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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to folk story, such as: custom, fable, legend, myth, mythology, and superstition.
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Unwitting marriage with an Eta woman has long been a common motif in fiction and folk story.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF JAPANJ.W. ROBERTSON SCOTTIt is indeed a tender and touching tale, based on a folk-story which Tennyson found current in Brittany as well as in England.
ALFRED TENNYSONANDREW LANGThe satire is of the earth, earthy, very near the folk-story from which it may have originated.
ESSAYS ON THE GREEK ROMANCESELIZABETH HAZELTON HAIGHTA reference to a folk-story of a saint who turned a pet mouse into a tiger.
MASHI AND OTHER STORIESRABINDRANATH TAGOREThis poem is written as a folk-story, in the style of the Byliny, and it in no way resembles a pastiche.
AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN LITERATUREMAURICE BARINGIn true folk-story fashion the narrative rambles on with details of the escape and recapture of the devil-armor "a hundred times."
LEGENDS OF THE CITY OF MEXICOTHOMAS A. JANVIERThe modern fanciful story is here placed next to the real folk story instead of after all the groups of folk products.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURECHARLES MADISON CURRYBut as it ever was and is a folk-story, independently of the great jester, I think it worthy of a place in this collection.
LEGENDS OF FLORENCECHARLES GODFREY LELANDNote: A legendary tale rather than a folk-story, with a fine moral.
THE CHINESE FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FOLK STORY
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