Example sentences for: folktales

How can you use “folktales” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He collected folktales, folk songs, proverbs, superstitions, riddles, children’s games, and much more.

  • Besides publishing over sixty articles in academic journals, he was editor of the Journal of American Folklore from 1968 to 1973 and published Folktales of Mexico in 1970 and A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border in 1976.

  • In addition, he collected folktales, proverbs, ballads, and other lore, which were published in the California Folklore Quarterly in the 1940s.

  • In folktales from New Mexico, they often appear as balls of fire flying across the sky.

  • She has collected oral histories and folktales from elderly Mexican Americans, many of them born in Arizona or Sonora, Mexico.


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