2) §8. Folk-Tales. XXXII. Non-English Writings II. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...This quick facility for noting resemblances, and the play of humour, has given us a body of folk-tale and fable not surpassed by any country in the world, folk-tale...

3) Beowulf. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Robert Cotton. The materials for the poem are derived mainly from Scandinavian history, folk tale, and mythology. Its narrative consists of two parts: The first relates...

4) §23. Significance to Modern American Literature of Amerind Modes. XXXII. Non-English Writings II. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...be known to us only by tradition and history. The permanent worth of song and epic, folk-tale and drama, aside from its intrinsic literary quality, is its revelation...

5) Introductory Note. Shakespeare, William. 1909-14. The Tempest. The Harvard Classics
...Stratford-on-Avon. 1 The main thread of the plot of the drama seems to have been some folk-tale of a magician and his daughter, which, in the precise form in which...

6) Notes to Rip Van Winkle By Washington Irving. Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story
...is Irving s masterpiece in fiction. Although it seems to have been suggested by a German folk-tale, Irving made the legend his own by a fuller appreciation of its...

7) Ruddock. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...the ruddock would With charitable bill bring thee all these."Cymbeline, iv. 2.So also in the folk tale of The Babes in the Wood- 3 "The Robins so red Fresh strawberry-leaves...

8) §7. "Huon of Bordeaux". XIV. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century. II. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...whether because it represents a fourteenth or even thirteenth century story, or because some folk-tale influence had been at work upon it. Huon himself is apt to...

9) Notes to The Steadfast Tin Soldier By Hans Christian Andersen. Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story
...it is real also, however fanciful the invention. It has the childlike ingenuousness of the folk-tale, so rarely caught by writers who have forgotten how they felt...

10) Judith. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...is mocked. Texts of Judith exist in several ancient languages. The book might be based on a folk-tale and was probably composed in Palestine during the Hasmonean...