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Title World folklore for storytellers : tales of wonder, wisdom, fools, and heroes / Josepha Sherman.

Publication Info. Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, [2009]
©2009
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1450867~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  398.09 WOR    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 368 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-368) and index.
Contents Wonder tales. Beauty and the beast ; Cinderella and Cinderlad ; The boy who knew no fear ; Dragon-slayers and monster-slayers ; The fairy's midwife ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Sleeping Beauty ; Snow White ; Transformation folktales ; Undersea kingdoms: adventures in the lands under the waves -- Hero tales. Folklore heroes ; Legendary heroes ; Tall tale heroes ; Heroic outlaws and bold antiheroes -- Tales kindness repaid and hope and redemption. Folktales of kindness repaid ; Tales of hope and redemption -- Tales of fools and wise people. Tales of fools ; Tales of wise people.
Summary Folklore goes back as far as human history. It is the collected lore of the folk, of people everywhere. This book narrows the subject to concentrate only on folktales, the stories of the people.
Subject Folklore -- Classification.
Folk literature -- History and criticism.
Storytelling.
Oral tradition.
Added Author Sherman, Josepha.
ISBN 9780765681744 (hc : alk. paper)
0765681749 (hc : alk. paper)
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