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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Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age.
Festival > Christmas
Virginia > USA
 

The Christmas Carol of the Birds
One day in the year the simple peasants who live there make the birds very happy, so that they sing, of their own free-will.
Festival > Christmas
New Delhi > India
 

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 Cratchits' Christmas Dinner
Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where the people made a rough but brisk.
Festival > Christmas
New York > USA
 

The Pilanthropist's Christmas
The old gentleman tapped impatiently the letter he held in his hand.
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
 

Toinette and the Elves
It was Christmas Eve, or would be in half an hour, when the sun should be fairly set but it did not feel like Christmas.
Festival > Christmas
Iselin City > USA
 

Santa Claus's Letter
Jamie and Ted had already begun to write long letters to Santa Claus. But one thing was rather queer: both boys asked him for the same things.
Festival > Christmas
Dallas > 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 Ragged Christmas Feast
On Christmas day there is a great feast in Dublin. This, you know, is the chief city of Ireland. The feast is made for the children.
Festival > Christmas
Dublin > Ireland