folk tale
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But no: this has become a subgenre of its own, a kind of folk tale the news loves to tell.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2025
Sweet July’s first title, forthcoming in January, will be Roselle Lim’s Chinese folk tale “Celestial Banquet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
The lavish folk tale draws from the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the 1940 cartoon film "Pinocchio," about a puppet wishing to become a real boy.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
“There’s always been this folk tale that there was a Roman temple underneath the cathedral,” said Mathew Morris, excavation director for the University of Leicester’s Archaeological Services.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
I have founded him 'who sold tillage, and house, and goods,' upon something in 'The Red Pony,' a folk tale in Mr. Larminie's 'West Irish Folk Tales.'
From The Wind Among the Reeds by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
