folktale
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The subtitle of Robert Eggers’ intense and unnerving feature debut The Witch is A New-England Folktale, and once you’ve seen the movie, you’ll think even ye olde unnecessary hyphen is scary.
From Time • Feb. 16, 2016
The piece is modeled around the stringent formalism of Vladimir Propp, whose book Morphology of the Folktale isolated 31 plot elements, or “functions,” supposedly common to all Russian folklore.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2014
Vocabulary lists containing folktale
Literary Genres - Introductory
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Literary Genres - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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