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FOLKLORE: CULTURAL FOLKTALES

A folktale (also spelled folk tale) is a story or legend forming part of an oral tradition. Folktales are generally
passed down from one generation to another and often take on the characteristics of the time and place in
which they are told. Folktales speak to universal and timeless themes, and help folks make sense of their
existence or cope with the world in which they live.

→ The term was based on two words: Folk: which means people.
Lore: which means knowledge, to know.

Thus, the combination of the two words, means traditional knowledge of a people.

→ Some of the characteristics of folklore are:

Anonymous origin: Many have defined that an

element to be considered folkloric must have
anonymous origin, but this characteristic has been
questioned by scholars.

Oral transmission: The knowledge that is part of

the folklore of a people has to be transmitted orally.

Collective popularization: It has to become

popular in the culture of a people.

Spontaneous appearance: The elements of culture that form folklore appear spontaneously.

Question 1
Now that you already know what is Folk Tales, match the tale to Its correspondent name:

A. BigFoot (USA folktale) ( )Also known as Mãe D'Água, she is a mermaid,

B. Iara that is, she has the torso of a woman and the tail of
C. Curupira a fish. As in other legends of mermaids, it is very
D. Saci-Pererê beautiful and its singing attracts men in order to
E. Mula sem Cabeça murder them.
F. Boitatá
( )A giant ape-man reportedly being 7 feet to 10
( )Is a woman who was cursed after having an feet tall, weighing more than 500 pounds of brutish
affair with a priest. As a consequence, it was muscle, and having a coat of dark brown or reddish
transformed into a noisy quadruped that gallops hair, has been spotted regularly but never officially
with fire. in forests first in the Pacific Northwest and then
throughout the United States.
( )He always has his pipe and a red cap. He appears
as a black boy who has only one leg and plays ( )It is a relentless protector of fauna and flora that
pranks. chases and kills everyone who attacks it. It appears
in the form of a boy with red hair and with his feet
( ) It represents a fire snake, considered the turned back.
guardian of fauna and flora, relentless in hunting
those who disrespect nature.