Tag: folktales

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Uniquely Helps Us REMEMBER

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Uniquely Helps Us REMEMBER

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    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Oral Tradition – Plus Let Me Tell You Another Story…

    Oral Tradition – Plus Let Me Tell You Another Story…

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    A little mouse told me?  Well, not exactly…but somebody did! [This is longer than my other A-Z posts…the musings plus the story…grab a cuppa maybe?!] By definition, personal stories (that is, first-person personal-experience narratives) are not transmitted to the teller through an oral tradition: they happened to the teller. So,…