Folklore

Folklore

1. Cumulative Tales

2. Pour Quoi Tales

3. Beast Tales

4. Trickster Tales

5. Noodle Head/ Numbskull Tales

6. Realistic Tales

7. Fairy Tales

8. Tall Tales

   • An exaggeration to tell the life of a larger-than-life person

9. Fables

   • Brief stories to teach a moral lesson

10. Myths

    • Created to explain the world around the creators and their own existence

11. Epics, Ballads, Legends

    • Epics: lengthy tales of heroes
    • Legends: Stories rooted in history
    • Ballads: Poetic Stories

12. Religious Stories

    • Stories connect to religious belief or practice: Tale of La Bifana

13. 3 Elements

    • Originated Orally
    • has no known author
    • Almost always violates a natural law
      • Modern Fantasy
        • Toys or objects given life
        • Tiny Humans
        • Peculiar characters or situations
        • Imaginary worlds
        • Magical powers
        • Supernatural Tales
        • Time Warp Fantasies
        • High Fantasy
        • Science Fiction (w/o magic)
        • Has a known Author
        • Has events connected to Magic
        • Held to full good writing standards
        • 6 Basic Fantasy Motifs
          • magic
          • other worlds
          • good v. evil
          • heroism
          • special character types
          • fantastic objects

14. Often very simplistic in theme

15. Very little character development

16. Explores the human condition