| 单词 | folktale |
| 例句 | Out of all the folktales, “The Ballad of John Henry” was my favorite. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z With gushing admiration, they photograph indigenous clothes, pay money to watch traditional dances, marvel over everything about Quichua celebrations, crafts, folktales, rituals, gods and goddesses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, these stories were just that, a collection of myths and folktales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Yes, in fact, we do. We have The Five Chinese Brothers—it’s a beautiful retelling of a famous Chinese folktale.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My heart ached to explore more such worlds, to live them in the imagination in much the same way as I lived the folktales of my mother and grandmother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If there wasn’t any moonlight to continue playing, my father gathered all the children inside our living room, lit a kerosene lamp, and told us folktales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He told a particularly gruesome story about the silverback gorillas when they were called up next, then shared a folktale about impundulus when a young male beastkeeper came forward with one perched on his arm. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Ekon Okojo, who was not an academic, knew better than to believe in myths and folktales—they lacked accreditation—but there was one thing he believed in with certainty. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Do you think, if you asked her, your grandmother would tell me some? I collect old folktales and stuff like that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He tried to hold on to her, but it was like trying to hold on to smoke or shadow, or—like Sathaz from the folktale—the reflection of the moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He had often told folktales—of foolish donkeys or brave tigers—when Tree-ear was a youngster. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As a rule, he didn’t trust myths and folktales; they lacked accreditation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “All this time, I thought they were just made up from myths and folktales, but...I was wrong.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The 22-year-old Korean American senior wrote “Shimcheong: A Folktale” — a full-length musical inspired by a Korean folktale with a decidedly Disney movie vibe — as her senior thesis. Harvard senior’s Disney-inspired Korean musical a hit online 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Directed by Yang Yuntao with an extensive creative team, the show is billed as “an inspiring retelling” of the ancient folktale about a humble and heroic peasant girl. Dance Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “I made a map of Icelandic folktales—you can still play it.” Here Comes Hilda 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In her Nobel Prize lecture, Toni Morrison recounted a folktale found across many cultures. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Looking at its rivals for our affections, one would have to say that both Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz are rather more culturally relevant than the folktale. Jack the Giant Slayer: big news or the height of nonsense? 2012-11-23T15:16:42Z The use of a medium like these simple stories, which are quite similar to folktales, is very effective. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - review 2013-01-28T09:00:00Z In a Greek folktale called “The Golden Crab,” the beautiful princess announces, “I am married to a crab, and I want no one else.” Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Another story, an Italian folktale called “King Pig,” is a bit more explicit. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z For French children, this is La Petite Souris, who appears in French folktales as early as the 17th century. Don’t tell the kids: The real history of the tooth fairy 2014-02-09T14:00:00Z “Devotion,” the story, is weak sauce, too: folktale claptrap about an orphan for whom ice skating “is pure feeling” and who has a tempestuous affair with a Svengali-like older man. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z La Llorona, or "the weeping woman," is based on a Latin American folktale in which a woman drowns her two sons, immediately regrets it, and now spends eternity looking for her lost children. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Ms. Weir, “Miss Fortune” is based on “Sfortuna,” a Sicilian folktale. ArtsBeat Blog: Santa Fe Opera to Present Three New Works 2011-08-10T20:15:01Z Riew’s musical draws on the Korean folktale “The Blind Man’s Daughter,” about a young woman who tries to restore her blind father’s sight but ends up in the faraway Dragon Kingdom. Harvard senior’s Disney-inspired Korean musical a hit online 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Akhtiorskaya’s genius is her ability to throw off observations that sound — if they weren’t so witty — like lines from a folktale. ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya Each episode in the season, titled “Grown Folks’ Fables,” features an audioplay based on a traditional folktale representing one strand of Chicago’s cultural diversity, reinterpreted by a homegrown writer. A Podcast Reaches Across Chicago’s Cultural Divides 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Last night I had the stinky displeasure of watching Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, a movie that has been hailed as the vanguard of a wave of Hollywood movies to appropriate European folktales. The five most pathetic female film characters of all time 2011-03-08T19:30:01Z While “The Witch” adopted the psychological folktales and terrors of a 1630s New England family, “The Lighthouse” is about a taciturn and weathered duo of 1890 seamen keeping the light on a remote Maine island. ‘The Lighthouse,’ with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The basis for his books was laid when as a child he listened to folktales. Mo Yan wins Nobel prize in literature 2012 2012-10-11T11:38:19Z In an English folktale called “The Small-Tooth Dog,” another father consigns his daughter to the ugly titular canine. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The result is a lurid revisionist pageant that reinterprets Mormon history in the style of an African folktale. "Book of Mormon" fresh, funny and sweet 2011-03-25T00:48:29Z There's more of a pop sensibility to Case's work now, but she retains a discreet countrypolitan twang in her voice, and a folktale teller's approach to lyrics. Neko Case powerful and giddy at the Paramount 2011-07-11T22:07:04Z On the street outside the library, Ms. Bordardottir read from “Skoffin,” a folktale from “Meeting With Monsters: An Illustrated Guide to the Beasts of Iceland.” In Iceland, a Literary Tour Explores Rich History 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Eliot was given the nickname Possum by Ezra Pound, who got it from “Uncle Remus,” Joel Chandler Harris’s compilation of plantation folktales, which was published in 1880. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In the early nineties, I created more than a hundred drawings for an Irish folktale called Finn McCoul, which was produced as a kind of primitive animated video. Peter de Sève’s “Dog Days of Summer” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In Gone to the Forest, it allows her to portray schematic character representatives and interactions; the tenor is dark, folktale reportage, with the slightly increased novelistic complications of gender, family and race. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z Hollywood movie studios, in their constant quest for remakes and modern spins on old stories, are about to unleash a new wave of film versions of ancient European folktales. Hollywood wants Red Riding Hood and Snow White to weave a box office spell 2011-03-06T00:14:18Z Soft-voiced, sinister, he told me an eerie Jewish folktale, and I tried to convey that this might not be the most horror-curious time of my life. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But dead girls have long populated folktales about sleeping beauties and myths of goddesses traversing the underworld. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z “Toyota Symphonies for Youth: The Firebird”: The second of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s concerts for children ages 5 to 11 is Igor Stravinsky’s musical adaptation of the Russian folktale. Sugar Plum Fairies, Scrooge and Lemony Snicket: L.A. holiday events for kids 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s based on a 10th-century Japanese folktale called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, who finds a tiny child in the bamboo who he raises with his wife. Christopher Eccleston: 'I don't watch TV – it's too hard to suspend disbelief' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z In Zhang Huan’s performance piece Family Tree, photos from which are on view in the show, terms and folktales used in fortune-telling based on a person’s physiognomy are inscribed on the artist’s face. "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-16T05:00:00Z We heard marmots cry on the way up, and at dusk we encountered our first ibex, the mountain goat that haunted the folktales of my childhood. A Grand Tour of Switzerland, Reluctant Son in Tow 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The harrowing sight of a gigantic cerulean Will Smith will haunt youngsters for years to come, and yet there’s little else memorable about Guy Ritchie’s take on the Arabian Nights folktale. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z There are two classic American folktales about coal. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z I started writing about Yorkshire and children and folktales and things like that, I just couldn't stop. Jane Gardam 2011-01-10T08:00:00Z It’s based on a Southern folktale, and it’s hilarious. Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z He is also enchanted by the oral history of Roma folktales and legends, and there's an evocative scene when he stumbles on a Roma settlement. On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:08Z Are you prepared to countenance the idea of an epic fantasy take on the heroic Jack of many a folktale – especially one that features a slew of this country's best-loved character actors? Jack the Giant Slayer: big news or the height of nonsense? 2012-11-23T15:16:42Z Set in 1630 New England, The Witch is partly the story of a family torn apart by mysterious evil, but like any folktale, its true function is to nose around deeper, murkier anxieties. Review: Old Fears Run Deep in The Witch 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy, announcing his win this lunchtime, said that "with hallucinatory realism", Mo Yan "merges folktales, history and the contemporary". Mo Yan wins Nobel prize in literature 2012 2012-10-11T11:38:19Z The look of the film, mixing computer and hand-drawn techniques, is both simplistic and lush, calling to mind old storybooks and the famed illuminated manuscript this Irish folktale came from. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z Furthermore, rabies can lead to a fear of light, altered sleep patterns and increased aggression, elements of how vampires are described in a variety of folktales. More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z These, however, are folktales with little evidence to back them up. The history of candy canes and why they taste so cool 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z In folktales, it is always the youngest sibling who carries the jinx, who bears the brunt of the family's flaws, who takes up the call to adventure and achieves redemption. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z Lee, in his director’s notes, says he intended to weave “a modern folktale of the forgotten.” 'The Accidental Getaway Driver' roams into emotional territory. I reported the real thing 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The world of spirits, ancestor worship, and folktales was no less prevalent than before. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Cheetahs have great symbolic value in India as they are part of many folktales. Second cheetah brought to India from Africa dies 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, research into high-voltage shockwaves seems to echo Japanese folktales about how lightning multiplies shiitake harvests. What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Traveling alone through the South in a Nash coupe in the ’20s, a gun on her hip, Hurston collected songs, folktales and life stories from Black communities seldom seen or heard. How a new film captured Zora Neale Hurston's radical authenticity 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Drawing from Korean folktale and Chung’s expertise as a Slavic literature professor, the narratives here shamble and ooze across a porous divide between highbrow absurdism and lowbrow jump scare. In a Korean author's U.S. debut, uncanny pleasures rear their ugly heads 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z They likely formed the historical basis for folktales about legendary female warriors such as Mulan that began circulating in Chinese society in the sixth century. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A folktale “is fluid and changing, able to adapt to whatever setting it finds itself in … the folktale survives. Assimilates. And with it — so survives the memory.” Review | ‘Thistlefoot’ ambitiously reimagines the legend of Baba Yaga 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z In folktales, Pele could destroy a city or a beach by hurling lava and ash. Trump pushed for nuclear testing on the moon during final months of presidency 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Folklorists scrutinize the manifestations of everyday life, looking at genres like proverbs, legends, folktales, music, material culture. How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Did any members of your group ever hear about such folktales? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Many genres include stories of different kinds—for example, folktales, short stories, accounts of events, and biographies. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z ‘The Firebird Suite’ Music director Eckart Preu leads the Long Beach Symphony in the Stravinsky favorite inspired by a Russian folktale. 12 best bets for your weekend: Hamburg Ballet, Shakespeare, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and more 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The following folktale originated in the Pacific Northwest. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the author says that archaeological discoveries in the Middle East “make it impossible for any serious person to continue to regard the Bible as a collection of folktales,” which many atheists assert. Evangelical author declares atheism dead, argues science refutes unbelief 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z While Sjón is a specialist in Icelandic folktales and mythical stories, nothing about the creatures originated in folklore. Exactly what is going on in 'Lamb'? The director and star unpack the wild Icelandic fable 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The bizarre falsehoods about the nature of the attacks and who was behind them have bubbled up and intensified over the years, while the creepy folktales have merely evolved. Your memory of 9/11 is probably wrong 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “Urban Legends of Southern California” Modern folktales are reenacted and enhanced with special effects in this immersive and interactive drive-through experience. Boo! 18 ways to celebrate Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos, IRL or virtually 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Some evenings, American Indians gathered around an elder family member to listen to folktales, or traditional stories. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z THE FACTS: A Facebook post sharing this claim spins a folktale that is both baseless and logistically implausible. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen last week 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The team describes its first game as “an accessible, coming-of-age folktale set against an ancient pastoral landscape.” The developers behind Alto’s Adventure have a new studio focused on ‘folk’ games 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It also carries the aura of a folktale, one in which charity is rewarded with a life spared. Your memory of 9/11 is probably wrong 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter In her collection The Bloody Chamber, Carter updated folktales, bringing their “latent content” to the surface to expose their patriarchal assumptions and misogyny. Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The closest comparable decision to NBC’s call is Disney’s decision to disappear “Song of the South,” its 1946 adaptation of white journalist Joel Chandler Harris’s collection of the Uncle Remus folktales set in Reconstruction-era Georgia. Opinion | Pulling ‘30 Rock’s’ blackface episodes is worse than meaningless 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z There’s a style of storytelling in folktales and fables that I love — straightforward but peculiar at the same time. L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan on whether we're still ‘The Dominant Animal’ 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Many of his books bring to life folktales, legends, and spirituality - he often incorporated images of a white dove among the pages. ‘Strega Nona’ author Tomie dePaola is dead at age 85 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The new series “America: The Stories We Tell” considers the ways in which myths, folktales, operas and other stories shape our collective identity. L.A. Phil for 2020-21 shifts 'musical center of gravity' toward women, people of color 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps these wounds might even compel a young woman to retreat into folktales, to rewrite odes of the distant past. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In the 19th century, when the Brothers Grimm began their project of collecting and publishing folktales, they dismissed the conteuses as inauthentic, as not representative of the voices of the common volk. The first fairytales were feminist critiques of patriarchy. We need to revive their legacy | Melissa Ashley 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Yes, and it’s probably related to my admiration for folktales. L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan on whether we're still ‘The Dominant Animal’ 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z His first film, the 2015 horror hit “The Witch,” wasn’t just set in 1630 but grew out of the real folktales and period-authentic nightmares of a family in puritanical New England. Pattinson and Dafoe on the oddities of ‘The Lighthouse’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The book’s opening chapter is at once familiarly “realistic” and heavy with the ironic fatalism of the folktale. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z His treatment of the folktale as literature—innovative, even subversive at the time—puts him in company with Yeats, Stevenson, Poe. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The stories, like the myths and folktales they invoked, transcended the specifics of time, location, and history. Téa Obreht Reimagines the Western 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In Irish folktales, banshees are often heard keening or lamenting the dead by wailing and shrieking. Some of Overwatch’s best skins are steeped in folklore and mythology 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z They called themselves “Luddites”, a whimsical reference to a folktale about a young cropper who, when beaten by his master, retaliated by destroying his frame. Bringing big tech to heel: how do we take back control of the internet? 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Salahi came to think of his interrogators as acting out a Mauritanian folktale in which a blind man is given the gift of a single, fleeting glimpse of the world. Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z He wrote fourteen books on all manner of Japanese subjects but was especially infatuated with the customs and culture preserved in Japanese folktales—particularly the ghost-story genre known as kaidan. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The asteroid, named Ryugu after an undersea palace in a Japanese folktale, is currently about 180 million miles from Earth. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully 'bombs' asteroid 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The coolest thing about Moira’s Banshee skin is that you need to be intimately familiar with Irish folktales for it to bear its maximum gravitas. Some of Overwatch’s best skins are steeped in folklore and mythology 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Last September, Hayabusa 2 deployed two robots on the surface of Ryugu – named after an undersea palace in a Japanese folktale – that sent back dramatic video and still images. Japanese spacecraft 'bombs' asteroid in scientific mission 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z It is named Ryugu after an undersea palace in a Japanese folktale. Japanese spacecraft to attempt landing on distant asteroid 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z She recalls an image from a folktale that appears in the novel of holding on to your lover as he goes through a series of metamorphoses: a fairy, a dragon, a lion. Tessa Hadley: ‘Long marriages are interesting. You either hang on or you don't' 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Drawing on the tradition of Anansi stories, folktales that end with a disclaimer that nothing can be taken at face value, James suffuses the novel with doubt and misdirection. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z English politician and author Horace Walpole coined the term "serendipity" in 1754 in a letter to his friend Horace Mann, basing it on a Persian folktale, "The Three Princes of Serendip." The science of serendipity 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z In Afghanistan, I met with missionaries who were translating ancient folktales into English. John Chau’s Death Roils the Missionary World 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Chosen by public vote, “Ryugu” is the name of a mythical underwater palace from a Japanese folktale, in which a young fisherman is given a box that, once opened, transforms him into an old man. At Asteroid Ryugu, Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Preps for Exploration 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Inspired by her Eatonville roots, she was instinctively compelled by the folklore, the idioms, customs, worksongs, spirituals, sermons, children’s games, folktales and practices of African American communities of the south. Why the extraordinary story of the last slave in America has finally come to light 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Books were everywhere—folktales and memoirs and novels, all covered in laminated plastic, as if in a library. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The title of her seventh album, Halo, refers to a spooky Argentine folktale, and the music is similarly unsettling, with Molina whispering her vocals over heady waves of percussion and snaking bass. The best albums of 2017: the full list 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z From simple equipment violations to elaborate fabrications that would make the WWE blush, baseball history is littered with folktales and conspiracy theories, and this new super-ball hypothesis is no different. A history of truly absurd (and possibly true) baseball conspiracy theories - Golf Digest 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Some of the film’s most fantastical elements — the manager of a fast food restaurant bargaining with rioters, police handcuffing people to streetlights — are stories she was told as urban folktales. Deniz Gamze Erguven explores the tremors of the L.A. riots with 'Kings,' starring Halle Berry 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The Hibakusha community maintain a living collective memory of the bomb, sharing their atomic folktales similarly to the Kataribe storytellers, as a cautionary modern mythology against nuclear war. Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “The African folktale is not your refuge from skepticism. It is not here to make things easy for you, to give you faith so you don’t have to think.” Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Rumi's masterpiece, the Mathnawi, is a fantastical, oceanic mishmash of folktales, philosophical speculation and lyric ebullience in which the worldly and the otherworldly, the secular and the sacred, blend constantly. Beyoncé and Jay-Z Named Their Child Rumi. Here's What to Know About the History Behind the Name 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I began performing these stories, at times using video footage of real events to ground them in reality, but preserving the structure and style of traditional folktales. Bringing African folktales to life - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The Hebrew origin story might seem like a folktale, of the sort he had looked down on when he was a young man. How St. Augustine Invented Sex 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Typing: People with and without Parkinson's were asked to listen to a folktale and transcribe it by typing. New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed, nuisances to be corrected, problems so severe that they were abandoned to the forest. The Work You Do, the Person You Are 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In the folktale, reluctant villagers contribute tidbits to a collective pot, and in the end everyone gets a meal. Au Revoir: Trump Exits the Paris Climate Accord 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It is perhaps fitting then, that my exploration of traditional East African folktales began here, leading me on an unexpected journey into storytelling and adapting contemporary novels. Bringing African folktales to life - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z After a Chinese folktale captured my imagination as an 8-year-old, I closed the book and announced to my parents that I wanted to learn Chinese. Opinion | Stop writing China off as an enemy. Millennials don’t. 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Agnon’s prose recalls the style and the archetypes of the Bible, the Talmud, medieval commentators, and Hasidic folktales. Israel’s Founding Novelist 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In twice-weekly cultural heritage classes, he tries to ensure that a generation raised in refugee camps will inherit the folktales, dances, and history of their ancestors. Can Archivists Save the World’s Newest Nation? Ursula absorbed these stories, together with the books she read: children’s classics, Norse myths, Irish folktales, the Iliad. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Back in Nairobi, I launched an online contest, inviting African writers to re-write traditional folktales but with a contemporary twist. Bringing African folktales to life - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z I’m not sure how to describe Brain&Brain’s Burly Men at Sea, though the studio calls it “a folktale adventure for PC and mobile.” 25 New Video Games We Can’t Wait to Play This Fall 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Propelled by imagination rather than might, “Kubo” is a quest of family and folktale through dazzling animated landscapes, Review: ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ strums stop-motion wonder 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z I wondered if perhaps the Mauritanian folktale—what is hidden is desired; to conceal certain parts is to keep them sensitive—had actually been about French. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z In fact, scientists didn’t confirm that Brazilian bearded capuchins naturally used stone tools in the wild until 2004, despite centuries’ worth of folktales and anecdotal reports. Oldest Non-Human Stone Tools Outside Africa Created by Monkeys It seemed that even in this small town, famed for its quaint antiquity, folktales were dying. Bringing African folktales to life - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z I sat out on the balcony, watching night fall and feeling as though I’d landed in a folktale about a traveller arriving in a household under some powerful enchantment. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z “A New England folktale” is how the opening titles describe writer-director Robert Eggers’ impressively rigorous feature debut. Review: In ‘The Witch,’ a haunting prequel to Salem 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z “I think the Mauritanian folktale is pretty sexist,” I reply. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z As in the traditional folktale, and as in the Christopher Marlowe play, Goethe’s Faust sells his soul to the Devil, Mephistopheles. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z When I heard this story, I couldn't help but think of the children's folktale "Stone Soup." 'Stone Soup,' Pre-K Edition 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The classic playthings date back to ancient times when they were to reenact educational stories like The Iliad and The Odyssey, Chinese and Japanese folktales, and Christian teachings. See Which Toys Were Just Inducted Into the National Toy Hall of Fame 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The original 1,001 stories were probably Indian folktales that later spread to Iran and were translated into Farsi. Salman Rushdie on his latest 'wonder tale': 'We now live in a very strange time' 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Many original Klansmen were raised by black elders who famously told their charges folktales and stories centered in the early African-American culture. Cultural appropriation in America can be audacious. Just look at the Ku Klux Klan | Michael W Twitty 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The girls from Arctic Bay spoke of a folktale that the Northern Lights were spirits that could be summoned by whistling. Blooming in a Barren Land 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It's not just a gateway to the well established greats of Russian literature, but to a rich gallery of sayings, aphorisms and folktales, which still play a prominent role in popular culture. Russian language barrier stumps UK 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z “The Tale of The Princess Kaguya” is based on a Japanese folktale about an aging woodcutter and his wife, who find a girl in a bamboo stalk glowing in the dark. Hand-drawn ‘Princess’ stands apart from other Oscar nominees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya" is based on a Japanese folktale about an aging woodcutter and his wife, who find a girl in a bamboo stalk glowing in the dark. Hand-drawn 'Princess' stands apart from other Oscar nominees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile in the Middle East, Christians - speaking and writing Arabic - were a familiar part of the scene in Muslim societies, often referred to in the literature and folktales of the region. The forgotten history of Christianity 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Uncle Remus - the fictional narrator of Joel Chandler Harris’ retellings of African-American folktales - got its name by way of Brer Fox, for two families of foxes that denned and raised kits in its roots. Name stories: Tum Tum, God’s Wonder, Shady Eden 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z This latter similarity is of particular note because so many of the Bantu folktales feature rabbits. ‘Mean Girls’ Is Not a Comedy. It’s Mythology. 2014-04-18T02:23:16Z More focused on “fantasy and fine art” than on “practical future applications,” according to Ju, this piece is inspired by a Japanese folktale of the same name. Students Combine Arts and Science While Exploring "Transhumanism" [Slide Show] 2014-02-21T23:15:00Z Before the symbol hiccup, a young girl in white dress soared into the air, lifted by a harness, and sang as islands representing different parts of Russia with folktale scenes drifted dreamlike across the stadium. Russian Winter Games kick off with a glitch, fairytale show 2014-02-07T18:54:53Z The app features a fantastic collection of folktales and poems–really good stories. Can An Ipad App Help Solve The Literacy Problem? 2013-08-01T11:24:00Z In the classic Scandinavian folktale “The Twelve Ducks,” also known as “The Twelve Brothers” in Grimms’ Fairy Tales, a wicked old Queen is jealous of her daughter-in-law’s beauty. A Grimm Tale of Reproductive Conflict 2012-09-04T16:15:00.267Z China Updates Ancient Guide to Filial Piety For 600 years, a set of folktales taught Chinese children how to respect their parents. China: Filial Piety 2.0 2012-08-16T08:45:00Z More focused on “fantasy and fine art” than on “practical future applications,” according to Ju, this piece is inspired by a Japanese folktale of the same name. Students Combine Arts and Science While Exploring "Transhumanism" [Slide Show] 2014-02-21T23:15:00Z That event, “Viva Viva la Befana!,” includes an art project and a musical retelling of the folktale of la Befana, an old woman who flies on a broom to deliver Epiphany treats to children. | Westchester: Naples Nativity Scene at Italian Cultural Center in Tuckahoe 2011-12-24T02:27:07Z Those who like to compare myths and folktales and ancient scriptures will find a rich field here. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z "The day of folktales is departing from the Azores," said the wise woman. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z Really, it’s more like a fable or a folktale. Sam Lipsyte: “Deniers.” 2011-04-25T04:00:00Z There is oftentimes a grain of truth in these folktales. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z It draws on deep-seated archetypes — paradise and the fall, the monster/tempter in the forest primeval, resurrection and redemption — that recall stories from folktales to the Bible to the Greeks. Preparing for Life After Lost 2010-05-13T23:00:00Z We have seen that in Grettis saga the priest Stein, as the unfaithful guardian of the rope which is to draw up the hero, seems to represent the faithless companions of the folktale. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn However, when I spent December 1920 and January 1921 in the Azores in connection with research work for the Hispanic Society, I found that there were not only pleasant folktales there but even real fairies. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z As in literature, National Revival art found its themes in the beauty of the countryside, the charm of old customs, traditional folktales, and the heroic deeds of brave men. Area Handbook for Bulgaria So, here's Binder and a neatly wrapped-up package of a folktale of the future. Shipwreck in the Sky Next came the two great brothers, whose names are ever to be held in honour wherever folklore is studied or folktales read, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series In this, the Sclavonic folktale differs radically from its Celtic neighbour. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers "Public schools came with the republic, and where books of printed stories enter folktales become confused and soon are lost." Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z In the absence of such data, and until an Australian Grimm has arisen to bring order into the present linguistic chaos, the evidence from folktales seems to promise most light on the question of migrations. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia Perhaps nearly one-tenth of the main incidents of European folktales can be traced to this source. Indian Fairy Tales The old folktale of how the "wooden horse," left on the shore by the Greeks, was recklessly dragged to the citadel by the Trojans satisfied the unquestioning Homer. Vergil A Biography Another old man, the oldest on the island, is fond of telling me anecdotes—not folktales—of things that have happened here in his lifetime. The Aran Islands This is, of course, a folktale, explaining the pebble-hills and illustrating the belief in Frode's power; but armies were mustered by such expedients of old. The Danish History, Books I-IX |
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