These publications launched DeCora into a career illustrating books of Indian folktales for children. |
The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures. |
The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths. |
The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence. |
Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. |