words)

	culture.htm(FCCS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The merits of these folktales lie not so much in their literary worth, as in the common folk wisdom they convey.
		Today, many of these folktales have survived as a short proverb, widely used and understood in the Chinese language.
		The common characters in these folktales could be: a magistrate, a king, a patriot, a wise man, a foolish man, a soldier, a young scholar, a maiden, a good son, or a hardworking servant.
	www.interlog.com /~fccs/culture.htm (243 words)

	Lesson 7 - Reading and Writing Pourquoi Folktales: Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Children are introduced to a collection of short pourquoi folktales that includes the origin of the story, tips for telling the story, and a scientific explanation to answer the question it poses.
		They continue to write their pourquoi folktales and go on a word hunt to search for words with the inflectional ending ed.
		Introduce leveled pourquoi folktales and other folktales to each group and remind children to use various strategies to construct meaning.
	www.michigan.gov /scope/0,1607,7-155-10710_13476_13477-63836--,00.html (763 words)

	folktales
		Every night around the world mommies and daddies are reading stories and telling folktales to their children to get then ready to go to sleep.
		Folktales first began as stories that were told before people learned to read and write.
		List the titles of at least three or four common folktales on chart paper and have the students share the titles of several others that are familiar to them.
	www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu /tif/long/folktales.html (369 words)

	Lesson 8 - Retelling Pourquoi Folktales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They write the ending of their pourquoi folktale and are assessed on this week's wall words and words from their sorts.
		Children examine the tips for telling their assigned pourquoi folktales and practice using the posters to guide an oral retelling of their stories.
		Have children reread their pourquoi folktale and the tips for telling the story.
	www.michigan.gov /scope/0,1607,7-155-10710_13476_13477-63842--,00.html (735 words)

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