Elephants ate the fruits, and other beasts halted under the shade of the trees to rest. Piglets, pups and kittens played with each other in the bright sunshine during the day. Bees and butterflies ...
Passed down orally through generations to teach children to listen to their elders, this story is believed to have originated in China and remains one of the most popular folktales in Korea. In fact, ...
So much so, that the work of Stefanović Karadžić, a Serbian linguist from the 1800s who helped standardize his people's language, wasn't published till 1974. His controversial approach to philology?
In an era when connecting the tidbits of an artist’s private life can seem more important than following a musical thread between songs, West of Roan's Queen of Eyes revives faith in the power of the ...
The Lorain Historical Society is hosting a special book signing event for “Judi’s Folktales: Magical Stories and Fables” scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Carnegie ...
In Laos, young members of ethnic minority groups preserve folk tales as picture books and learn essential skills as they go. The project, led by Yokoyama Taizo, gives them control over their future.
Following a couple who adopts a half-ram newborn (well, steals her from her mother), Lamb’s storyline is reminiscent of traditional folktales. Maria (Noomi Rapace) and her husband Ingvar (Hilmir ...
The last two of these — the fiction collection “Fresh Scent of Pine Wood” and a compendium of translated folklore “Tales of the Golden Corpse: Tibetan Folk Tales” — finally hit stores this May, on the ...
Writing original songs that quilt together stories from many different origin points, Schermer and Showalter seek the commonalities among legends, myths and folktales from diverse spots on the ...