Sentences with phrase «of folktales»

Jamie Tehrani heard multiple versions of the folktale as a child and became fascinated by this question.

I'm shocked that we look to an ancient collection of folktales and stories to tell us how we should treat others and whom we should judge.

After the lessons, students can write their own contemporary version of a folktale and present it as a stopmotion or Claymation film.

Indebted to the long history of folktales in China, Ji is inspired by the tall tales and ghost stories that he has gathered in the Chinese countryside.

In my reading of the Bible as I said I always took Genesis as a kind of folktale.

I had always read the story of Genesis as sort of a folktale by a people trying to understand the world they live in and not as exact truth, sort of like folk stories of why zebras have stripes or where does the sun go at night.

The generalizing conventions of the folktale are never far away in the No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series, while Isabel Dalhousie's comedies of manners bristle with specificity: streets and shops and galleries in Edinburgh, names of living painters and poets and philosophers (not a few of them, we may assume, to be numbered among McCall Smith's acquaintances), all imparting a richly civilized texture against which the comedy can play out.

«This is an important innovation because despite centuries of scholarship there exist many unresolved questions about the... evolution for different folktale traditions,» says Robert Ross, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has studied the origins and transmission of folktales.

Statistical ties between a set of folktales and languages from parts of Europe and Asia have helped researchers date the origins of some stories to thousands of years ago.

Named for the Sufi philosopher and humorous storyteller of folktales popular in areas of Middle East, southern Europe and parts of Asia.

I look at the reuse of the Spanish Civil War (era, time, whatever) and the mystery of the folktale as an excuse to do another creature feature.

Help children understand the concept of a folktale.

Talk about what took place in each part of the folktale and let students draw a picture to show that.

teacher - selected library sources of folktales, fairy tales, and myths from Asian American cultures or printouts from the site noted in the lesson plan

While searching for these stories, we steered clear of folktales since they tended to be about people who lived long ago.

Part love story, part mystery, part horror, this is as much about the twisting hand of fate as it is about the mutability of folktales.

My only complaint was that I found myself impatient with the interspersed scattering of the folktales; I longed to return to the ongoing suspense of the narrative.

Then, we have stories from Patricia Glinton - Meicholas, Bahamian Author of An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas.

Just sit back a spell and let these humble words suffice as Paste's official opinion on this shaggy exploration of the power of folktales and storytelling: SGOOD!

Through carefully curated lines and color, Robson finds himself rewriting and combining familiar visual cues of folktale, human achievement, and recognized stories.

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.