Search results
- DictionaryFolk tale/ˈfōk ˌtāl/
noun
- 1. a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
Powered by Oxford Languages
People also ask
What is a folk tale?
What does folktale mean?
What is the difference between a folktale and a legend?
What are the different types of folktales?
A folktale is a story made up and handed down by the common people, often with no known author or origin. Learn more about the word history, examples, synonyms, and related words of folktale from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Folktales are stories in the oral tradition, or tales that people tell each other out loud, rather than stories in written form. They're closely related to many storytelling traditions, including fables, myths, and fairy tales.
Folk tale definition: a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.. See examples of FOLK TALE used in a sentence.
A folk tale is a story that parents have passed on to their children through speech over many years. Learn more about the meaning, origin, and types of folk tales with examples from literature and sources on the web.
A folktale is a traditional story that people of a particular region or group repeat among themselves. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of folktale with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
…the domain of once oral “folk” material that children have kept alive—folktales and fairy tales; fables, sayings, riddles, charms, tongue twisters; folksongs, lullabies, hymns, carols, and other simple poetry; rhymes of the street, the playground, the nursery; and, supremely, Mother Goose and nonsense verse.
A folktale travels with great ease from one storyteller to another. Since a particular story is characterized by its basic pattern and by narrative motifs rather than by its verbal form, it passes language boundaries without difficulty.
