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The state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2023 In this paper I investigate the state of Hausa children’s folktales and play-songs in Gombe, Nigeria to ascertain whether they (folktales and play-songs of children) are still alive and active in this culturally important town in northern Nigeria.
Bilkisu Abubakar Arabi
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Two folktales (Vampire beings in Greek folktales)
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2022 This paper attempts to elaborate how the vampire theme is conceptualized in Greek folktales. It’s a case study of the Greek folk tales: “Gelloudi” and “The Lamia bride” found in the compilation Paramythokores (2002). The folktale complies with a strict formulaic style of oral narration and the most time-resilient elements of storytelling are the motifs
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 778-789, July 2026.ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola +3 more
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Vägivaldne surm muinasjuttudes
Keel ja Kirjandus"Violent death in folktales". Folktales are often rife with scenes of bloodshed and violence, even cruelty. Such violence frequently serves a narrative purpose, propelling the plot, facilitating character development, and delivering poetic justice.
Risto Järv
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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2018 Resumen. En la Granada nazarí de finales del siglo XIV, un literato llamado Ibn ʿĀṣim reproducía la primera versión ibérica del cuento folclórico ATU 1373. Partiendo de ella –cuyo texto es el único árabe medieval desarrollado que nos ha sido transmitido–,
Desirée López Bernal
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Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but ...
Anna Notsu
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2017 Contemporary scientific studies of ecosystems encompass different aspects of vocality, including the communication systems (“languages”) of individual animal species.
Zmago Šmitek
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 Digitisation has altered and reinvented the fabric of African folklore, redefining the concept of the audience and the performance, as well as the audience-performer relationship.
Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe
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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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