teaching folktales for our children is critical. Children should be exposed to several kinds of folktales to understand about the past and express themselves through good language. Here is a PowerPoint presentation about "Folktales".

1. FOLKTALES
Prepared by:Ruba Al-Berjaoui

2. THE OUTLINE (1ST PART)
1. Folklore (Definitions ,Importance ,Directions)
2. Importance of Folk literature.
3. Definition and History of Folktales.(diffusion)
4. Theories of Folktales’ origin.
5. The remnants preserved through folktales.
6. The influence of folktales on children.
7. Types of folktales

3. FOLKLORE IS KNOWN AS THE “MIRROR OF
PEOPLE.”
 It reveals their efforts to explain a phenomenon in
life.
 It expresses their interpretation of relationships
among human beings.

4. FOLKLORE:
 Records the mores and the cultural patterns of a
society form.
 Gives expressions to deep and universal emotions.

5. FOLKLORE MAY INCLUDE:
songs
dances
Old
tales
Hero
tales
rituals

6. Folklorists agree that a folktale is
created by most people at an
early level of civilization.
And that was historically proven
by the past rituals,superstitions,or
events.

7. FOR WHOM WAS THE FOLK LITERATURE DIRECTED
TO IN EARLY TIMES?

8. BUT what has
changed now?!

9.  NOW, the folk literature is being read, studied, and
analyzed by children.
Nowadays, folktales are not only being told for
entertainment not also for information.

10. WHY DO CHILDREN LIKE LISTENING TO
FOLKTALES?
-Satisfies their needs.
-defines specified conclusions that can be used in
real life.

11. HISTORY OF FOLKTALES:
 In 1697,Charles Perrault collected and published
some famous folktales in France.
(eg: Tales of mother goose)
They developed in the eighteenth century.
In 1894,Joseph Jacobs adapted and compiled a
new series of books with folk and fairy tales.
Then in 1889 until 1910, a series of fairy books
containing folktales from around the world was
published in England by Andrew Lang.

12. A FOLKTALE IS:
A traditional literature that was
passed down orally from one
generation to another.
USUALLY, its author is unkown.

13. THEORIES OF FOLKTALES’ ORIGIN:
Monogenesis
(single origin)
Polygenesis
(many origins)
The recent studies mention that there is a
diffusion of folktales because of immigrations
and contacting different cultures.

14. THE REMNANTS PRESERVED THROUGH
FOLKTALES:
 Some scholars were convinced that folktales preserve
the remnants of nature myths and traditional stories.
 Folktales can present allegories and symbolism.

15. SOME FOLKTALES HAD ORIGINATED FROM
DREAMS AND UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONS.
Psychoanalytic writers have studied those objects
or ideas which appear frequently in “fairy tales”.
They asserted that they are symbols of emotional
fantasies which people may experince in dreams.

16. So, the fatal questions,impossible tasks,and discomforts
help us in generating more and more folktales.

17. FOLKTALES:
 Teach kids morals.(kindness,modesty,truthfulness,
courage and so many).
 Remind the elders of what is appropriate and
proper.
 Put a stamp of approval upon certain values held
by a group.

18.  All the previous mentioned roles help communities in
explaining the ethical significance and the emotional
satisfaction they still hold for today and will hold for
tomorrow.

19. Psychologically ,folktales
satisfy some humanity’s
basic emotional needs
Ethically: they reinforce
some major social
qualities.

20. TYPES OF FOLKTALES:
1. Cumulative tales(repetional tales)(chain
tales)
2. Talking beast tales
3. The drolls or humorous tales
4. Realistic tales
5. Religious tales
6. Tales of magic
7. Romances

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