Taazyeh is a ritual dramatic art that recounts religious events, historical and mythical stories and folk tales.

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The Moken possess many fables and folk tales which help them make use of the natural world.

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That would be one way to encapsulate this little story about how genes and folk tales move across human groupings.

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Zipes, a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, has written sixty books on or of folk tales: critical studies, collections, translations.

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Men swore on their mustaches in sayings and folk tales, used them as collateral for loans and guarantees for promises, and sometimes even shaved their opponents' lips as a punishment.

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One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.

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What are some little known facts about popular fairy tales and folk stories?

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The Mongolian Tuuli is an oral tradition comprising heroic epics that run from hundreds to thousands of lines and combine benedictions, eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths and folk songs.

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Most literary tales were derived in some measure from folk sources, and, once they were published, they in turn influenced folk versions.

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