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Favorite Folktales?
What are your favorite folktales with female protagonists?
I'll accept anything with unknown author as "Folktale" whether it's a parable, a legend, a saga, a fairytale, or whatever.
I guess I don't mind knowing about works with known authors too provided you cite the author's name for reference.
But I'm really looking for the kinds of patterns that primarily manifest when a story has gotten told and retold and reshaped and retold over time, rather than a single person's idea of a good story, however grounded in tradition it may be.
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I'll accept anything with unknown author as "Folktale" whether it's a parable, a legend, a saga, a fairytale, or whatever.
I guess I don't mind knowing about works with known authors too provided you cite the author's name for reference.
But I'm really looking for the kinds of patterns that primarily manifest when a story has gotten told and retold and reshaped and retold over time, rather than a single person's idea of a good story, however grounded in tradition it may be.
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Er, that's Little Red Riding Hood.
Snow White is the one with the wicked stepmother and a bunch of dwarves.
I'm fond of the Goose Girl, yes.
Oooh, Fairy Midwife, I'll have to read those, thank you! And Yes, once I track the patterns, I'll notice them in new stories too, but that's not this particular project :)
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