The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time ...

DON’T tell the Brothers Grimm, but storyteller Leslie Perry has a bone to pick with the classic tale of poor little Cinderella. “She’s a wimp!” he exclaims, pointing out the passivity of the main ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For centuries, tales of birds and their songs have offered deep wisdom to cultures ...

Fear old women in fairy tales. For as long as people have been telling stories, crones have been scaring the wits out of children. But why does the face of evil so often belong to an old woman?

“Every Tongue Got to Confess,” a volume of folk tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston as part of an anthropological research project from 1927 to 1931, will likely be eagerly devoured by Hurston’s ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

The dead of winter is one of the best times to break out your favorite creepy American folk tales. What else is there to do? It's too cold to venture outside for anything more than the bare ...