folk tales
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She recalls other witches from folk tales like Baba Yaga, frightening characters but also, she says, “women possessing an innocence that had been eroded over the years by the harshness of life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In the absence of her sober recordings, many observers turned again to the fantastic folk tales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Topics covered by the series range from forgotten characters to intriguing folk tales, such as the "missing" bugler of Kirkstead Abbey.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Far from being confined to folk tales, wolves in Europe are startlingly plentiful today.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2024
Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
