folktale
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One of A24’s earliest horror hits, “The Witch” — a spare yet dreadful and beautifully shot folktale — did considerable work synonymizing the company with prestige horror.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
Lee, in his director’s notes, says he intended to weave “a modern folktale of the forgotten.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023
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
Crag’s story sounded like a folktale at the time, but now it seemed entirely possible.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing folktale
Literary Genres - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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