- a variation of folk tale.
folktale
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The conceit sounds simple today: Kids are given a small plastic key, for which they insert in a box near an installation and then are regaled with music and a short nursery rhyme or folktale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
A folktale “is fluid and changing, able to adapt to whatever setting it finds itself in … the folktale survives. Assimilates. And with it — so survives the memory.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Riew’s musical draws on the Korean folktale “The Blind Man’s Daughter,” about a young woman who tries to restore her blind father’s sight but ends up in the faraway Dragon Kingdom.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
It also carries the aura of a folktale, one in which charity is rewarded with a life spared.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2021
He told a particularly gruesome story about the silverback gorillas when they were called up next, then shared a folktale about impundulus when a young male beastkeeper came forward with one perched on his arm.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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