- "Folklore is the whole of oral traditions shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture."
A genre of fantasy that features mythical creatures, magical themes, and ancient legends.
Types of Folk Tales: This refers to different categories of folklore such as myths, fables, legends, and folktales.
Elements of Fairy Tales: These are common features found in most fairy tales, such as magic, fantasy, and happy endings.
Historical and Cultural Context: Investigating the culture and history surrounding a particular fairy tale or folktale, including the customs, traditions, beliefs, and values of the society in which the story was created.
Analysis of Archetypes: Identifying the recurring characters, symbols, and settings within fairy tales or folktales, and analyzing them to uncover the deeper meanings.
Comparative Approach: Compare and contrast fairy tales and folktales from different cultures, including examining the differences and similarities between different versions of the same story.
Psychological Interpretation: Examining the psychological themes and interpretations in fairy tales and folktales, such as the hero's journey, the dark side of human nature, and the struggle to overcome obstacles.
Feminist and Socio-Political Interpretations: Investigating the feminist and socio-political aspects or implications of certain fairy tales and folktales, including exploring issues such as gender, race, class, and power.
Folklore Collection: Studying the history and practice of collecting folklore, along with different types of folklore collections including written texts, oral histories, and visual materials.
Oral Tradition: Examining the unique features of the oral tradition including voice, gesture, tone and rhythms.
Performance and Adaptation: Examining different performance and adaptation of fairy tales and folklore in different popular culture media like films, television series, comic book and game development.
Animal Tales: Stories in which animals have human-like qualities and abilities.
Fables: Short stories that teach a moral lesson, often featuring anthropomorphized animals as characters.
Fairy Tales: Stories that often involve magical creatures, enchanted lands, and heroines or heroes overcoming obstacles and adversity.
Legends: Stories that are set in the past and are often based on historical or mythical figures.
Myths: Stories that explain the origins of the world, the gods and goddesses, and the nature of the universe.
Tall Tales: Stories that are exaggerated or full of hyperbole, often featuring outlandish or impossible events.
Urban Legends: Modern-day folklore stories that are often rooted in contemporary fears and anxieties.
Trickster Tales: Stories that feature a mischievous, cunning protagonist who uses their wits to outsmart opponents or solve problems.
Epic Tales: Long, complex stories that typically involve a hero facing monumental challenges in order to achieve a great goal.
Ghost Stories: Stories that are meant to be spooky and scary, often featuring supernatural or paranormal elements.
- "This includes tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions."
- "They include material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group."
- "Folklore also includes customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites."
- "Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact or traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next."
- "Folklore is not something one can typically gain from a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts."
- "Instead, these traditions are passed along informally from one individual to another, either through verbal instruction or demonstration."
- "The academic study of folklore is called folklore studies or folkloristics."
- "It can be explored at the undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. levels."
- "Tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions."
- "Traditional building styles common to the group."
- "Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites."
- "Folklore is the whole of oral traditions shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture."
- "Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next."
- "It can be explored at the undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. levels."
- "Folklore is not something one can typically gain from a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts."
- "These traditions are passed along informally from one individual to another, either through verbal instruction or demonstration."
- "The academic study of folklore is called folklore studies or folkloristics."
- "Proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions."
- "Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact or traditional cultural expression."