What are the 5 types of folklore?

Genres of Folklore

Material culture:folk art, vernacular architecture, textiles, modified mass-produced objects.
Music: traditional, folk, and world music.
Narrative: legends, urban legends, fairy tales, folk tales, personal experience narratives.
Verbal art: jokes, proverbs, word games.

What stories are folklore?

Folklore refers to the tales people tell – folk stories, fairy tales, “tall tales,” and even urban legends. Folklore is typically passed down by word of mouth, rather than being written in books (although sometimes people write down collections of folklore in order to preserve the stories of a particular community).

What are folklore folktales examples?

Some examples of folk tales include: “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” – a British story about a girl who breaks into the house of the three bears, tries everything out, and gets scared away. “The White Elephant” – a folktale from Asia about how the kind white elephant is treated kindly.

What is the oldest of all folktales?

Seán O’Sullivan showed me an international folktale known in Irish as ‘Ao Mhic an Bhradáin agus Ó Mhic an Bhradáin’ (‘Hugh and O, the Two Sons of the Salmon’) . . . It was the earliest known folktale, first discovered on Egyptian papyrus 3,250 years before.

What are 3 different types of folklore?

Following are the major forms of folklore:

Folk song.
Folk tales.
Fairy Tales.
Tall tales.
Ballads.
Folk dramas.
Proverbs, charms, and riddles.
Use of Folklore by Children.

What is the oldest fairytale?

Analysis showed Beauty And The Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old. And a folk tale called The Smith And The Devil, about a blacksmith selling his soul in a pact with the Devil in order to gain supernatural abilities, was estimated to go back 6,000 years to the Bronze Age.

What is the oldest story?

The Epic of Gilgamesh. What, When and Where: An epic poem concerning or (very) loosely based on the historical King Gilgamesh, who ruled Sumerian Uruk (modern day Iraq) in 2700 BC. This is the oldest written story, period, anywhere, known to exist.