oral tradition and fairy tales
Oral tradition refers to the sum of folklore that is verbally communicated as well as to the process of transmission, by which a given item of folklore is learned, recreated, and disseminated. In societies without writing, oral tradition accounts for much of the cultural transmission from one generation to the next. In societies with writing, it has been heavily influenced but seldom entirely replaced by print culture as a mode of communication. Anonymous in origin and transmitted through face-to-face communication, fairy tales deriving from oral tradition exist in multiple, standardized versions and exhibit patterns of stability and variation over time and space.... ...
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