folktale in the PONS Dictionary

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In the folktale, the lake was the meeting site for the two lovers.
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It is based on the same folktale as the 2009 movie of the same name, but has a different story.
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Boas strove to prove this theory, and his efforts produced a method for breaking a folktale into parts and then analyzing these parts.
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Myth, legend, and folktale are only a few of the categories of traditional stories.
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He had multiple wives and mistresses, and according to folktale he had 1301 children.
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In folktales, the local speech style is particularly necessary.
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Much of the art at the time in history was used to tell common folktales that also had a religious theme.
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Most such legends, however, are regarded as folktales rather than actual events.
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In song, folktale, and union rhetoric the company store was often cast as a villain, a collector of souls through perpetual debt peonage.
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Additionally, the protagonist takes her name from the folktale.
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