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Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT We studied the oral stories 226 U.S. Latine caregivers (most Mexican‐born, earning under $50,000 annually) shared with their children (Mage = 51.81 months) when prompted to tell a science‐ or nature‐related story. Inductive qualitative coding and analyses revealed personal experience stories—reminiscing, caregiver memories, and fictionalized ...
Andrea C. Bühler‐Wassmann +5 more
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Contrasting Adventure Folktales and Family Folktales: A Study of Morality in Literary Works [PDF]
, 2016 Reading folktales to surmise the morality can be so puzzling because morality is not simply about what to do with good and bad categorization, but it is also about how doing morality with its impacts thereafter.
Siyaswati, Siyaswati
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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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Hul Topol - Fall of the Moon A narrative of etiologies from the Bunaq of Lamaknen
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2016 This article makes a contribution to the documentation of the genre of oral literature known as zapal amongst the Bunaq, a Papuan-speaking group of central Timor.
Antoinette Schapper
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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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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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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 This paper concludes the study of the folktales included in Ibn ʿĀṣim’s Ḥadāʾiq al-azāhir. That work of Andalusian literature includes abundant folkloric materials which make it indispensable for studying world and Spanish folklore.
Desirée López Bernal
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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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Meaning in Morphological Method
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT The reception history of Goethean morphology is not only interdisciplinary in scope, but it also comprises various contested interpretations of morphological method, such as how to determine the relation between metamorphosis and type. This article surveys some of the recent philosophical reception history of Goethean morphology with a focus ...
Isabel Jacobs, Daniel Whistler
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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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