A folktale recorded by John O ' Donovan in 1835 relates how the Fomorian warrior Balor, to frustrate a prophecy that he would be killed by his own grandson, imprisons his only daughter Eithne in the tower of Tory Island, away from any contact with men.

The Town Musicians of Bremen () is a folktale recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

A well known folktale to feature this character was recorded in Selkirkshire and featured her along with two other spinsters, who in compliment to Habetrot's deformed lips feature a splayed foot and a flat thumb respectively.

A folktale told to John O ' Donovan by Shane O ' Dugan of Tory Island in 1835 recounts the birth of a grandson of Balor who grows up to kill his grandfather.

In a rare blurb, the famously reticent writer Thomas Pynchon praised Yves Gundron as “ lessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt — a story that moves with ease and certainty, deeply respecting the given world even as it shines with the integrity of dream ,” and John Freeman, writing for Time Out New York, called it “ An engrossing folktale that, in our technology-crazed era, ought to be required reading .” Yves Gundron was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2000.

* The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century Japanese folktale, tells of a mysterious Moon Princess growing up on Earth as the adopted daughter of a bamboo cutter and his wife, dazzling human Princes and the Emperor himself with her beauty, and finally going back to her people at " The Capital of the Moon " ( Tsuki-no-Miyako 月の都 ), leaving many broken hearts on Earth.

This series, densely interwoven with motifs from Russian folktale and legend, tells the story of the young tsar Ivan Khorlovskiy, heir to the throne of the city of Khorlov.

A Cherokee folktale tells of a dog who stole some cornmeal and was chased away.

A less-common belief was that the fairies were actually humans ; one folktale recounts how a woman had hidden some of her children from God, and then looked for them in vain, because they had become the hidden people, the fairies.

In the Legend of the Wooden Shoes, an old Dutch folktale, a kabouter teaches a Dutch man how to make piles and how to make wooden shoes.

A story may be considered true ( and therefore a mythos ) in one society, but considered fictional ( and therefore a folktale ) in another society.

At the University of Kristiania Gaston Paris also held a lecture about the two folktale collectors, Asbjørnsen and Moe, which he believed to be, besides the Grimm Brothers, the best re-tellers of the genre.

:" Most of the instrumental and interpretative function of the folktale have tended to be overlooked in the literature, which still usually concentrates upon origins, upon fragmentary beliefs enshrined in the tales, and upon the light which is cast by plots and treatments on the attitudes of the people among whom the story is told.

Therefore, Varinn was forced to sacrifice his own son to the gods as indicated in the verse: " I say the folktale / to the young men, which of the line of Ingold was repaid by a wife's sacrifice " ( the word " husl " can be interpreted both " sacrifice " and " baptism ").

During the same period, Helen Bannerman penned the now notorious Indian-themed tale of Little Black Sambo, which represented itself to be an Indian folktale.

The motifs of the hero who finds the princess about to be sacrificed to the dragon and saves her, the false hero who takes his place, and the final revelation of the true hero, are the identifying marks of the Aarne-Thompson folktale type 300, the Dragon-Slayer, and appear, with other elements before and after in type 303, the Two Brothers.

* In a Chinese folktale, Hsienpo and Yingt ’ ai are star-crossed lovers who must wait until the rainbow appears to be alone together.

Folk narratives can either be in prose: the myth, the alamat ( legend ), and the kuwentong bayan ( folktale ), or in verse, as in the case of the folk epic.

" If the Middle English Breton Lay has connections with Celtic folktale, the connections can be easily perceived in Launfal.

The tale type does not have to be accurate for every folktale.

A final folktale, Wag by Wall, was published posthumously by The Horn Book in 1944.

Sirenik Eskimo culture has been influenced by that of Chukchi ( witnessed also by folktale motifs ), also the language shows Chukchi language influences.

A Flowering Tree ( 2006 ): An opera in two acts, based on a folktale from the Kannada language of southern India as translated by A. K.

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Many 18th-century folklorists attempted to recover the " pure " folktale, uncontaminated by literary versions.

Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is chiefly remembered for the fantastic myth of his kidnapping by pirates and miraculous rescue by dolphins, a folktale motif.

The Triglav area is the setting of an old Slovene folktale concerning a hunter seeking a treasure guarded by an enchanted chamois buck named Zlatorog ( Goldhorn, after its golden horns ).

* The most significant of the folktale is The Eight Immortals Depart and Travel to the East ( 八仙出處東游記 bā xiān chū chù dōng yoú jì ) by Wu Yuantai ( 吳元泰 wú yuán taì ) in the Ming Dynasty.

The 1992 children's book Something from Nothing, written and illustrated by Phoebe Gilman, is an adaptation of a traditional Jewish folktale set in a fictional shtetl.

The story is similar to the German folktale " Peter Klaus " by Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal, which is a shorter story set in a German village.

" Bluebeard " ( French: La Barbe bleue ) is a French literary folktale written by Charles Perrault and published in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.

Modron appears in Welsh Triad 70, in which her children by Urien, Owain and Morfydd, are called the " Three Blessed Womb-Burdens of the Island of Britain ," and a later folktale preserved in Peniarth MS 147 records the story behind these conceptions more fully.

: I say the folktale / to the young men, which of the line of Ingold was repaid by a wife's sacrifice.

In a folktale collected for his book, Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, the nukekubi is misidentified as Rokurokubi, an error that also appears in the Fighting Fantasy book, Sword of the Samurai, and in Stephen Dedman's novel The Art of Arrow-Cutting.

The play is based on the German folktale Der Freischütz, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber.

Ben Stevenson, Artistic Director of Texas Ballet Theater, has choreographed many narrative ballets with lavish sets and costumes in recent years, including Cleopatra, Dracula, and The Snow Maiden, based on a Russian folktale, as well as his own versions of narrative story ballets.

Sir Launfal adds a number of folktale elements of its own to those inherited from Marie de France's Lanval, including those of a spendthrift knight, combat with a giant, a magical dwarf-servant and " the cyclical return of the mounted warrior's spirit to this world once a year.

A folktale called " Meeting Zhou Tong By Chance " states Zhou Tong was walking down the far side of a tall bridge when he noticed a large young man walking up in his direction while looking down at his own feet.

In the Swedish folktale Little Rosa and Long Leda, an elvish woman ( älvakvinna ) arrives in the end and saves the heroine, Little Rose, on condition that the king's cattle no longer graze on her hill.

Yet while oral fairy tales likely existed for thousands of years before the literary forms, there is no pure folktale, and each literary fairy tale draws on folk traditions, if only in parody.

Scholars drawing on studies of oral transmission and folklore have concluded that the non-Septuagint material “ is a folktale grafted onto the initial text of … 1 Samuel .”

The tale itself is a variation on a common folktale motif.

Questions of categorising legends, in hopes of compiling a content-based series of categories on the line of the Aarne-Thompson folktale index, provoked a search for a broader new synthesis.

The narrative content of legend is in realistic mode, rather than the wry irony of folktale ; Wilhelm Heiske remarked on the similarity of motifs in legend and folktale and concluded that, in spite of its realistic mode, legend is not more historical than folktale.

Korea, where pyonsa ( or byun-sa ) held a role and status similar to that of the Japanese benshi, in 1935 became the last country with a significant film industry to produce its first talking picture: Chunhyangjeon (/) is based on the seventeenth-century pansori folktale " Chunhyangga ", of which as many as fifteen film versions have been made through 2009.

The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions.

The story is based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber.

Its story and characters are loosely based on a well known Korean folktale of the same name.

Critically acclaimed movie based on a West African folktale ; the Japanese dub was written by Isao Takahata and released by Studio Ghibli.

In some informal and modern folktale version based on Pampangan Mythology his sister was Mayari a Zambal deity and their father was Bathala which is a Tagalog deity, this probably caused the misconception.

In Pampangan mythology he / she was a sibling of Suku, he / she was also associated to the moon based on that mythology, in some informal and modern folktale version based on the said myth his / her brother was Apolaki a Pangasinense deity and their father was Bathala which is a Tagalog deity, this probably caused the misconception.

Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog ( tanuki ), wearing waraji on its feet and standing, displayed in Buddhist temples in Japan | Morinji where the folktale of Bunbuku Chagama is, Tatebayashi, Gunma | Tatebayashi Gunma Prefecture

He points out that Thompson's focus on oral tradition sometimes neglects older versions of stories, even when written records exist, that the distribution of stories is uneven ( with Eastern and Southern European as well as many other regions ’ folktale types being underrepresented ), and that some included folktale types have dubious importance.