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 Greatest of These
Charlie Moore, a milk pail in one hand, a lantern in the other, closed the door behind him with a bang, set the pail on the table.
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

The Sparrows' Holiday
We will invite our country cousins to spend Christmas with us...
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

Christmas Day
Mrs. Howard, the mother of two of the boys and aunt to the third little fellow, was a widow and very poor.
Festival > Christmas
England > United Kingdom
 

The Pilanthropist's Christmas
The old gentleman tapped impatiently the letter he held in his hand.
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

The Fir Tree
Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some even smaller and younger than the fir-tree who enjoyed neither rest nor peace with longing to leave its forest home...
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats
There were twenty-six flat children, and none of them had ever been flat children until that year.
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

The Old House
The little boy one day heard his parents say, “The old man opposite is very well off, but is terribly lonely.”
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

A Christmas Fairy
Christmas time, all the boys at Miss Ware's school were talking about going home for the holidays.
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

Christmas in the Barn
Johnny was standing at the window, looking at the soft, white snow which covered the ground half a foot deep.
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

Old Father Christmas
The custom of Christmas-trees came from Germany. I can remember when they were first introduced into England, and what wonderful things we thought them.
Festival > Christmas
England > United Kingdom