Folktales

Folktales is a general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to basic and complex societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are certainly similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative ways have been successful in showing these relationships. Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.

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The Christmas Masquerade
On Christmas Eve the Mayor's stately mansion presented a beautiful appearance. There were rows of different coloured wax candles burning in every window.
Festival > Christmas
Boston > USA
 

Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six (1776)
Children, have any of you ever thought of what little people like you were doing in this country more than a hundred years ago.
Festival > Christmas
Boston > USA
 

A Christmas Matinee
It was the day before Christmas in the year 1899. Snow was falling heavily in the streets of Boston, but the crowd of shoppers seemed undiminished.
Festival > Christmas
Boston > USA
 

Old woman who became a Woodpecker
May see her in the woods, where she lives in trees boring, boring, boring for her food...
Festival > Christmas
Boston > USA