What is a folk tale?

Answer 1

Something that was believed to have happened, but since was lost in translation, thus the suffix "tale". An old story told by the commoners to friends and families or anybody who would listen, and handed down through the years. Some times the story is embellished or exaggerated to make it more astonishing, or unbelievable. Sometimes somebody will even put it to music. Folk songs!Folk tails also tell lessons that people have learn through out the story like antsy and turtle.

Answer 2

A folk tale is a traditional story that has been passed down orally from generation to generation within a community. These stories often feature common motifs and themes, and they serve to entertain, educate, and reflect the values and beliefs of a particular culture. Folk tales can include Fairy Tales, myths, legends, and fables.

Answer 3

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. The word 'folklore' was first used by the English antiquarian William Thoms in a letter published in the London journal The Athenaeum in 1846.[1] In usage, there is a continuum between folklore and mythology. Stith Thompson made a major attempt to index the motifs of both folklore and mythology, providing an outline into which new motifs can be placed, and scholars can keep track of all older motifs.

Folklore can be divided into four areas of study: artifact (such as voodoo dolls), describable and transmissible entity (oral tradition), culture, and behavior (rituals). These areas do not stand alone, however, as often a particular item or element may fit into more than one of these areas.[2]

Answer 4

animal folklore are tales that provied a moral but the animal would never do so in reality.