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- noun Plural form of
folktale .
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Examples
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‘Little people’ also abound in folktales, as well as fierce, frightening characters and invisible nuisances.
Selections 2010
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‘Little people’ also abound in folktales, as well as fierce, frightening characters and invisible nuisances.
Reviews 2010
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‘Little people’ also abound in folktales, as well as fierce, frightening characters and invisible nuisances.
Books 2010
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The backward elimination argument underlying the surprise test paradox can be discerned in German folktales dating back to 1756 (Sorensen 2003a, 267).
Epistemic Paradoxes Sorensen, Roy 2006
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This collection of seven Latin American folktales features side-by-side English and Spanish text and descriptions of the origins and significance of each tale.
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Also at the library, fiesta dancing by Tierra Blanca Arts Center will get into full step from 6 to 6: 30 p.m., storytellers from the Flights of Fancy Story Theatre offer Hispanic and Latin American folktales in English and Spanish at 6: 30 and 7: 30 p.m., and Aztec stories will be performed by Michael Heralda at 8: 30 p.m.
unknown title 2009
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Also at the library, fiesta dancing by Tierra Blanca Arts Center will get into full step from 6 to 6: 30 p.m., storytellers from the Flights of Fancy Story Theatre offer Hispanic and Latin American folktales in English and Spanish at 6: 30 and 7: 30 p.m., and Aztec stories will be performed by Michael Heralda at 8: 30 p.m.
unknown title 2009
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An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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An affiliated Germanic word passed into French, which reshaped it into the noun hutte, from which English has a word evoking folktales and their forbidding forest settings replete with magical transformations: hut.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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One could probably also include all those elements of fantastic within so-called mainstream literature, and possibly some other things, such as folktales, fairy tales, etc.
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