folk tale
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But no: this has become a subgenre of its own, a kind of folk tale the news loves to tell.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2025
In “Boléro — The Legend of Anchin and Kiyohime,” the director and choreographer Hanayagi Genkuro uses Ravel’s score to retell the folk tale “The Legend of Dojoji.”
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024
The lavish folk tale draws from the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the 1940 cartoon film "Pinocchio," about a puppet wishing to become a real boy.
From Reuters • Nov. 20, 2023
Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale won this year’s Humanitas prize for family feature film for writing “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” a reworking of the classic folk tale about a toy that comes to life.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Esther was discovered sitting with the other girls in a group surrounding Polly, who had been reading aloud an old folk tale while the others worked at their various hand crafts.
From The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill by Vandercook, Margaret
