folk-tale

A cast of characters emerged and needed somewhere more concrete to live than the folk-tale landscapes I was used to sketching out.

Anna Lawrence Pietroni - An interview with author 2010

Oddly, the same story appears in a Spanish folk-tale: a shepherd promised to give March a lamb if he would reduce the strength of his winds, and thereby safeguarding the flocks against harm.

Weatherwatch: March's borrowing days 2011

Kids learn and get in on the action with an interactive folk-tale performance, art workshop, and reading by Representative Yvette D.

Martin Luther King Jr. Events In New York New York Magazine 2011

It is significant that, in one of the few explanations that she offered of her interest in the popular forms, she said the following: "The so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale, of our particular niche in history" (Preface to The Best of Planet Stories 2-3).

Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

Kids learn and get in on the action with an interactive folk-tale performance, art workshop, and reading by Representative Yvette D.

Martin Luther King Jr. Events In New York New York Magazine 2011

The wolf, being a more conventional - if not conservative - fairy tale character, decided that he could not let Little Red Riding Hood frustrate traditional folk-tale forms in such an arbitrary manner.

Little Red Riding Hood David Hadley 2009

The wolf, being a more conventional - if not conservative - fairy tale character, decided that he could not let Little Red Riding Hood frustrate traditional folk-tale forms in such an arbitrary manner.

Archive 2009-04-01 David Hadley 2009

If Jack was a literary creation – rather than a genuine figure of folk-tale – whose tale was woven from earlier non-Jack giant-killings and traditions, this naturally raises some intriguing questions about the origins of both these stories of Welsh and Cornish giants and the actual concept of Jack as the hero who finally rids Britain of these creatures.

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

I'm trying to take into consideration the year it was published... and its "folk-tale" style, but I'm going to go all Lorax and speak for the trees.

Reissuing a Classic... or Not Editorial Anonymous 2009

You watch a film adapted from a traditional folk-tale in which the bad-guy demons/evil creatures/villains all have white skin.

Thought Experiment: fastfwd 2009