Folktales Quotes
Folktales Quote of the day
The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.
A beverage of leisure is a serious business, ” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.
Listen, listen with your eyes, and your lips.Listen with your skin, and your blood.Can you hear us, at the edges?
There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.