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Discover how legends, folktales and stories told out loud carry a community's history to the next generation.
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Passing stories down by telling them out loud is called oral tradition.
Long before books were common, how did most folktales travel from grandparents to grandchildren?
In West Africa, what job did a griot do for the community?
A griot in the old empire of Mali kept track of which facts for every family?
Griots learned their community's history by reading it out of old books.
In the Ashanti tale from Ghana, what did Anansi want to buy from the sky god Nyame?
In that tale, what price did Nyame ask Anansi to pay for the stories?
After Anansi paid the price, people began calling the sky god's tales Anansi stories.
Anansi appears in Ashanti stories as which animal?
How did Anansi stories from Ghana reach the Caribbean and the American South?
In the Japanese folktale, where did the old couple find the baby Momotaro?
What did Momotaro share with the dog, the monkey and the pheasant so they would join him?
How does the tale of Momotaro end after the fight on Ogre Island?
In the Comanche legend, the girl She-Who-Is-Alone burned a doll made of gold and jewels.
After the girl scattered the ashes on the hills, what covered the ground the next morning?
A story told to explain how something in nature first came to be is called what?
In the American folk song, what work did John Henry do?
How does the ballad of John Henry end after his race against the steam drill?
People first learned the story of John Henry by reading it in newspapers.
Stories about a hero doing impossible things, like out-hammering a machine, are called what?
Johnny Appleseed was a nickname for a real man. What was his real name?
What did John Chapman actually do as he traveled west into Ohio and Indiana?
Before the Hawaiian language was written down, how did Hawaiians keep their history?
A Hawaiian chant that names a chief's ancestors is keeping a record of what?
Aboriginal Australian songlines are songs that help people remember what?
Songlines are printed on paper maps and handed out to travelers.
On a Lakota winter count, what did each painted picture stand for?
What did the Lakota first paint their winter counts on?
Who decided which event went on a Lakota winter count each year?
What do the carved figures on a Northwest Coast totem pole often show?
A totem pole can record a family's history without using any written words.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm heard German tales told aloud. What did they do next?
Which famous tale did the Grimm brothers write down in their first collection?
Zora Neale Hurston traveled around Florida in the 1930s. What was she collecting?
A book that tells the true story of one real person's life is called what?
How is a tall tale different from a biography of the same person?
Ben records his grandmother telling how she moved to a new country. What is he collecting?
Why do families record older relatives telling their memories?
Folktales can show what a community cares about, even when the events in them never happened.
Two villages tell the same old folktale a little differently. What best explains the difference?
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