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A story or legend of people or folklore and tradition, especially as part of the people's tradition.

Traditionally passed beliefs and stories, especially beliefs and stories deemed false or superstitious

Folktales are also derived from verbal traditions and are inherited by "folk legend" which conveys them. Because folktales may finally appear, the term "folktales" is often used interchangeably with fables. Folktales are centered on people, but are often different from fables in that they have distortions. For example, stories such as Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, American cowboy Pecos Bill attacked tornadoes and showed surprising power to people and animals. Just as people are in every country, each country has its own fork story. Even in countries far from China and France, there may be traditional stories very similar. For example, the story of "Stone Soup" is a story from all over the world.

Heroic myths include traditional elements, folklore, and novels. For example, legend of Argo's hero is very complicated, such as elements of folk tales and novels. Such a Greek fleet departing from Orlis, a plot of Trojan horse cycles such as cretan explorers or the death of Theosus' sSils may belong to the Minos - Messinie world tradition Hmm. On the other hand, the events described by Iliad may be due to Homer's creativity rather than a true tradition. Even heroes like Achilles, Hector, Diomedes are fictitious, despite being based on legendary prototypes. Odyssey is a representative example of a large number of folktales who entered the epic. All of the most famous Greek heroic myths, such as Heracles' work and Perseus, Cadmus, Pelops and Adventures of Edps, all rely on interest in folktales. It is not a legend