Quotes About Folktale

A harmadik napon partra szállt a félkegyelm?, pórázon vezetett macskájával. Alighogy megérkezett a vásártérre, a macska azon nyomban öldösni kezdte az egereket. Megölt közülük tízet, húszat, százat, igazi vérfürd?t rendezett. (…) 152. oldal, Nemtudomki, nemtudommi avagy a jó tanácsot adó asszony

The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don't you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale

My Lord Bag of Rice.

As Andersen told it, the tale was not for young children, not even called 'The Little'-just, 'The Mermaid.' It's about love and grief, a myth of longing and sacrifice, far closer, say, to Goethe's Parable than to any jovial folktale, much less to today's manufactured juvenile distractions.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin." The wolf then answered to that: "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape...there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

His nose was his most distinctive feature: curved like a scimitar at the top but bent flat at the tip, and with the bone of the bridge cut like a diamond--in short, a nose out of a folktale, the sort of sizable, convoluted, intricately turned nose that, for many centuries, confronted though they have been by every imaginable hardship, the Jews have never stopped making.

The folktale must be re-created each time. At the core of the narrative is the storyteller, a prominent figure in every village or hamlet, who has his or her own style and appeal. And it is through this individual that the timeless folktale is linked with the world of its listeners and with history.

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He