Entertainment / Literature / Folktale: Folktales are stories passed along from one generation to the next by word-of-mouth rather than by a written text. See further discussion under folklore.
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Entertainment / Literature / Ballad: In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called ballads. In more exact literary terminology, a ballad is a narrative poem consisting of quatr MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Kaidan: Traditional Japanese ghost stories, especially folktales from the Edo period. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Nostos: The theme or motif of the homecoming--a return to one's family, community, or geographic origins after a long time away. Traditionally, this Greek designation refers specifically to Odysseus's return MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Folklore: Sayings, verbal compositions, stories, and social rituals passed along by word of mouth rather than written down in a text. Folklore includes superstitions, modern 'urban legends', proverbs, riddles, MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Mythology: A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature, that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally true by t MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Fairy Tale: In common parlance, a tale about elves, dragons, hobgoblins, sprites, and other fantastic magical beings set vaguely in the distant past (once upon a time'), often in a pseudo-medieval world. Fairy ta MORE