A Folk Tale, an 1854 ballet by Danish choreographer August Bournonville
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In 2001 Fai Sam Ang, the predominant movie director decided to create the well-known Khmer folktale story: Kone Puos Keng Kong(The Snake King's Child).
Betty Stogs was a Cornish woman in a folktale.
Jesika Agambila, an intellectual, wrote a major collection of Frafra folktales under the title Solma: Tales from Northern Ghana.
At the University of Kristiania Gaston Paris also held a lecture about the two folktale collectors, Asbjørnsen and Moe, which he believed to be, besides the Grimm Brothers, the best re-tellers of the genre.
The folktale explains that cows and rats ate the book, so, in the words of Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, "no text was equal to the task of representing a culture as rich as that of the Hmong."
Janghwa Hongryeon jeon (literally The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon) is a Joseon-era Korean folktale.
Ashoka and Kalinga Ashok (son of Vindusara) wanted to annex Kalinga with Magadha for commercial reasons, although some folktales indicates that he invaded for personal reason, but primarily commercial reason is most prominent.
The Ainu had a strong oral culture, and were well known for reciting folktales and epics in prose.
Legende sau basmele românilor ("Legends or Romanian Fairy-tales") is a collection, in several volumes, of Romanian folktales, first published in 1874 by Petre Ispirescu.
Based on the folktale "Otesánek" by K.J. Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.
-->Cloud Tea Monkeys (1999), a children's picture book written by Peet and his wife, illustrated by Alan Marks, is set in the Himalayas and based on a Chinese folktale.
Ben Stevenson, Artistic Director of Texas Ballet Theater, has choreographed many narrative ballets with lavish sets and costumes in recent years, including Cleopatra, Dracula, and The Snow Maiden, based on a Russian folktale, as well as his own versions of narrative story ballets.
Some Jewish scholars, including Dov Noy, a professor of folklore at Hebrew University and founder of the Israel Folktale Archives, and Howard Schwartz, Jewish anthologist and English professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, have discussed traditional Jewish stories as "mythology".
The Golden Arm is a folktale most famously used by Mark Twain on how to tell a story.
"Unstable Fables" irreverently and unfaithfully retell classic fairy tales, folktale, and fables with a modern twist.