| The roots of my thinking are a tangled maze of myths, folktales, legends, fairy stories. |
| It is a strange grafting of newer Buddhistic teaching with obviously older material that derived from a tradition of moralizing folktales. |
| Overall, the acts and scenes comprising the narrative of folktales of this type are roughly equal in length. |
| 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. |
| The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures. |
