Folktale Examples
Examples of folk tales include 'Johnny Appleseed,' 'Babe the Blue Ox' and the 'Headless Horseman.' These are types of American folktales. A folktale is any story or tradition that were originally verbally shared among generations. Over time, they have been written down, but are still considered to be folktales. Apr 01, 2019 The folktale genre includes, but isn’t limited to: myths, tall tales, legends, fables, and fairy tales. The settings for stories in this genre can be real or imaginary. Folktale genre stories are written in an informal and informational way that imparts a moral based theme. Scroll below now to see 25 folktale fiction genre examples.
The great folktale collectors of the 19th century would ask older people from different social classes about the tales, songs and customs they remembered from their youth. These oral tales were often scrappy and poorly remembered, but some were vivid and dramatically told. The collectors would write them down, often regularising the story structure, and moralising or sentimentalising them to appeal to Victorian tastes.
Once collected, the tales were published in stout three-volume sets, and tended – until recently – to be locked away in libraries.Many of the tales could be reworked as entertaining stories intended for children: huge story collections such as Andrew Lang’s 12-volume series of ‘coloured’ Fairy Books (published between 1889 and 1910) were the childhood reading of writers such as CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Alan Garner. These traditional tales powerfully shaped the imaginations of the first generation of fantasy writers; they were followed by younger authors such as Susan Cooper, JK Rowling, and Susanna Clarke, whose novel about magic, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, was last year adapted for BBC One.To these writers it was clear that there is still much that is important and relevant in our traditional stories: they explore some crucial, and somewhat timeless, questions about how human beings live in the world. Now, many of these 19th-century collections are freely available online for anyone to explore and retell. And if you travel around Britain, as I did, making the BBC Radio 4 series The Lore of the Land, and you ask people about local legends, you find that they’re still surprisingly alive in modern folk’s imaginations.
Here are nine less well-known tales of the magical beings that haunt our British countryside 1) Ursilla from Stronsay, in OrkneyThe tale: A strong-willed girl, Ursilla wouldn’t marry any of the local well-born men. When she inherited her father’s estate, she married the man she’d always fancied – a lowborn barn-man. He turned out be rather unsatisfactory as a husband, and there were no children on the horizon.A sad Ursilla went down to the seashore and let seven tears fall at spring-tide. This summoned a large male ‘selkie’, one of the seal-folk, who offered to become her lover, for at the spring tide he could take human form. After that, Ursilla indeed had a good number of children, each born with strange webbing between their fingers and toes.
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The midwives would cut off the webbing in order to keep Ursilla’s secret.The history: This story was collected by the great Orkney folklorist Walter Traill Dennison (1825–94). He was a farmer who was born and lived most of his life on Sanday in Orkney – and thus had insider knowledge of local traditions.
He published a good number of stories in Orcadian dialect locally, and his versions of the Orkney tales are among the best known. There are lots of other Orcadian tales, some in their original dialect, to be found at for all things Orcadian: 2) The witch-hare of ClevelandThe tale: Some farmers out hunting hares had had a disappointing day when they ran into Nanny X, a well-known local witch. “I can tell you where you’ll find a hare to chase,” she said, “but mind you don’t set a black dog on it”. And sure enough, under the hedge Nanny X indicated, there lay a huge hare.It set off, zigzagging for miles across the countryside with the hounds and hunters in hot pursuit. Just as the hare, doubling back, reached the hedge around Nanny X’s little cottage, a random black dog appeared from nowhere and snapped at its haunches, tearing the skin and biting a lump out of its leg. When the hunters stepped into the cottage to apologise to Nanny X for not preventing the black dog’s attack, they found her groaning in her bed, with a lump out of her thigh, just where the black dog’s jaws had caught the hare.The history: The Reverend JC Atkinson was the vicar of the parish of Danby in Cleveland for more than 40 years in the 19th century, and published his ‘reminiscences’ ( Forty Years in a Moorland Parish) in 1891.
Now available as a free e-book, it includes a good number of local folk-tales and traditions. 3) Black Shuck of East AngliaThe tale: There are many tales of this creature: a huge, rough-coated black hound with fiery red eyes and slavering jaws. One eyewitness tells how, in.
