Definition of Folk tale

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

Exact synonyms: Folktale
Examples of category: Flying Carpet
Group relationships: Folklore
Generic synonyms: Narration, Narrative, Story, Tale
Specialized synonyms: Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights' Entertainment, Thousand And One Nights

Definition of Folk tale

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of folktale) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Folk Tale

folk dancing
folk devil
folk devils
folk etymologies
folk etymology
folk hero
folk house
folk medicine
folk music
folk poet
folk rock
folk singer
folk singers
folk song
folk songs
folk tale (current term)
folk writer
folker
folkers
folkie
folkier
folkies
folkiest
folkiness
folkish
folkishly
folkishness
folkishnesses
folkland
folklands

Literary usage of Folk tale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"A FOLK-TALE may be studied from two quite different points of view. It may be regarded as a single example of a larger or smaller world-wide class of ..."

2. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"Recently, when I was looking over some old field-notes, I came across a hitherto unpublished short Zuñi folk-tale which I recorded during my first visit to ..."

3. Journal of Biblical Literature by Society of Biblical Literature (1908)
"The folk-tale often depends for its power to capture the memory upon some pat saying or unexpected ... The folk-tale proper seldom teaches a moral lesson. ..."

4. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"As already stated, the Council have acted upon the suggestion made at the last Annual Meeting, and appointed a Folk-Tale Committee. ..."

5. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the by Raymond Wilson Chambers (1921)
"In a Sicilian version of the folk-tale the doors spring open of themselves as the foe ... Yet there are other features in the folk-tale which are entirely ..."

6. Educating by Story-telling: Showing the Value of Story-telling as an by Katherine Dunlap Cather (1918)
"203 The Discontented Pig (Thuringian folk tale — Ethics, ... 227 The Rabbit and the Easter Eggs (Bavarian folk tale) . .228 The Easter Eggs (Ethics) 229 ..."

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