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  2. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Folklore - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. American mythology - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Epic Laws of Folk Narrative - Wikipedia

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    '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.

  7. 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

  8. Britannica's Tales Around the World - Wikipedia

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    The series opens up in a computer-generated landscape, containing a floating castle and the planet Earth in the background. Pat Morita would explain the significance of each of the three stories and then the camera zooms to a country on Earth where the fairy tale was traditionally told.

  9. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling has come to have a prominent role in recruiting. The modern recruiting industry started in the 1940s as employers competed for available labor during World War II . Prior to that, employers usually placed newspaper ads telling a story about the kind of person they wanted, including their character and, in many cases, their ethnicity.