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
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
It seemed fitting that planning a trip around a centuries-old folk tale was more an act of creative interpretation than a strict adherence to a single text.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023
Del Toro won Oscars as a director and producer of “The Shape of Water,” and now he’ll add a third for his agreeably weird, dark take on Carlo Collodi’s 19th century folk tale.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023
I have founded him 'who sold tillage, and house, and goods,' upon something in 'The Red Pony,' a folk tale in Mr. Larminie's 'West Irish Folk Tales.'
From The Wind Among the Reeds by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
