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  2. Folklore - Wikipedia

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    Individual researchers identified folk groups that had previously been overlooked and ignored. One notable example of this is found in an issue of the Journal of American Folklore, published in 1975, which is dedicated exclusively to articles on women's folklore, with approaches that had not come from a man's perspective.

  3. Category:Films based on folklore - Wikipedia

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    Films based on folklore. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. A. Films based on African myths and legends (1 C, 4 P)

  4. List of children's books made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of works of children's literature that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film.

  5. No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.

  6. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  7. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Wikipedia

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    Based on the folktale, it stars N T Rama Rao in the title role and Jayalalitha as Marjiana. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Marjina Abdulla is a 1973 Indian Bengali-language musical film adaptation by Dinen Gupta, starring Santosh Dutta as Ali Baba, Mithu Mukherjee as Marjina, Rabi Ghosh as Abdulla (Marjina's brotherly figure) and Utpal Dutt as the chieftain of ...

  8. The holiday romp is notable for its many mythical villains, which draw inspiration from real folktales. In addition to the Icelandic ogress Grýla, the half-goat/half-demon Krampus (Kristofer ...

  9. Jack and the Beanstalk - Wikipedia

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    The magic beans play a central role in that movie, culminating in the scene, in which its titular character, Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Alexander Dumpty ride a magic beanstalk to find the giant's castle. Warner Bros. Animation's direct-to-DVD film Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure is based on the fairy tale. [25]