What folktales are oldest?

Answer 1

A folktale is a story that reflects the customs, beliefs, and lives of the people from where the story originates. Although many folktales are culturally specific and contain details about the land from which they come, most folktales tell the same kinds of stories. Folktales come from countries all over the world.

Folktales originated from Africa during the times of slavery

Answer 2

Folktales are oral tradition with no specific author or origin. It stands to reason that they originated when humans began to gather in groups. Storytellers were the historians of the tribe, so anything important that happened would have been preserved as a story.

Answer 3

topically a simple tail told made out of whole cloth. they start small. a short story told by someone perhaps to their kids or around a fire and the people around like it so it was retold and elaborated.

Answer 4

Folk means people. Folktales came from the people of a family, of a tribe, or of a village, and they were passed on to the younger generations as well as to travelers, who passed them in turn to their own family, tribe or village.

There is no one author of folktales and no single country of origin. Even a tale that's passed down for generations undergoes changes. Every teller tells a tale in their own way.

Answer 5

The epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest piece of literature ever found. Clay tablets dating back to 3000 BC.

Answer 6

North America