Their memory also survives in folk tales, which are full of allusions to giants, dwarfs, goblins, and other supernatural beings.
The ogres, who sometimes figure in folk tales, are giants with a taste for human flesh.
Some of these stories are discussed in Jacobs's Jewish Diffusion of Folk Tales (as above).
Edited by: Elmer Turnage FOLK LORE: FOLK TALES (negro) "I sho members when de soldiers come home from de war.
Those were the days when Max Müller's solar and lunar explanations of myths were in the ascendant and Mr. Baring-Gould applied his views to the explanation of folk tales.
This entirely undermined the mythological theories of the Grimms and Max Müller and considerably reduced the importance of folk tales as throwing light upon the primitive psychology of the Aryan peoples.
He drew the conclusion that the original composers of fairy tales were themselves in a savage state of mind and, by inference, explained the similarities found in folk tales as due to the similarity of the states of minds.
Hunt, adds to our indebtedness to such writers by her recently published and delightful Folk Tales of Breffny from which "McCarthy of Connacht" has been taken for these pages.
It has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful and appealing of folk tales.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folk tales" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
