| Overall, the acts and scenes comprising the narrative of folktales of this type are roughly equal in length. |
| Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
| The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths. |
| The roots of my thinking are a tangled maze of myths, folktales, legends, fairy stories. |
| Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. |
| The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence. |
