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A German folk tale, Hansel and Gretel; illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909 Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1]
The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906. Cordwood Pete is said to be the younger brother of legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
American mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to America's most legendary stories and folktale, dating back to the late 1700s when the first colonists settled.
Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as Asbjørnsen and Moe , after the collectors.
'Episke love i folkedigtningen', Danske Studier, 5 (1908): 69–89. ‘Epische Gesetze der Volksdichtung’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur, 51 (1909), 1–12, translated into English by Jeanne P. Steager as ‘Epic Laws of Folk Narrative’, in The Study of Folklore, ed. by Alan Dundes (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965), pp. 129–41, OCLC 523555.
The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881.. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, [1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [2]
Angela Carter first did this in 1979 with The Bloody Chamber, a powerfully savage collection that morphs delicate Beauty into a beastly tigress. Rather than merely mocking the conventions upheld by sedate, waif-like princesses, she kept the appealing structures of popular fairy tales in place, filling them in with uncensored
Juho Nätti (1890–1964), known as Nätti-Jussi, was a Finnish lumberjack known for telling tall tales; his stories have also circulated as folk tales and been collected in books. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (16th century) by the French writer François Rabelais told the tale of two giants; father and son.