New England Bean-Pot American Folk Stories To Read And To Tell HC 1948

Sometimes smart folk make up a strange tale or a funny Story and say it happened to them or someone they know or knew, and it becomes folklore, a folk tale.

American Folk Tales by State for older children To Read And To Tell by M. A Jagendorf   b/w illustrator Donald McKay.

 272 pages  8.2 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches has library marks Hard Cover Publisher: E.M. Hale & Co., Eau Claire, WI Publication Date: 1948

Book Condition: Very Good No Jacket Edition:

EXCITING TALES, good yarns, merry jokes, clever hoaxes, ghost stories, spiced anecdotes are experiences of adventure and pleasure in the life of folk, people—you and l.

When they are told over and over again for many years, they become folklore.

Folklore, folk tales, may begin with something that really happened to some folk in the country, on the farm, woods, or fields. Or it may be something that happened in the city or on the sea—anywhere. Again, folklore and folk tales grow out of incidents in nature, or historical facts; incidents about animals, or even about objects like tables or houses or trees.

These tales spread—they are told to friends and they in turn tell them to their friends. As they are repeated by different folk they change a little, for each one tells them in a different way, often adding something to them. In the spreading to different parts of the land each locality often claims them as their own.