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
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
Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale won this year’s Humanitas prize for family feature film for writing “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” a reworking of the classic folk tale about a toy that comes to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Noseda instead led his Washington players into a gauzy, gossamer-spun dreamland of a Russian folk tale.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
