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folk tale

noun as in story that is passed down

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By the time Cooper first hears Britton’s story as a Harvard undergrad in the early 2010s, she writes, it has become almost a folk tale about how powerful institutions protect powerful men who do horrible things.

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A guide, using myths and folk tales, to help women reconnect with their instinctual nature.

The folk tale “Hansel and Gretel” originated in these years.

But it is clear that there might also be three distinct encounters on as many separate days, as in the folk-tale.

I do not think that Lancelot was ab origine the hero of a variant of this popular and widely-spread folk-tale.

The hero of an Egyptian folk tale slays a "deathless snake" by cutting it in two parts and putting sand between the parts.

A modern folk-tale from Cashmere tells of a Brahmin who prayed to know something of the state of the departed.

Or are all you Mentorians so gutless that you believe any half-baked folk tale the Lhari pass off on you?

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