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What is Folklore?

What is Folklore?. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proberbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture. English folklore

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What is Folklore?

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  1. Whatis Folklore? Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proberbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  2. English folklore isthe folk traditionwhich has developed in Englandover a number of centuries. Somestories can be traced back totheirroots, whiletheorigin of othersisuncertainordisputed. Englandaboundswith folklore, in allforms, fromsuchobviousmanifestations as thetraditionalRobin Hood tales, theArthurianlegend, thepoetry tale of Beowulf, tocontemporaryurbanlegendssuch as theBeast of BodminMoor. English folklore islargelydrawnfrom Germanic, Celtic and Christian sources. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  3. What are folktales? In short, a folktaleis a popular short sorypassedon in spokenformfromonegenerationtothenext. Weusuallydon´tknowitsauthor and there are manyversions of it. Thesamestorymayalsoappear in different cultures. Folktalescomprise fables, fairy tales and,even, urbanlegends. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  4. And fairy tales ? A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  5. Like all folktales they are narratives that are not believed to be true , often in timeless settings (once upon a time) in generic, unspecified places (the woods), with one-dimensional characters (completely good or bad). They function to entertain, inspire, and enlighten us. They sometimes have a moral or a warning. In these episodic narratives the main characters are usually humans who often follow a typical pattern (as in a heroic quest) that is resolved partly by magic. http://www.littleredridinghood.ca/?s=6efe0b895060a27b545ae CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  6. The characters and motifs of fairy tales are simple and archetypal: princesses, youngest sons and gallant princes; ogres, ˈəʊɡər / giants, ˈdʒaɪənt/ dragons, and trolls; wicked stepmothers; fairy godmothers and other magical helpers, often talking animals; prohibitions and breaking of prohibitions, curses and spells. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  7. They take place once upon a time rather than in actual times They have existed for thousands of years, although not perhaps recognized as a genre; Many of today's fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in multiple cultures around the world. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  8. The older fairy tales were intended for an audience of adults, as well as children, they were associated with children later; the Brothers Grimm titled their collection Children´s and Household Tales, and the link with children has only grown stronger with time. The oral tradition of thefairy tale camelongbeforethewritten page. Tales weretoldorenacteddramatically, ratherthanwrittendown, and handeddownfromgenerationtogeneration. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  9. Thefairy tale itselfbecame popular amongupper-class in France (1690–1710), and amongthe tales told in that time weretheones of La Fontaine and theContes of Charles Perrault (1697), whosecollectionscontaintheoldestknownforms of variousfairy tales. TheBrothers Grimm compiledseveral tales fortheircollection, toldorallytothembyGermans, becausethe tales derivedfromPerrault. Thefairy tales of a country wereparticularlyrepresentative of it. Although, fairy tales withvery similar plots, characters, and motifs are found spread acrossmanydifferent cultures. CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

  10. Analyzethemaincharacters in tales: • Thehero & heroine (prince & princess) Characteristics • (What are theirvirtues?: kindness? Generosity?..) • Howthefemale role has evolved (compare Snow-White & Mulán) • Thevillain (thewitch, stepmother,etc) Characteristics • (What are theirsins?: envy? greed? Wickedness?...) CULTURE - Folklore - Carmen del Moral

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