New Hampshire Theatre Project is going traditional, colorfully so, with history, core and cultural values, and character of all kinds wrapped in curious, interesting and wonderful tales. The Fourth ...

What makes a folk tale a folk tale? As a form of folklore, it’s distinct from an urban legend, which spreads virally, rests on the illusory authority of a friend of a friend, and is usually false, ...

The dead of winter is one of the best times to break out your favorite creepy American folk tales. What else is there to do? It's too cold to venture outside for anything more than the bare ...

Jul. 14—Spectators were treated to a trove of traditional stories Wednesday during Stories on the Square, told by Cherokee storyteller Sammy Still. This event took place at the Cherokee National Peace ...

Having English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and African roots, Appalachian music has been a cherished pastime throughout the Smoky Mountain region for centuries. And while the earliest Appalachian settlers ...

‘It seems that mankind is born with an avid appetite for details of other lives beside the one his own small span of corporeal existence grants to him,” the late folklorist Sybil Marshall writes by ...

Have you heard the story of the good sister and the bad sister? When they leave home, the good sister is kind to the people and animals she meets, and is rewarded in gold. The bad sister is haughty ...

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, teacher, director and story collector Najla Jraissaty Khoury founded a traveling theater company in the hopes of preserving oral folk tales of older ...

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along. From “Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America.”Credit...Liniers Supported by By ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. There once was a woman named Ka Vang who had hair like polished black granite and a love for stories and many things ...

I still remember the first time I walked down the steps into the crowded Wise Owl Coffeehouse in the basement of the Calhoun Street YMCA on the University of Cincinnati campus. It was a Sunday night, ...