Folklore

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Folklore
by Carol Phaling 2006
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The Fairy CallFrom "Lady Cottington's Pressed
Fairy Book"

• A spell for summoning the fairies
• Sit where the cat sits.
• Cross your toes.
• Close your eyes.
• And smell a rose.
• Then say under your breath
• "I believe in fairies, sure as death."
• Gadflykins! Gladtrypins!
• Gutterpuss and Cass!
• Come to me fairily
• Each lad and lass!

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Folklore
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Folklore

• Folklore refers to the beliefs, manners, customs,
  observations, superstitions, tales, ballads,
  proverbs, music, and art of an earlier time.
• Folk literature refers to stories with uncertain
  origins that were handed down orally from one
  storyteller to another.
• Folklore is comprised of animal tales, fables,
  folktales, humorous tales, legends, myths, tall
  tales, origination tales, and traditional fairy
  tales.

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Fairy Tale

• A fanciful story written for, or told to,
  children.
• Fairy tales do not have to be stories about
  fairies.
• Usually contains at least one supernatural
  element (magic, dragons, elves, ghosts,
  hobgoblins, witches, etc.).
• Most fairy tales are based on the traditional
  folklore of a specific culture.
• Until they were written down, they were part of a
  cultures oral tradition.

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Fiction or Nonfiction???

• Fairy tales are located in the nonfiction section
  of the library.
• They are located in the 300s because they are a
  social science.
• Fairy tales, folk tales, and tall tales are
  traditional literature, stories that are so old,
  they have no known author.
• Easy books are in alpha order by author.  With no
  author, they wont really cant go in the easy
  section. 

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Dewey Folklore
300 Social Science (Government, Police, Law,
Education) 390 Customs, etiquette, folklore 398
Folklore 398.2 Folklore as literature 398.21
Fairy Tales - tales and lore of paranatural
beings of human and semi human form (witches,
centaurs, fairies, gods, goddesses, mermaids,
vampires, wizards). 398.22 Legends and Myths
(also 292) heroes, kings, ordinary
people. 398.24 Tales and lore of plants and
animals (fables) 398.25 Ghost stories