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

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

‘The Firebird Suite’ Music director Eckart Preu leads the Long Beach Symphony in the Stravinsky favorite inspired by a Russian folktale.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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

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