What are folktales?

What are folktales? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of folktale
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Sotho literature is dominated by folktales and praise poems.
The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence.
The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths.
A sparse collection of proverbs, folktales and moral codes combined with Buddhist principles dispense a few rules governing social behaviour.
Overall, the acts and scenes comprising the narrative of folktales of this type are roughly equal in length.
These publications launched DeCora into a career illustrating books of Indian folktales for children.

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