Know any folk tales?

[Bertha Venation]

I am not exactly sure what a folk tale is, but I'm fairly certain it's not a fairy tale.

Do you know any? If so, do tell! Thanks!

(Please keep it SFW. Thanks.)

[HopeHoops]

1. I'd put "The Giving Tree" in that category.

[Bertha Venation]

2. Thanks, Hope.

[HopeHoops]

8. That's one of my favorite stories. My wife made flannel board pieces for it.

[frogmarch]

3. Boo Hag

is one I’d never heard of. http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/05/boo_hag.html

If you look in the left sidebar you’ll see links to various categories – Fables, Folktales, Myths & Legends and so on.

Thanks for this thread. I hope you receive a lot of replies. I like folktales.

[Bertha Venation]

4. Thanks for the link!

But, ew, that Boo Hag was disgusting. :shudder:

[Baitball Blogger]

5. My mother's folktale. The only one that is native to her country.

A cockroach falls in love with a Rat named Perez who falls in a cauldron of boiling water.

The good thing about the country is that it doesn't immerse itself in tragedies the way the Russians do.

[d_r]

6. Paul Bunyon, Johnnie Appleseed

Pecos Bill, John Henry

[Kali]

7. La Llorona

various versions, usually associated with water/rivers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona

the song is beautiful (doing dial-up today so hope these are what I think they are)

Joan Baez

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Lila Downs

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I used to know a bunch -- for a while my college major was Early Childhood Education...

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... and I took both an undergrad and a postgrad Children's Literature course.
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For one of them I WROTE a folktale poem about a little boy who ate too much
ice cream and went to bed with a tummyache and had a quasi-nightmare about
ice cream animals (including a vanilla gorilla and a Rocky Road squirrel).
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I misplace it and can't remember a single other thing about it.
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[annabanana]

10. Stone Soup!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup

One of my favorites.

[Rowdyboy]

12. Stone soup has got yo be the classic! I heard it first in second grade....

Or was it second in first grade? It was a lonnnnng time ago....

[frogmarch]

11. Urashima Taro

is a fisherman in a Japanese folktale who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to the palace of the Dragon God, under the sea. He stays there for three days and, upon his return to his village, finds himself 300 years in the future.

Here is a beautiful video telling the story in music and unusual animation.

The story of Urashima Taro can be read online at various websites. It was a favorite of mine when I was a child living in Japan.

[LWolf]

13. Sure.

Brer rabbit tales.
Jack tales.
Kipling's "Just so" stories

And so many more.