folk tales

In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a "great beast" in sea, loch, or river.

In Europe there are many folk tales of dead mothers who return to avenge themselves on the cruel fathers of neglected children.

If such were our rule, we should have to forbid the most beautiful works in our literature, and also our folk-tales.

It is the condition of development; it is what makes a science of Folk-tales both necessary and possible.

The legends and folk-tales so far considered are of a strictly Jewish character, whatever their origin.