Example sentences for: folktales

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

  • Duendes are very common in Chicano folktales, and many people still believe in them.

  • Wardropper states, “Pedro de Urdemalas is a shadowy, even elusive, figure in the oral tradition of Spanish folktales.

  • 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.

  • Many of the folktales, legends, and cuentos (stories) collected in New Mexico by Aurelio Espinosa, Juan Bautista Rael, and R. D. Jameson (Robe 1980) are about witches and witchcraft.

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


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