Folk Tales, Legends and Myths

It consists of myths, legends, folktales, and anecdotes.

a short story, fable, or folktale featuring love and adventure

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally.

Part of this education involved learning a collection of sayings, called huehuetlatolli ("The sayings of the old"), that embodied the Aztecs' ideals.

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

An urban legend (sometimes modern legend or urban myth) is a form of folklore consisting of unusual, humorous, or frightening stories that circulate as true accounts but are typically unverified or apocryphal.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, told as if it were true and factual.

A pourquoi story (French pronunciation: [puʁ.kwa] ; "pourquoi" meaning "why" in French) also called an origin story, pourquoi tale, or an etiological tale, is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is, for example why snakes have no legs or why tigers have striped coats.

A dilemma story (also dilemma tale) is an African story-form intended to provoke discussion.

Traditional stories, or stories about traditions, differ from both fiction and nonfiction in that the importance of transmitting the story's worldview is generally understood to transcend an immediate need to establish its categorization as imaginary or factual.

Moʻolelo are the narrative stories of the Native Hawaiian people.

Spider tales are found extensively throughout West Africa, but the Anansi tales from Ghana are seen to be the origin of these stories and are among the best-known, as Anansi's name comes from the word in the Akan language for 'spider'.

tales and popular myths of the Mongols (included in Buryats) of north-east Asia

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "of the Birth", "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.