They recorded the folk tales they heard with minimal edits.
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Their folk tales warn children to beware of long-haired strangers.
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The program this weekend includes folk tales from Japan and Britain.
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Skeletons and skulls regularly appear in folk tales as ghostly, comical characters.
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Around the hearth, old Rwandan folk tales dispel the gloom of exile.
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Unlike nearly all other folk tales, however, Slendy has a definite origin point.
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They have the nightmarish, inevitable illogical logic of folk tales or urban legends.
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Elsewhere, she's remixed Russian folk tales and turned Snow White into a Western.
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And indeed, that is what ballads are: musical folk tales, handed down over generations.
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Known as lianhuanhua, they draw on history, folk tales, popular culture, and martial arts.
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One day, we were sharing folk tales, and I told them a few stories.
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Her work, she said, references folk tales about seductive women being turned into flowers.
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I read numerous folk tales and children's books printed by Moscow publishers — Raduga and Progress.
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The couples in the folk tales were either childless, or aging with beautiful unmarried daughters.
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"Maria brought an impressive unique knowledge of the history of folk tales," Mr. Gates said.
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"Circle Round" — Folk tales from around the world, told with the help of celebrity readers.
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But perhaps the most stirring essay in "Daemon Voices" is the foreword Pullman wrote for a new edition of "Folk Tales of Britain," edited by Katharine M. Briggs, who in 1970 assembled what Pullman describes as "the most authoritative" collection of the nation's folk tales.
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The museum commissioned 16 artists from across the country to draw inspiration from Jewish folk tales.
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Graça da Silva added that many of the early folk tales included animals in the stories.
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Her sculptures are like folk tales — recognizable, timeless and full of lessons we've yet to learn.
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BROADLY: A lot of your work draws from language-based traditions like poetry and folk tales.
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And a witch, even in Colonial folk tales that demonized such a figure, stands outside of that.
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Folk tales give us "ancestral wisdom," they teach children lessons about compassion, forgiveness and respect, said Ms. Tatar.
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He recites eerie folk tales and oversees an art competition in which the boys must reconstruct their mother.
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Tristan is the trustee of Eddie's journal, in which Eddie collected the folk tales told by Tristan's grandmother.
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Periodically, she inserts retellings of Italian folk tales borrowed from, among other sources, "The Decameron" and Italo Calvino.
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He also wrote books for children, many of them based on Arab folk tales or legendary Arab heroes.
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Schwartz's series, which began publishing in 1981, contained stories largely rooted in folk tales and urban legends — effectively timeless.
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In the late 19th century and early 20th century, African-Americans debated whether these folk tales were worth preserving.
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From a young age, Morrison's parents shared the vibrant tradition of Black American folk tales and singing with her.
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Some sections read like folk tales or adventure novels, while those set in Virginia serve up reheated plantation melodrama.
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Anderson-Elysee: It's based off of the stories of Anansi the Spider from West-African and Caribbean folk tales.
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"This record is comprised of both true stories from my own personal life and fictional folk tales," Wall told Noisey.
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To the Sherpas of Nepal, the Yeti signals danger, said Shiva Dhakal, author of Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti.
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By then she was steeped in myth and fantasy, starting with folk tales learned from her Irish mother and nanny.
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These photographs and videos feature a cast of mythical characters based on family stories and folk tales from the region.
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Perhaps it is the extreme appearance of this adaptation that inspires the myriad folk tales surrounding these completely benign creatures.
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One section of the exhibition is dedicated to adaptations of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of Arabic folk tales.
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Here, Hanzo fights a paper-spewing chicken, a figure based on the basan, a fire-breathing creature from Japanese folk tales.
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" Several factors inform the imagery that Varrone chooses, including: "folk tales, mythology, the occult, current fashion trends, personal relationships, the season.
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With the rise of Christianity, Satan started to prowl folk tales and epic poems, luring us off the path to salvation.
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Folk Art The poems in "Song" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, who died last October, seem to spring from cracked folk tales.
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She referenced "Women Who Run With the Wolves," a 1992 book of folk tales about gender that was her red pill.
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Their style skips gleefully among a dozen genres, "visionary poems" to "futuristic films", "folk tales" to "gossip columns" (all namechecked by Jósef).
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Confucian gastronomy was included in China's list of cultural treasures in 2011 (joining Chinese yo-yos, some folk tales and roast duck).
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I like to look into the past to understand us today: religions, myth, folk tales, fairy tales, that's what rings my bell.
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She used to drive from our white suburb to the black children's bookstore three towns over for African and Caribbean folk tales.
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It is also the stuff of most folk tales, which surely isn't a coincidence — little boys and girls are lost, tortured, sacrificed.
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I'm sustained by the folk tales of the Somali heroine Arawelo and by new narratives being written by and about Somali women.
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Theirs is a lens through which people have long accessed esoteric secrets within diverse sources, from folk tales and parables to historical passages.
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This is consistent with old folk tales about Emperor Yu taming the river not through one dramatic action, but by decades of dredging.
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"He started it by denigrating people, and started reinforcing old folk tales about people's heritage," Chief Perry, who also goes by Maqua, said.
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Five Tribes is a game that takes place during the time of Arabian Nights, the collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales.
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This story is inspired by "The Legends of Tono" a collection of 119 Japanese folk tales published by Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) in 1910.
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His mother, Mariquita MacManus Mullan, was a poet and a daughter of Seumas MacManus, an author famed for his interpretation of Irish folk tales.
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Mexican ex-votos, book illustrations and folk tales are possible sources, but whatever her precedents, Ms. Lundqvist grinds them finely and mixes them well.
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As with Mulleady's giant in the central painting, allusions to folk tales serve to draw viewers into familiar terrain culled from childhood and stories.
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It embraces the simultaneous absurdity and grossness of old-world traditions (feeding a pubic hair to an unsuspecting victim comes from actual folk tales).
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And based on this footage, the acting actually adds a lot of spookiness and intensity to the creepy myths and folk tales that Mehnke recounts.
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Both books are works of fantasy and magical realism inspired by Chinese folklore; both are hero's journeys woven from a rich tapestry of folk tales.
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Arden turned her fascination with Russia's folk tales into a powerful novel about the power of faith, set during the depths of a medieval Russian winter.
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Its format is inspired by a game from Edo-period Japan called 100 Candles, in which samurai would tell each other increasingly scarier and creepier folk tales.
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Uncle REMUS was the storytelling character in Joel Chandler Harris's nineteenth century collection of folk tales about life on a plantation in the Civil War-era South.
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As it has gone on, the series has taken a somewhat darker turn, with the subjects eating snake and other animals that appear in local folk tales.
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His transformation into Santa Claus, the gift-giving icon of Christmas, began with traditions celebrating folk tales surrounding his life and miracles he was said to have performed.
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"My son was in no rush to come out into the world," Konovalova told RT, describing him as a "true Bogatyr" — a warrior figure from Russian folk tales.
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I cracked open a copy and encountered a fecund landscape: folk tales saturated with pollen, cobwebs, plums, petals, gristle, guts, "uncombed cats" and the bodies of human women.
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But the more and more I read these period sources, the more I realized, wow, the real accounts of witchcraft are the same thing as the folk tales.
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The lyrics, mostly in Mandarin but also English, are a collection of folk tales, myths and poems about gods and the spiritual realm, mostly by the poet Qu Yuan.
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At the same time, she roamed freely through the vast storehouse of Indian folk tales and epics and made a close study of the endless family dramas around her.
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Participants can make both spider web costumes of mesh tulle and individual insects from felt and pipe cleaners while listening to Rama Mandel, who will offer spider-filled folk tales.
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They accomplished this by compiling a German dictionary and collecting a trove of oral-tradition fairy and folk tales, gathered with the help of family friends, many of them young women.
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"The Annotated African American Folktales," which came out in November, contains more than 100 African and African-American folk tales as well as introductory essays and commentary to provide historical context.
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Today, check out our music critic Jon Pareles's profile of Ibibio Sound Machine, a band that rolls West African folk tales and 1980s pop into a sound that's futuristic and enchanting.
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He said that many of the stories, about settlers on the California coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, were derived from folk tales and legends he heard growing up.
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Local folk tales have also fueled talk about the paranormal within the forest, a subject that Mr. Paul eagerly latches onto as he and his companions begin their trek with a guide.
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Folk tales often deploy the stepmother as a token mascot of the dark maternal — a woman rebelling against traditional cultural scripts — but the particular history of the American stepmother is more complicated.
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The afternoons will include hearing African folk tales like "The Lion's Whisker" and, on select days, getting instruction in African dance and djembe drumming from the Asase Yaa School of the Arts.
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But the finest moments happen when he takes a break and, aided by Mr. Kuklis's sonic manipulations, conjures a dreamscape woven from folk tales and personal tales of camping by the Adriatic Sea.
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To create this series of five 10-minute plays — four will be the menu at each performance— the Flea asked up-and-coming writers to adapt intriguing folk tales from around the world.
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To create this series of five 10-minute plays — four will be the menu at each performance — the Flea asked up-and-coming writers to adapt intriguing folk tales from around the world.
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It was never a question, for instance, whether Disney Plus subscribers would have access to the 1946 Disney musical "Song of the South," in which a former slave, Uncle Remus, recounts African folk tales.
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In eastern Nepal, some Sherpa stories have described the Yeti as a dangerous being that attacks humans and looms large in their consciousness, wrote author Shiva Dhakal in Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti.
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But a new analysis published Wednesday in Cell Press Reviews suggests that whether you turn to folk tales or DNA, there's no easy way to tell when rabbits actually became part of our domesticated stable.
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" (Listen to the full MashReads Podcast discussion here.) (For outstanding books that we think deserve more praise and attention) The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo Aliza says: "They're beautiful folk tales with beautiful illustrations.
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When your opposition consists of giant corporations like Monsanto (the companies are not heard from in the film, by the way), you'd better bring more to the fight than a flute and some folk tales.
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Finally, in "Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa," the folk tales of the early 20th-century poet have been collected and translated by John Bester into a new edition, published by NYRB Classics.
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As befits a writer who ruminates about the nature of storytelling, there are 1,001 of these shards, each numbered, in a homage to "One Thousand and One Nights," the collection of Middle Eastern folk tales.
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"When your opposition consists of giant corporations like Monsanto (the companies are not heard from in the film, by the way), you'd better bring more to the fight than a flute and some folk tales."
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Much of The Witch's story is drawn from real, contemporaneous accounts and folk tales, written by very real Puritans who had moved to North America and saw the deep, dark woods as foreboding and forbidding.
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Since its inclusion in the 18th century, the story of Aladdin has been part of One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales best known for its clever, high stakes frame narrative.
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I can distinctly remember childhood moments with my dad, him teaching me to write Sinhalese characters or me sitting in the pooled bottom of his sarong — a makeshift swing — listening to folk tales his parents told him.
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Ermanno Olmi, a largely self-taught Italian director who wove family folk tales and unadorned accounts of farm life, class and Roman Catholicism into neorealist films that often starred amateur actors, died on Friday in Asiago, Italy.
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The bursts of rumination examine world history, skirt religion, scour philosophy, racism, anti-Semitism, femininity, war and folk tales, and are dotted with references to writers like Isak Dinesen and the deeply gifted African novelist Camara Laye.
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According to Walt Disney Studios production president Sean Bailey, the live-action remake will draw inspiration from the 1992 animated classic, and the folk tales from One Thousand and One Nights, on which the original film was based.
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm did not conceive of their original collection of folk tales — published in 1812 and gathered from sources ranging from older relatives and artsy friends to servants — as a book to be read by children.
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THE DRAGON SLAYER: FOLKTALES FROM LATIN AMERICA Written and illustrated by Jaime Hernandez Hernandez, one of the brothers behind the Love and Rockets comic strip, adapts and updates three Latin American folk tales into a graphic-novel format.
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The scenes often seem to illustrate, or at least conjure European, Japanese or Russian folk tales or children's stories, reminding us that once upon a time such narratives were often violent, intended to warn the young against bad behavior.
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Anna compares the Swallow Man to characters from her book of folk tales, and the Bible's King Solomon, and believes his story that they are on a quest to save an endangered species of bird that he can speak to.
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A yokai is just as likely to seek revenge on humans for their selfish actions—Japanese folk tales never end happily—as it is to show up, wreck your shit, and go on its merry way for no apparent reason.
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On DVD Long ago, in a distant galaxy, Hollywood's superhero movies were as modest as the comic books or radio shows that spawned them, using special effects that now feel homespun to conjure fantasies with the artless quality of folk tales.
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Now, at his alma mater (where he majored in history), 41 prints from those series — based on a collection of Italian folk tales, the Dictionary of Imaginary Places, "Had Gadya" (a Passover song) and "Moby-Dick" – will be brought together.
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Alvin Schwartz's litany of spooky stories for kids, full of fantastical monsters and new twists on old folk tales, has enjoyed a recent cult revival, as the series' original illustrations, by Stephen Gammell, have become widely recognized as horror masterpieces.
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Pinmei and the other heroes of Lin's books tell one another Chinese myths and folk tales, reimagined by Lin with intersecting imagery that weaves from tale to tale and from book to book like a spider's web shining with dew.
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Until 1870, the state allowed for residents to be counted only as white, black free or black slave, causing many Ramapoughs to be misclassified — a gap in genealogy that was filled with fallacies and folk tales by the surrounding white population.
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Sonam Dargyal, who grew up in Lancang before becoming a physician in Yushu county, south of Madoi, has spent years collecting Tibetan folk tales, from stories of why a rock formation resembles a Buddha's head to flying lamas with magical powers.
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Many of the songs on "Ibibio Sound Machine," the band's debut album, were based on Ibibio folk tales — including one about a talking fish — set to tracks that meshed African and American funk, with scrubbing guitars and a snappy horn section.
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In his 1907 Bohemia in London, the English writer Arthur Ransome describes one of these evenings and the artistic circle surrounding Smith, who went by the nickname "Gypsy," wore orange robes and regaled her guests with folk tales and performances.
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Abdurraqib: I'm hype about the nature of the folktale, or the folk ethos that shows up in the book, and I was wondering if you could call to life some of your favorite black mythologies and folk tales if you have any.
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I was inspired by classic fairy tales, like "The Gingerbread Man," but also there's a bunch of Asian folk tales that involve an old Asian widowed parent who finds a baby in a bamboo shoot or a baby in a peach or something.
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Folk tales — of sacred trees and animals, and of the "grandfather fire" of all creation — are interwoven with first-person accounts by an ensemble of three actors (Josué Maychi, Domingo Mijangos and Lupe de la Cruz) and a guitarist (Raymundo Pavón Lozano).
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One of the latest is Ms. Jonas's "Reanimation," a majestic yet intimate video-sculpture installation that mixes Arctic landscapes, folk tales, music (by Jason Moran), moving lights and hanging glass, along with views of the artist's hands, improvising art for the camera.
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We were traveling in bliss into the night air, and the urban jungle of London became an opportunity for a fluid ride into other dimensions, as childhood folk tales of miraculous wonder and dark perversion resurfaced and broke free from the recesses of our unconsciouses.
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There's a brief mention of the popular texting app Kakaotalk (unfortunately dropped from the subtitle), the hanbok that Mija wears as a part of serving as promotion for Mirando, and the persimmons that Okja is so fond of, which feature prominently in Korean folk tales.
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An arch and antic reworking of "The Princess and the Pea," one of the folk tales that Hans Christian Andersen made his own, "Mattress" has always been close kin to British pantomimes, those grab-bag holiday entertainments that fracture classic fairy tales for family audiences.
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Above: Pyramid Peril from Cuphead The Arabian Nights themselves are collected folk tales from across the Middle East, and it was perhaps the broadness of these tales that helped it become a key part in reducing the Middle East to its popular image today.
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My favorite freebie, Haw Par Villa, was opened in 1937 by the Aw brothers, the inventors of Tiger Balm; I never tire of the sometimes-gruesome dioramas and sculptures depicting Chinese folk tales through imagery that includes dismembered and impaled torsos or people drowning in bubbling pools of blood.
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But these friends do find tethers to their forgotten selves — Livy a black chess piece that she keeps in her pocket to remind her of Bob's existence in the world, and Bob a copy of "Fairy and Folk Tales From A to Z" that proves he too has a past that claims him.
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Charlie also uses allegory to tell the story of Singapore's failed merger with the Federation of Malaya in the early 1960s, with Mr Lee as Sang Kancil, a mouse-deer figure from Malaysian folk tales who lives by his wits; the British as Sir Lion, the Malayan prime minister as a kindly orang-utan.
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They are folk tales featuring talking animals and magic potions, but while they often come with an old-fashioned moral ("He who has children owns the world"), Yejide devises her own versions, adding new bits and pieces as she goes along, turning them into allegories that speak to her own life and that of her country.
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"In Ghostly Japan," Lafcadio Hearn A collection of magical, supernatural Japanese folk tales, first recommended to me by a well-traveled and well-read friend, this collection has a special significance as a four-line footnote from this book about a young boy training to be a samurai inspired the screenplay of my first feature film, "The Warrior."
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At some time during the writing, the novel's name changed to "The Handmaid's Tale," partly in honor of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," but partly also in reference to fairy tales and folk tales: The story told by the central character partakes — for later or remote listeners — of the unbelievable, the fantastic, as do the stories told by those who have survived earth-shattering events.
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High points of "Under Red Skies" for such readers include Kan's sensitively told stories about a grandmother influenced late in life by the folk tales about animal spirits she heard in her youth and of a grandfather who found solace in the 1990s in Falun Gong exercises and beliefs — until an official drive to eradicate the group forced him to cut his ties to the organization.
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