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Rowan County - Folktales & Anedotes [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
Manuscript titled Over the Waves: Folktales and Anecdotes of Rowan County by Nancy ...
Morris, Nancy
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Typical Antagonism Revealed in Japanese Folktales [PDF]

open access: yes
application/pdfThe two main topics of Japanese folktales are marriage and fortune-making. This thesis analyzes the latter type of folktales in an attempt to reveal the spirit of people who lived in a typical Japanese village community to hand down these ...
Kawamori, Hiroshi   +2 more
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Folktales of Newfoundland : the resilience of oral tradition, volume II

open access: yes, 1996
2 volumes. A comprehensive collection of Newfoundland folktales, with detailed indexes.Bibliography: vol. 2, p.
Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000; Lovelace, Martin J.; Widdowson, J. D. A. (John David Allison)
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Female role models in Bukusu folktales: Education at the mother’s hearth

open access: yesCogent Education, 2016
Folktales serve a descriptive, as well as prescriptive role, by consistently depicting societal and cultural norms. Sexist portrayals sanction the marginality of Bukusu women, particularly when these reflect prevailing gender roles and expectations ...
Namulundah Florence
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A Folk Story from Dhofar A Pathway to Indigenous Knowledge

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2015
Folktales serve certain aspects and involve meaningful intentions in the society. This paper assess a Dhofari folk story in Oman. The story denotes the significance of folk explanation for the first emergence of poultry in Dhofar.
Ali Tigani ElMahi   +1 more
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The illustration of folktales. Creating a book of Norwegian folktales for Ukrainian readers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Folktales have been an oral tradition for generations. It was transformed into literal work and since then they exist in books. The illustrating of folktales is a single artistic work with the main aim of showing the readers the traditions, cultural ...
Lolina, Nadiia
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Category of Terrible in the Tale and the Ethnic and Cultural Education in Kindergarten

open access: yesЭтническая культура, 2019
Relatives of child told him the tales before appearance the kindergartens as special institutions, and then the role of this narrators was passed on the kindergarten teachers, which were standing to read the folk and author's work on books.
Elena A. Samodelova
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AN ANALYSIS OF SETSWANA FOLKTALES FROM A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In Botswana, gender is constructed in many different ways including but not limited to the names given to children, the games children play, through songs and proverbs and through messages presented in mainane (folktales).
R Nhlekisana, Nhlekisana, R
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Zulu folktales, two [PDF]

open access: yes, 1942
Zulu folktales, two by L. Mahlangu (written in Zulu).
Mahlangu, L.
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DIMINUTIVE FORMS IN TITLES OF RUSSIAN FOLKTALES

open access: yes, 2019
The paper presents findings of the linguistic analysis of Russian folktales. The authors of the paper address a little-known aspect of the folktale - the functioning of diminutive forms in the titles of folktales. The object of the study is a collection "
Ageeva, Juliya, Jingting, Xu, Ling, Wang
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